Speaker profile
Timo Seppälä
Senior Officer, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Timo Seppälä is a government official responsible for the implementation of the EU Regulation 1021/2019 on Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Finland. He has also participate in the negotiations for the global Stockholm Convention on POPs for twenty years and is a member of the POPs Review Committee (POPRC) 2022-2026. POPRC is the body under the convention responsible for reviewing POP nominations and proposing ways to restrict the proposed chemicals in the convention. He has also supported Basel and Stockholm Convention secretariats in developing various guidance documents to support countries’ efforts to implement the convention.