× Information on this section of ECOLEX comes from the InforMEA Portal which compiled information from MEA Secretariats with the support of the European Union. The accuracy of the information displayed is the responsibility of the originating data source. In case of discrepancy the information as displayed on the respective MEA website prevails. Cooperation with the International Maritime Organization Document type Decision Reference number OEWG-15/18 Date Jun 23, 2026 SourceUNEP, InforMEA Status Active Subject Waste & hazardous substances Treaty Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (Apr 5, 1989) Meeting Fifteenth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention Website www.informea.org Full text download.aspx Abstract The Open-ended Working Group Recalling that, pursuant to decision BC-17/23, the Parties and observers were invited to submit to the Secretariat, by 15 November 2025, comments on the provisional guidance on the implementation of the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, 2009 and of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal with respect to the transboundary movement of ships intended for recycling, approved by the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization at its eighty-second session, and any other additional comments from the perspective of the Basel Convention on the implementation of the Hong Kong and Basel conventions with respect to the transboundary movement of ships intended for recycling,