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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 Thursday, 18 September 2014
On Thursday, 18 September, OEWG-9 convened in contact groups and Friends of the Co-Chairs groups.

In the morning, the contact group on technical matters completed its review of the technical guidelines for persistent organic pollutants (POPs), by discussing wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with hexabromodiphenyl ether, heptabromodiphenyl ether, tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether (PBDEs); and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD).

The Friends of the Co-Chairs group on the Cartagena Declaration met in the morning, as did the group on paragraph 26(b) of the e-waste guidelines (conditions under which used electrical and electronic equipment would normally be considered waste), which intended to provide input to the technical matters contact group in the afternoon.

At lunch, delegates attended side events on advancing environmentally-sound management in the field and on the Sustainable Recycling Industries Programme.

In the afternoon, in the contact group on technical matters, delegates heard a report from the Friends of the Co-Chairs group on paragraph 26(b) and then considered a proposed draft decision on e-waste prepared by the EU. They then briefly considered the rest of the draft technical guidelines on e-waste.

The contact group on legal matters also met during the afternoon, discussing which terms to include in the glossary of terms and a draft decision on the way forward, and continued this discussion into the evening.
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Main Sessions
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Room view during the discussion by the contact group on technical matters
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Li Li, China and Jacinthe Séguin, Canada
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Henrik Hallgrim Eriksen, Norway
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View of dais during discussions by the contact group on technical matters
Michael Ernst, Germany
Alan Watson, International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN)
Paula Barrios, IISD
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Room view of the Friends of the Co-Chairs group on the Cartagena Declaration
Angela Patricia Rivera Galvis, Colombia
Anne Daniel, Canada
Valeria González Posse, Argentina
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Room view of the Friends of the Co-Chairs group on paragraph 26(b)
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Room view during the discussion by the contact group on legal clarity
James Mulolo, African Institute and BCRC South Africa
Abel Shafei Mohamed Osman, Egypt
Sarah Westervelt, Basel Action Network
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Kees Wielenga, FFact Strategy and Implementation and Silje Johannessen, Norway
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Delegates discussing the results of the contact group on e-waste
Side Event: Advancing ESM in the Field: ESM Pilot Projects and their impacts
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From L-R: Lin Yeo, China; Lixia Zheng, Basel Convention Regional Centre (BCRC) Asia and Pacific; and Susan Wingfield, BRS Secretariat
Co-Chair Andreas Jaron, Germany
Susan Wingfield, BRS Secretariat
Miguel Araujo Padilla, BCRC Central America, singing Hey Jude
Side Event: The Sustainable Recycling Industries Programme
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Room view during the side event
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John Pwamang, Ghana
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Sonia Valdivia, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) and Matthias Kern, BRS Secretariat
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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