Download or read book Australia's National Implementation Plan written by Australian Government - Department of the Environment and Heritage - Environment Australia and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) commits governments to reducing, or where feasible, eliminating the production and environmental releases of twelve POPs. The Convention came into force on 17 May 2004. Australia ratified it on 20 May 2004 and became a party on 18 August 2004. Parties to the Convention are required to develop, and to endeavour to put into practice, a National Implementation Plan (NIP) setting out how they will implement their obligations under the Convention.