The Persistent Organic Pollutants National Implementation Plan for 2005 – 2020 (NIP) is a comprehensive, strategic policy document whose objective is to develop and improve the optimal and most effective POPs management system through the implemention of a sustainable policy while securing human health and environmental protection. The implementation of the NIP will permit Latvia to fulfill its obligations under both the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (the Stockholm Convention) signed 22 May 2001 and the Aarhus Protocol “On Persistent Organic Pollutants” of the Geneva