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Basel Convention Technical Expert Group develops framework for environmentally sound management of wastes

The Technical Expert Group of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and their Disposal completed a framework for the environmentally sound management (ESM) of hazardous wastes and other wastes at its third meeting, held from 21 to 23 January 2013, in Glion, Switzerland.

The framework establishes a common understanding of what ESM encompasses and identifies tools and strategies to support and promote the implementation of ESM. It is intended as a practical guide for all stakeholders participating in the management of hazardous wastes and other wastes.

The framework will be considered and possibly adopted at the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (COP 11) in April 2013, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Country Led Initiative

The President of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (COP 9), in his statement on the way forward on the Ban Amendment (Annex to decision IX/26; document UNEP/CHW.9/39), called for a process to explore means by which objectives of the Ban Amendment might be achieved.

Based on the statement of the President of COP 9, Indonesia and Switzerland announced their readiness to organize a “Country-led Initiative” (CLI), inviting key players, to discuss in an informal, dynamic and non-dogmatic manner those issues related to the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes, especially to developing countries, contrary to the overarching objective of the Ban Amendment.

The CLI process developed a draft omnibus decision, which formed the basis of discussions and the adoption of a decision at the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (Decision BC-10/3 on the Indonesian-Swiss country-led initiative to improve the effectiveness of the Basel Convention).

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Decision BC-10/3

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