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Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
… (Regulation (EC) No 850/2004) and entails extensive reporting requirements for the Member States. The German Ordinance on Surface Waters also regulates 14 of … Mean concentrations of POP in 2014-2016 Source: German Environment Agency based on data supplied by LAWA - 2018 Exceedances for total hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCH), … limits on the production, use and release of several of these 14 POPs have been in effect in Germany since the 1980s. Their concentrations in the environment remain …