* Stockholm Convention

DDT was subsequently banned for agricultural use worldwide under the Stockholm Convention, but its limited use in disease vector control continues to this day and remains controversial.

The Stockholm Convention, which took effect in 2004, outlawed several persistent organic pollutants, and restricted DDT use to vector control.

The Stockholm Convention, establishing the EFTA, was signed on 4 January 1960 in the Swedish capital by seven countries ( known as the " outer seven ").

The initial Stockholm Convention was superseded by the Vaduz Convention, which provides for the liberalisation of trade among the member states.

Due to PCBs ' environmental toxicity and classification as a persistent organic pollutant, PCB production was banned by the United States Congress in 1979 and by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.

According to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 9 of the 12 most dangerous and persistent organic chemicals are pesticides.

Dioxins and other persistent organic pollutants ( POPs ) are subject to the Stockholm Convention.

Due to the toxicity of PCBs and their classification as persistent organic pollutants, PCB production was banned by the U. S. Congress in 1977 and by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.

PCBs are a persistent organic pollutant, and cause cancer in animals and likely in humans as well, among other health effects ; PCB production was banned by the U. S. Congress in 1979 and by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.

* Stockholm Convention, an international agreement on reducing persistent organic pesticides

For example, PFOS is a persistent organic pollutant as judged by the Stockholm Convention.

A number of the organochlorine pesticides have been banned from most uses worldwide, and globally they are controlled via the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants.

Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants was adopted in 2001 and enforced in 2004

In 2009, Kepone was included in the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants, which bans its production and use worldwide.

* Dirty dozen ( Stockholm Convention ), a group of twelve persistent organic pollutants ( POPs )

The Berne Convention was first established in 1886, and was subsequently re-negotiated in 1896 ( Paris ), 1908 ( Berlin ), 1928 ( Rome ), 1948 ( Brussels ), 1967 ( Stockholm ) and 1971 ( Paris ).

* Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants ( POPs )

The GEF subsequently was also selected to serve as financial mechanism for two more international conventions: The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants ( 2001 ) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification ( 2003 ).

Hence, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants ( POPS ) saw its initial application for a < tt > int </ tt > domain name rejected on the grounds that the convention did not explicitly create an entity subject of international law.

In 2009 the production and agricultural use of lindane was banned under the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants.

In 2009, an international ban on the use of lindane in agriculture was implemented under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

Another production opened at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden, on 8 January 1880, while productions in Christiania ( with Johanne Juell as Nora and Arnoldus Reimers as Torvald ) and Bergen followed shortly after.

in Stockholm 4 July 2008, and on Swedish television on 5 August.

Bowie was quoted in Stockholm as saying that " Britain could benefit from a Fascist leader ", and was detained by customs on the Russian / Polish border for possessing Nazi paraphernalia.

On 4 January 1960, the Treaty on European Free Trade Association was initialed in the Golden Hall of the Prince's Palace of Stockholm.

de Klerk, who was on a brief visit to Stockholm, Sweden to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the Nobel Prize foundation, announced he would immediately return to mourn his dead ex-wife.

In ElBaradei's acceptance speech in Stockholm, he stated that only one percent of the money spent on developing new weapons would be enough to feed the entire world, and that, if we hope to escape self-destruction, then nuclear weapons should have no place in our collective conscience, and no role in our security.

The Nobel Prize ceremony took place in Stockholm, Sweden, on the evening of Monday, December 10.

However, he was refused entry to Russia and went on to Stockholm and produced the journals Russische Korrespondenz-Pravda and Bote der Russischen Revolution to publish Bolshevik documents and Russian information in German.

The small village of Herräng in Sweden ( north of Stockholm ) has unofficially become the international mecca of Lindy Hop thanks to the annual Herräng Dance Camp formerly run by the Rhythm Hot Shots then passed on to new owners and operational team, with an attendance from around 40 countries.

It was salvaged in 1961 and is now on permanent display at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm.

The wedding took place in Stockholm on 25 November 1620.

Stitt's playing with the group is found on a recording made in Olympia, Paris ( where Davis and Coltrane had played a few months before ) and the Live in Stockholm album.

Alfred Nobel () was born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden, into a family of engineers.

Nordea is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, Helsinki Stock Exchange and Copenhagen Stock Exchange.

* Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's Research on Nuclear weapons

" The Early medieval Codex Argenteus and Codex Vercellensis, the Stockholm Codex Aureus and the Codex Brixianus give a range of luxuriously produced manuscripts all on purple vellum, in imitation of Byzantine examples, like the Rossano Gospels, Sinope Gospels and the Vienna Genesis, which at least at one time are believed to have been reserved for Imperial commissions.

Nurmi set his first world record on the 10, 000 m in Stockholm in 1921.

René Descartes died on 11 February 1650 in Stockholm, Sweden, where he had been invited as a tutor for Queen Christina of Sweden.

Stockholm was founded in 1252 on an island in the stream where Lake Mälaren ( from the west ) drains into the Baltic Sea ( to the east ).

* yellow tower of Storkyrkan on Stadsholmen, in front of the flat roof of the Stockholm Palace

The Stockholm School of Economics was founded in 1909 on private initiative as a response to rapid industrialization and a growing need for well educated businessmen and company managers and has maintained close ties with the business community ever since.

It landed on present day Riddarholmen where today the Tower of Birger Jarl stands, a building, as a consequence, still often erroneously mentioned as the oldest building in Stockholm.