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Chemicals and Wastes Policy & Practice

Ninth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the
Basel Convention (OEWG-9)

16-19 September 2014 | Geneva, Switzerland

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Highlights for Wednesday, 17 September 2014
On Wednesday, 17 September, the OEWG continued its work in contact groups and Friends of the Co-Chairs groups.

Two Friends of the Co-Chairs groups met throughout the day. The first discussed the roadmap for action on the Cartagena Declaration, while the second addressed paragraph 26 (b) of the e-waste guidelines, concerning conditions under which used electrical and electronic equipment would normally be considered waste.

In the morning, the technical matters contact group kicked off what one delegate called “the POPs marathon” by starting consideration of the general technical guidelines for wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with POPs (POP wastes).

During lunch, delegates attended side events on the patent landscape of e-waste recycling technologies, and on global electronic product repair practices in the high tech sector.

In the afternoon, the technical matters contact group discussed the specific technical guidelines for wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs) or polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs), including hexabromobiphenyl (HBB); perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), its salts and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride (PFOSF); and unintentionally produced polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, hexachlorobenzene, polychlorinated biphenyls or pentachlorobenzene. The group also began consideration of the technical guidelines for wastes consisting of elemental mercury and wastes containing or contaminated with mercury.

The legal clarity contact group convened in the evening to begin its work on the draft glossary of terms.
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View of the dais during the discussion by the contact group on technical matters
Main Sessions
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Room view of the Friends of the Co-Chairs group on paragraph 26 b
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Room view of the Friends of the Co-Chairs group on the Cartagena Declaration
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Julie Croteau and Jacinthe Séguin, Canada
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Participants of the Contact Group on technical matters
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Participants conferring during the Contact Group on technical matters discussion.
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Upik Kamil and Aristìn Apriani, Indonesia
Naoko Moritani, Japan
Heidelore Fiedler, UNEP Chemicals
Michael Ernst, Germany
Side Event: Global Electronic Product Repair Practices in the High-Tech Sector
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Room view during the side event
Noluzuko Zukie Gwayi, South Africa
Kurt Van Den Herten, IBM
Rick Goss, Information Technology Industry Council (ITIC)
Side Event: Patent landscape of e-waste recycling technologies
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From L-R: Matthias Kern, BRS Secretariat; Leila Devia, Argentina; Kerstin Stendahl, BRS Secretariat; and Irene Kitsara, WIPO
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Isabell Baudin, Switzerland
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Leila Devia, Argentina
Participants Networking
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Around the Venue
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Funding for coverage of this meeting has been provided by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, the Rotterdam Convention, and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
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Meeting resources

*OEWG 9 Website *OEWG 9 Documents
*OEWG 9 Provisional Agenda *OEWG 9 Tentative Schedule for the Meeting
*Work Programme of the OEWG for 2014–2015


IISD RS resources

*IISD RS Coverage of the Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (BC COP11), Sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (RC COP6), Sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention (SC COP6) and Second simultaneous extraordinary meetings of the three conferences of the Parties to the three conventions (ExCOPs2), 28 April - 10 May 2013, Geneva, Switzerland

*IISD RS coverage of BC COP10, 17-21 October 2011, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

*IISD RS Coverage of the Simultaneous Extraordinary meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions (ExCOPs), and Eleventh Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GCSS-11/GMEF), 22-26 February 2010, Bali, Indonesia

*IISD RS coverage of BC COP9, 23-27 June 2008, Bali, Indonesia

*IISD RS coverage of BC COP8, 27 November - 1 December 2006, Nairobi, Kenya

*IISD RS archive of meetings of the Basel Convention

*CHEMICALS-L - A news and announcement list on chemicals and wastes news and policy developments

*Chemicals and Wastes Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of International Activities Addressing Chemicals and Wastes Policy

*Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
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