Decision SC-5/3: Listing of technical endosulfan and its related isomers The Conference of the Parties, having considered the risk profile and the risk management evaluation for endosulfan (technical endosulfan, its related isomers, and endosulfan sulfate) as transmitted by the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee, taking note of the recommendation by the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee to include technical endosulfan, its related isomers, and endosulfan sulfate in Annex A to the Convention, with specific exemptions, 1. Decides to amend Part I of Annex A to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants to include therein technical endosulfan and its related isomers, with specific exemptions for production, as permitted for the Parties listed in the Register of Specific Exemptions, and/or for use in crop-pest complexes, as listed in accordance with the provisions of a new Part VI of the Annex, by inserting the following row:
| Chemical | Activity | Specific exemption | | --- | --- | --- | | Technical endosulfan* (CAS No: 115-29-7) and its related isomers* (CAS No: 959-98-8 and CAS No: 33213-65-9) | Production | As permitted for the Parties listed in the Register | | | Use | Crop-pest complexes, as listed in accordance with the provisions of Part VI of this Annex | 2. Decides to insert a new note v) in Part I of Annex A, to read as follows: Technical endosulfan (CAS No: 115-29-7) and its related isomers (CAS No: 959-98-8 and CAS No: 33213-65-9) and endosulfan sulfate (CAS No: 1031-07-8) were evaluated and identified as persistent organic pollutants.
3. Decides to insert a new Part VI in Annex A, to read as follows:
PART VI Technical endosulfan and its related isomers (endosulfan) The production and use of endosulfan shall be eliminated except for Parties that have notified the Secretariat of their intention to produce and/or use it in accordance with Article 4 of the Convention. Specific exemptions may be granted for the use of endosulfan on the following crop-pest complexes:
| Crop | Pest | | --- | --- | | Apple | Aphids | | Arhar, gram | Aphids, caterpillars, pea semilooper, pod borer | | Bean, cowpea | Aphids, leaf miner, whitefly | | Chili, onion, potato | Aphids, jassids | | Coffee | Coffee berry borer, stem borers | | Cotton | Aphids, bollworm, jassids, leaf rollers, pink bollworm, thrips, whitefly | | Eggplant, okra | Aphids, diamondback moth, jassids, shoot and fruit borer | | Groundnut | Aphids | | Jute | Bihar hairy caterpillar, yellow mite | | Maize | Aphids, pink borer, stem borers | | Mango | Fruit flies, hoppers | | Mustard | Aphids, gall midges | | Rice | Gall midges, rice hispa, stem borers, white jassid | | Tea | Aphids, caterpillars, flushworm, mealybugs, scale insects, tea mosquito bug, tea semilooper, thrips | | Tobacco | Aphids, tobacco caterpillar | | Tomato | Aphids, diamondback moth, jassids, leaf miner, shoot and fruit borer, whitefly | | Wheat | Aphids, pink borer, termites |