The Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee,

Having completed an evaluation of the proposal by Canada to list long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids, their salts and related compounds in Annexes A, B and/or C to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, and having decided at its seventeenth meeting, in its decision POPRC-17/6, that the proposal meets the criteria set out in Annex D to the Convention,