The Macao Special Administrative Region of China announced Chief Executive’s Decision No. 168/2024 on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) 2 in notification G/TBT/N/MAC/31 to the WTO 1 on March 18, 2025. Under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Decision forbids the import, export, and transshipment of products listed in Annex II and substances listed in Annex I within Macao. 

Key Provisions of the Decision

Chemical substances covered by the Stockholm Convention that are listed in the Decision are forbidden to be imported, exported, or transported. Only materials used as reference standards or for laboratory research are exempt.

Additionally forbidden are the import, export, and transit of the items specified in the Decision.

The ruling became operative on October 29, 2024.

The following goods and mixes are prohibited by the Decision and should be noted by cosmetic firms.

• Mixtures and products containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs), or polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs)
• Mixtures and products containing aldrin, toxaphene, chlordane, chlordecone, DDT, dieldrin, endosulfan, endrin, heptachlor, or mirex
• Mixtures and products containing 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane, including lindane
• Mixtures and products containing pentachlorobenzene or hexachlorobenzene
• Mixtures and products containing perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), its salts, perfluorooctane sulfonamide (PFOSA), or perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride (POSF)
• Mixtures and products containing tetrabromodiphenyl ether, pentabromodiphenyl ether, hexabromodiphenyl ether, heptabromodiphenyl ether, or octabromodiphenyl ether, not elsewhere specified or included

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