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38 | III. REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 2009 ANNUAL REPORT CP/RAC 2009Fire Retardants (BFRs), identifying the economicsectors that could be potential users of BFRs andthe occupations or circumstances that could lead toexposure to these substances.National Application Plans in the countries of theMediterranean areas. The methodology followedwas: the revision of the Sources of information; adetailed country by country study and comparativeanalysis.The document was distributed in English andSpanish, designed and published on the web pageof the RAC/CP. It will be disseminated to all the professionalsand institutions related with the StockholmConvention.The document was presented in its preliminary versionat the “Regional Work Seminar on positiveexperiences in the implantation of the StockholmConvention and its synergies with Basel and Rotterdam”.2.6. Preparation of a study of data anddoubts on brominated flame retardantmaterials in the MediterraneanThe study was sent to the National Focal Points inNovember with the objective of obtaining informationon the real uses and production of brominatedflame retardants in order to take measures.Some of these new compounds have recently beenincluded in the Stockholm Convention. The objectiveof this activity is to collect all the informationavailable in Mediterranean countries with respectto the production and consumption of BrominatedThe RAC/CP worked during the first months of 2009on the collection of information and has prepared areport in English for publication on its web page andfor diffusion among the NFP, the Focal Points ofthe Centres of the Stockholm Convention and in theStockholm Convention Centres. As a result a studywas undertaken titled “Report on available data andlack of information on Brominated Fire Retardants inMediterranean countries”.The report centres on the following countries;Croatia, Cyprus, Israel, Libya, Monaco Serbia andSyria, analysing the legal and management framework;their production, use and reserves; and theirrelated actions and their principal worries. At thesame time, the report provides a general vision ofthe International Framework of BFRs, the latesttechnology on its toxicological properties and thealternatives for the BFRs used at present.2.7. Preparation of the contribution of theMAP to the II International Conferenceon the Management of Products(ICCM-II) based on the work undertakenby the Contracting PartiesTo prepare the participation of the RAC/CP in theConference (2009) with the dissemination ofthe activities carried out by the countries that constitutethe MAP for the implementation of theSAICM, the RAC/CP prepared the report “Study onthe implantation and synergies between theStockholm, Basel and Rotterdam Conventions andthe Strategic Approach to International ChemicalsManagement (SAICM) among the signatories ofthe Barcelona Convention”.This study was presented in a plenary session of theICCM-II and in the “Regional Seminar on positive