Structure of the 4th and 5th draft of the mercury guidelines

4th Draft / 5th Draft / POPs guidelines
Technical Guidelines on the Environmentally Sound Management of Mercury Wastes / Technical Guidelines for the Environmentally Sound Management of Wastes Consisting of, Containing or Contaminated with Mercury / Updated general technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
  1. Introduction
1.1.Background
1.2.About Mercury
1.3.Health Effects
1.4.Mercury Pollution /
  1. Introduction
  2. Scope (added)
  3. Background
  4. About Mercury
  5. Human Health Risk (the title was changed)
  6. Mercury Pollution
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  1. Introduction
  1. Scope
  1. About POPs

  1. Relevant Provisions of the Basel Convention and in the UNEP
2.1.The Basel Convention
2.2.Provisions for Mercury in the UNEP /
  1. Relevant Provisions of the Basel Convention and Works under the UNEP (the title was changed)
  2. The Basel Convention
  3. Work under UNEP (the title was changed)
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  1. Relevant provisions of the Basel and Stockholm conventions
  1. Basel Convention
  2. Stockholm Convention

  1. Issues under the Stockholm Convention to be addressed cooperatively with the Basel Convention
  1. Low POP content
  2. Levels of destruction and irreversible transformation
  3. Methods that constitute environmentally sound disposal

  1. Guidance on Environmentally Sound Management (ESM) Criteria and Practices of Mercury Waste
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  1. Guidance on the environmentally sound management (ESM) of Mercury Waste (the chapter 3 to 11 in the 4th draft were incorporated into the chapter 3 in the 5th draft.)
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  1. Guidance on environmentally sound management (ESM)

3.1.Introduction
3.2.The Basel Convention
3.3.OECD – Core Performance Elements for the ESM of Wastes for Government and Industry
3.4.Application of BAT and BEP / 3.1.General Introduction
3.1.1.Introduction
3.1.2.The Basel Convention
3.1.3.OECD – Core Performance Elements for the of ESM of Wastes for Government and Industry
3.1.4.Application of Best Available Techniques (BAT) & Best Environmental Practices (BEP) /
  1. General considerations
  1. Basel Convention
  2. Stockholm Convention
  3. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

  1. Legislative and Regulatory Framework
  2. Introduction
  3. Phase-out of Production and Use of Mercury in Products and Industrial Processes
  4. Identification and Inventories of Mercury Waste
  5. Purchasing Practices
  6. Control of Exports or Imports of Mercury Waste
  7. Registration of Mercury Waste Generators
  8. Authorization of Treatment and Disposal Facilities
  9. Inspections and Monitoring of Treatment and Disposal Facilities
4.9.Employee Training (moved to 3.9.1)
4.10.Mercury Spill Prevention, Response, and Emergency Measures (moved to 3.10) / 3.2.Legislative and Regulatory Framework
3.2.1.Introduction
3.2.2.Phase-out of Production and Use of Mercury in Products and Industrial Processes
3.2.3.Identification and Inventories of Mercury Waste
3.2.4.Purchasing Practices
3.2.5.Transboundary Movement Requirements
3.2.6.Registration of Mercury Waste Generators
3.2.7.Authorization of Treatment and Disposal Facilities
3.2.8.Inspections and Monitoring of Treatment and Disposal Facilities /
  1. Legislative and regulatory framework
  1. Phase-out dates for production and use of POPs
  2. Transboundary movement requirements
  3. Specifications for containers, equipment, bulk containers and storage sites containing POPs
  4. Health and safety
  5. Specification of acceptable analytical and sampling methods for POPs
  6. Requirements for hazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities
  7. General requirement for public participation
  8. Contaminated sites
  9. Other legislative controls

  1. Applications for Mercury Waste Prevention and Minimization (including Reduction of Discharge and Emission)
  2. Introduction
  3. Source Reduction (Alternative Processes or Materials)
  4. Waste Minimization (Discharges)
5.4.Training and Cleaner Production (moved to 3.9.2) / 3.3.Mercury Waste Prevention and Minimization
3.3.1.Introduction
3.3.2.Source Reduction (Alternative Processes or Materials)
3.3.3.Waste Minimization (Reduction of Discharges) /
  1. Waste prevention and minimization

  1. Identification and Inventory
  2. Identification of Mercury Waste
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  1. Identification and inventories

6.1.1.Introduction
6.1.2.Sources and Types of Mercury Waste
6.1.3.Mercury Notification
6.1.4.Common Process and Source on Causal Factors of Mercury Waste
6.1.5.Chemical Analysis of Mercury in Waste and Flue Gas
6.2.Inventories / 3.4.1.Introduction
3.4.2.Sources and Types of Mercury Waste
3.4.3.Mercury Notification
3.4.4.Common Process and Source on Causal Factors of Mercury Waste
3.4.5.Chemical Analysis of Mercury in Waste and Flue Gas
3.4.6.Inventories /
  1. Identification
  1. Inventories

  1. Sampling, analysis and monitoring
  1. Sampling
  2. Analysis
  1. Monitoring

  1. Handling, Collection, Storage (Interim), and Transportation of Mercury Waste
7.1.Introduction
7.2.Safe Handling
7.2.3 Mercury Spillage (moved to 3.10)
7.3.Interim Storage at End Users
7.4.Segregation and Collection
7.5.Transportation
7.6.Storage at Waste Management Centres or Other Facilities / 3.5.Handling, Collection, Packaging, Labelling, Interim Storage and Transportation of Mercury Waste(the title was changed.)
3.5.1.Introduction
3.5.2.Safe Handling
3.5.3.Interim Storage at End Users
3.5.4.Segregation and Collection
3.5.5.Transportation
3.5.6.Storage at Waste Management Centres or Other Facilities /
  1. Handling, collection, packaging, labelling, transportation and storage
  1. Handling
  1. Collection
  2. Packaging
  3. Labelling
  4. Transportation
  5. Storage

  1. Treatment of Mercury Waste and Recovery of Mercury
  2. Introduction
  3. Mercury Recovering Process – Solid Type of Mercury Waste
  4. Mercury Recovering Process – Mercury in Wastewater and Other Liquid Mercury Waste or Air Gas
  5. Stabilization/Solidification: Encapsulation Technologies
/ 3.6.Treatment of Mercury Waste and Recovery of Mercury
3.6.1.Introduction
3.6.2.Mercury Recovering Process – Solid Type of Mercury Waste
3.6.3.Mercury Recovering Process – Mercury in Wastewater and Other Liquid Mercury Waste or Air Gas
3.6.4.Stabilization/Solidification: Encapsulation Technologies /
  1. Environmentally sound disposal
  1. Pre-treatment
  2. Destruction and irreversible transformation methods
  3. Other disposal methods when neither destruction nor irreversible transformation is the environmentally preferable option
  4. Other disposal methods when the POP content is low

  1. Long-Term Storage and Disposal of Mercury Waste
  2. Introduction
9.2.Standards for Packaging and Storage of Mercury and Mercury Storage Building
9.3.Examples of Long-Term Storage
9.4.Specially Engineered Landfill / 3.7.Long Term Storage and Landfilling of Mercury Waste
3.7.1.Introduction
3.7.2.Best Management Practices (added)
3.7.3.Standards for Packaging and Storage of Mercury and Mercury Storage Building
3.7.4.Examples of Long-Term Storage
3.7.5.Specially Engineered Landfill
  1. Remediation of Sites Contaminated with Mercury
  2. Introduction
  3. Remediation Programmes
  4. Remediation Techniques
  5. Emergency Response
  6. Remediation Cases
/ 3.8.Remediation of Contaminated Sites
3.8.1.Introduction
3.8.2.Remediation Programmes
3.8.3.Remediation Techniques
3.8.4.Emergency Response
3.8.5.Remediation Cases /
  1. Remediation of contaminated sites
  1. Contaminated site identification
  2. Environmentally sound remediation

3.9.Health and Safety
3.9.1.Employee Training (moved from 4.9)
3.9.2.Training and Cleaner Production (moved from 5.6) /
  1. Health and safety
  1. Higher-risk situations
  2. Lower-risk situations

3.10.Emergency Response(4.10 Mercury Spill Prevention, Response, and Emergency Measures and 7.2.3 Mercury Spillage were integrated) /
  1. Emergency response

  1. Public Awareness and Participation
  2. Introduction
  3. Programmes
  4. Identification of Players on Programmes of Public Participation
  5. Type II Initiative
/ 3.11.Public Awareness and Participation
3.11.1.Introduction
3.11.2.Programmes
3.11.3.Identification of Players on Programmes of Public Participation
3.11.4.Type II Initiative /
  1. Public participation

Appendix A: UNEP Governing Council Decisions / Deleted
Appendix B: SAICM / Deleted
  1. References
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  1. Bibliography (the title was changed)