| Summary: | At the First Ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council (September 1998), the Ministers welcomed with appreciation and supported the three-part cooperative pilot project for the phase out of PCB use, and management of PCB-contaminated wastes in the Russian Federation as an example of a cooperative project under ACAP, and endorsed Part I of the PCB project, which has received financial and other support from all Arctic States, and from the Netherlands. According the Project Proposal approved at the Steering Group Meeting, Moscow, 10 June 1998, it is suggested that the Project Phase 2 ("Feasibility Study") be implemented following presentation of the Final Report from Phase 1. Phase 1 was initiated in May 1999 and the report from Phase 1 was presented in Moscow, September 2000. Based on the results from Phase 1, and in accordance with the guiding principles agreed in 1998, plans for Phase 2 have been developed. In both the development and implementation of Phase2, the basic principles presented in Appendix 1 shall be applied.
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