Minamata initial assessment report 2019

Abstract

The Minamata Initial Assessment (MIA) is intended to facilitate countries to ratify and implement the Minamata Convention on Mercury. The primary objective of the Initial Assessment Report is to provide a basis for further activities relevant to the implementation of the Convention. In this regard, the MIA report will assist Maldives in notifying the Convention in accordance with Article 7, and with respect to the development of its National Implementation Plan in accordance with Article 20. MIA will enable the preparation of a National Plan to reduce mercury emissions as set out in Article 8 of the Convention. The report gives an overview of the initial inventory of stocks of mercury and/or mercury compounds; supply of mercury, including relevant sources of mercury emissions and release sectors that use mercury or mercury compounds; and the amount of Hg per year based on the data collection exercises conducted for the MIA in the Maldives. Maldives is a country that depends on import. There is no mining, manufacturing or production of mercury or mercury added products in the country. The only source of mercury in the Maldives is estimated to be through the import of mercury and mercury containing products.