This Convention helps Belarus to prepare programmes and action plans to minimize the negative impact of obsolete pesticides, PCB-containing equipment and other POPs on human health and the environment. No inventory of mercury, mercury compounds and products containing mercury was carried out in sectors such as healthcare (which uses equipment containing mercury) and energy (which uses relays with a mercury switch as well as luminescent lamps containing mercury). The Fifth National Report of 2014 on implementation of obligations deriving from the Convention requirements encompasses activity and events of the period following the year 2012.