The purpose of this Update to Canada’s National Implementation Plan (NIP) is to inform the Conference of the Parties of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, and the public, of Canada’s plan for implementing its obligations with respect to the nine new persistent organic pollutants (POPs) added to the Convention in 2009. Each Party to the Stockholm Convention is required, under Article 7 of the Convention, to develop a National Implementation Plan (NIP) demonstrating how it will implement its obligations under the Convention. Canada submitted its first NIP to the Stockholm