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Persistent Organic Pollutants Regulation

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs is amending the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Regulation to address PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), which are highly persistent, bioaccumulative chemicals with potential long-term environmental and human health impacts. The department is conducting consultations on regulatory amendments and risk assessments for substances proposed as POPs, with changes expected in 2026.

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2026

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18 Mar 2026 | Consultation (open) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs linked

Consultation on potential amendments to the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Regulation 2026 — consultation opened

We are seeking your views on a number of proposed changes to Annex I of the assimilated Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Regulation (EU) 2019/1021, including new additions to a list of substances that are prohibited from manufacture, use, and placing …

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9 Mar 2026 | Policy paper Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs linked

Call for comments on a revised draft risk profile of a substance proposed as a persistent organic pollutant (POP) 2026

Call for comments on a draft risk profile for polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans and mixed polybrominated/chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans, excluding polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans.

▤ View document · ↗ GOV.UK · ↓ Further background information: revised draft r…
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↓ Draft revised risk profile PBDD/Fs and PBCDD/Fs (55pp) ↓ Additional information relating to the draft risk profile f… (12pp)

2025

6 events
20 May 2025 | Policy paper Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs linked

Call for comments: draft risk profile of a substance proposed as a persistent organic pollutant (POP) 2025

Requesting comments on a draft risk profile for polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (including mixed polybrominated/chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans).

▤ View document · ↗ GOV.UK · ↓ Draft risk profile (covering Annex E of the Sto…
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↓ Draft risk profile for PXDD/Fs (51pp) ↓ Draft risk profile - additional information (10pp)
24 Apr 2025 | Impact assessment Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs linked

Request for information on substances proposed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) 2024

Request for information to feed into a draft Risk Profile, and draft Risk Management Evaluation for 2 chemical substances proposed as POPs to the UN’s POP Review Committee.

▤ View document · ↗ GOV.UK · ↓ Responses received and government response (PXD…
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↓ Responses recieved and government response (MCCPs) ↓ Request to inform the substance Risk Profile (Annex E of th… ↓ Request for more information for Risk Management Evaluation… ↓ Defra's research privacy notice

2024

5 events
20 May 2024 | Policy paper Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs linked

Call for comments: draft risk management evaluation of a substance proposed as a persistent organic pollutant (POP) 2024

Requesting comments on a draft risk management evaluation for chlorpyrifos, a chemical substance proposed as a POP to the UN’s Stockholm Convention.

▤ View document · ↗ GOV.UK · ↓ Risk management evaluation (covering Annex F of…
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↓ Chlorpyrifos draft risk management evaluation (39pp) ↓ Chlorpyrifos draft risk management evaluation – additional … (17pp) ↓ Chlorpyrifos draft risk management evaluation – additional … ↓ Privacy notice

2023

17 events
15 Aug 2023 | Impact assessment Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs linked

Request for information on substances proposed as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) 2022

Requesting information to feed into draft Risk Profiles and draft Risk Management Evaluations for 3 chemical substances proposed as POPs to the UN’s POP Review Committee

▤ View document · ↗ GOV.UK · ↓ Summary of responses and government response
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↓ Request to inform substance Risk Management Evaluations (An… ↓ Request to inform substance Risk Profiles (Annex E of the S… ↓ Information submission form: chlorinated paraffins (C14 to … ↓ Information submission form: long-chain perfluorocarboxylic… ↓ Information submission form: chlorpyrifos (Annex E of the S… ↓ Privacy notice
27 Apr 2023 | Consultation (closed) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs linked

Consultation on potential amendments to the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Regulation 2023 — consultation closed

We are seeking your views on a number of proposed changes to the retained Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 as amended by the Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 and the Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022) (“POPs …

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2 Mar 2023 | Consultation (closed) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs linked

Consultation on potential amendments to the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Regulation 2023 — consultation opened

We are seeking your views on a number of proposed changes to the retained Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 as amended by the Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 and the Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022) (“POPs …

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28 Feb 2023 | Impact assessment Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs linked

Request for information about risk management evaluations of substances proposed as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Collecting information for risk management evaluations for 2 chemical substances proposed as POPs to the UN’s POP Review Committee.

▤ View document · ↗ GOV.UK · ↓ Request for information on risk management eval…
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↓ Summary of responses and government response ↓ Privacy Notice
28 Feb 2023 | Policy paper Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs linked

Call for comments: draft evaluations of substances proposed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

Requesting comments on draft risk profiles and risk management evaluations for 5 chemical substances proposed as POPs to the UN’s POP review committee.

▤ View document · ↗ GOV.UK · ↓ Risk profiles (covering Annex E of the Stockhol…
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↓ Risk management evaluation (covering Annex F of the Stockh… ↓ Privacy Notice ↓ Chlorinated paraffins draft risk profile (85pp) ↓ Chlorinated paraffins draft risk profile – additional infor… (98pp) ↓ Chlorpyrifos draft risk profile (52pp) ↓ Chlorpyrifos draft risk profile – additional information (33pp) ↓ Dechlorane plus draft risk management evaluation (30pp) ↓ Dechlorane Plus draft risk management evaluation – addition… (28pp) ↓ Long-chain PFCAs draft risk profile (54pp) ↓ Long-chain PFCAs – environmental concentrations database ↓ Long-chain PFCAs draft risk profile - additional information (83pp) ↓ UV-328 draft risk management evaluation (34pp)

2022

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2021

6 events
7 Jun 2021 | Policy paper Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs linked

Chlorinated paraffins with carbon chain lengths in the range C14-17

Draft proposal to list chlorinated paraffins with carbon chain lengths in the range C14-17 and chlorination levels ≥45% chlorine by weight as a persistent organic pollutant (POP).

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↓ Annex D: summary of UK proposal to list Chlorinated paraffi… ↓ Annex D: Support document for UK Proposal to list Chlorinat… (118pp) ↓ Response documents A to D ↓ Response documents E to H ↓ Response documents I to Z ↓ January 2021: Proposal to list “Chlorinated paraffins with … (49pp) ↓ Privacy notice
14 May 2021 | Consultation (closed) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs linked

Draft update to the UK National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) — consultation closed

We want to know what you think about our 2021 draft update to the UK National Implementation Plan (NIP) for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). The update covers “new POPs”, which have been more recently listed under …

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19 Mar 2021 | Consultation (closed) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs linked

Draft update to the UK National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) — consultation opened

We want to know what you think about our 2021 draft update to the UK National Implementation Plan (NIP) for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). The update covers “new POPs”, which have been more recently listed under …

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2018

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2017

6 events
1 Dec 2017 | Consultation outcome Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland) Department of Health and Social Care Department of Health (Northern Ireland) Scottish Government Welsh Government linked

Proposed Control of Mercury (Enforcement) Regulations 2017

Seeking views on how we will enforce controls on mercury in the UK.

▤ View document · ↗ GOV.UK · ↓ Summary of responses and government response (27pp)
1 Dec 2017 | Consultation outcome Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland) Department of Health and Social Care Department of Health (Northern Ireland) Scottish Government Welsh Government linked

Proposed Control of Mercury (Enforcement) Regulations 2017 — outcome published

Seeking views on how we will enforce controls on mercury in the UK.

▤ View document · ↗ GOV.UK · ↓ Summary of responses and government response (27pp)
21 Nov 2017 | Consultation outcome Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland) Department of Health and Social Care Department of Health (Northern Ireland) Scottish Government Welsh Government linked

Proposed Control of Mercury (Enforcement) Regulations 2017 — consultation closed

Seeking views on how we will enforce controls on mercury in the UK.

▤ View document · ↗ GOV.UK · ↓ Summary of responses and government response (27pp)
23 Oct 2017 | Consultation outcome Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland) Department of Health and Social Care Department of Health (Northern Ireland) Scottish Government Welsh Government linked

Proposed Control of Mercury (Enforcement) Regulations 2017 — consultation opened

Seeking views on how we will enforce controls on mercury in the UK.

▤ View document · ↗ GOV.UK · ↓ Summary of responses and government response (27pp)