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What does Pops mean? In telecommunications practice, POPs refers to the number of people within a mobile network operator’s licensed or covered area (population coverage), used as a reach metric in contracts, valuations and regulatory reporting. It is not defined in legislation or case law; regulators (Ofcom in the UK and ComReg in Ireland) typically use “population coverage” rather than “POPs”, but the shorthand is common in commercial documents. POPs indicates potential audience, not active subscribers. It is usually derived by overlaying licence or radio-coverage maps with census data as at a stated date. For legal certainty, documents should specify methodology (e.g. indoor/outdoor signal thresholds,...

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs): International Conventions, EU Recast Regulation 2019/1021, and the UK Post-Brexit/Assimilated Regime: Derogations, Waste and Competent Authorities

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Pops are hazardous chemical substances that can cross national boundaries, are often detected far from their points of release, persist in the environment, and bioaccumulate—i.e. build up within the bodies of living organisms—thereby posing risks to human health and the natural world. They are toxic compounds that break down only very slowly and enter food chains. These priority pollutants comprise pesticides, industrial chemicals, and unintended by-products of industrial processes. POPs are frequently carried by air and water across borders to locations far from their sources, including regions where they have never been produced or used, with impacts on ecosystems. For more information on POP emissions, see the data, trackers and indicators on the European Environment Agency website.

Efforts to control and ban POPs International

At international level, two major Conventions (international treaties) provide the foundation for more targeted control measures...

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Laura Bolado

Laura worked in EU law for over two decades making it one her main area of expertise. In 2002 she worked for the European Commission (Brussels) and relocated to London in 2003 to work for the European Medicines Agency. There she gained first-hand experience on the functioning of the EU which she later applied in legal roles at pharmaceutical companies and law firms before turning to a more generalist approach to EU law at LexisNexis. At LexisNexis she helped develop and maintain EU Tracker (writing on the implementation of EU Directives in different EU jurisdictions, etc.) and assisted various departments with EU law matters in her EU Law Specialist capacity. Laura also delivered EU law training to several interns and legal professionals. Laura left LexisNexis in late 2013 to explore her options in different environments. In 2014 Laura lectured EU law at...

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