GMP2 Asian Midterm Workshop

Day 1 Wednesday 8 August, 2018

Progress of the POPs Global Monitoring Plan

1. Status overview: Implementation of the POPs Global Monitoring Plan in the Asia Region, Jacqueline Alvarez, UN Environment.

Progress of the POPs Global Monitoring Plan in the Asia Region

2. Abiotic air sampling in the Asia Region, Rianne, van Dijk Jacob de Boer, VU

3. Monitoring of dl-POPs and PFOS and its precursors in air- Asia-Pacific Region, Heidelore Fiedler, MTM

4. Monitoring of PFOS in water - Asia-Pacific Region, Heidelore Fiedler, MTM

5. 2016-2019 Round of UNEP-coordinated exposure studies on human milk in the Asia region, Rainer Malisch

6. Sampling of matrices of national interest in the Asia Region, Ike van der Veen, Rianne van Dijk, Jacob de Boer, VU

7. Status of national samples at Örebro University - Asia-Pacific Region, Heidelore Fiedler, MTM

Progress of POPs monitoring on the regional level

8. Progress of POPs monitoring on the regional level: 3^rd Round compilation of regional report in Asia Pacific under the Stockholm Convention, Yasuyuki Shibata

Progress of POPs monitoring on the regional level

9. Cooperative programme for establishing the POPs monitoring core laboratories in the South-East Asia Sub-Region, Takuya Shiozaki

Progress of the POPs Monitoring Plan on the national level

10. Implementation status of "POPs monitoring plan in the Asia Region", Project in Mongolia, Enkhtuul Surenjav

11. Progress on the Human milk survey, Thailand, Pollutin control Department

12. Philippines: Progress of the POPs monitoring plan on the National level, Philippines

13. Progress of the POPs GMP-2 in Indonesia

14. Project's progress of Vietnam

Day 2 Thursday 9 August, 2018

Future needs, opportunities and challenges

1. Midterm workshop for the UN Environment/GEF project implementation of the POPs global monitoring plan under the Stockholm convention in thhe Asia Region, Setouvanh Phanthavongsa

2. GMP 2 of POPs progress, Keo vanthoeun

3. Bi-ennial global interlaboratory assessment on Persistent Organic Pollutatnts - 3^rd and 4^th Rounds, Ike van der Veen, Heidelore Fiedler, Jacob de Boer,

4. Results and conclusions from the 3^rd Interlaboratory assessment and Status of the 4^th Interlaboratory assessment, Heidelore fiedler, Ike van der Veen, Jacob de Boer,

5. Global monitoring plan for POPs and the Effectiveness Evaluation: Mandate, Outcomes of COP-8, Current Status, and Future activities

6. Proposal on including the analysis of other POPs beyond GMP2, Rainer Malisch

7. GMP data Warehouse: Current data content and functionalities: Midterm regional workshop for GMP2 Project in Asia 2018, Kateřina Šebková

8. National report for the POPs global monitoring plan suggested template, UN Environment

9.Guidelines for the sampling and pre-treatment of national samples within the UNEP capacity building project 2016-2019, Jacob de Boer, Heidelore Fiedler,

Day 3 Friday 10 August, 2018

1. Element for consideration in discussing a future: Plan for the sustainable monitoring of POPs on national and reginoal scale beyond the 2^nd Phase global monitoring, Kateřina Šebková

2. Brainstorming group discussion

3. Asia Region mid-term workshop, UN Environment