× 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. Guidelines on best available techniques and provisional guidance on best environmental practices Document type Decision Reference number SC-3/5 Date Apr 30, 2007 SourceUNEP, InforMEA Status Active Subject Waste & hazardous substances Keyword Capacity building Technology transfer Treaty Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Sep 21, 2001) Meeting Third Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention Website www.informea.org Full text UNEP-POPS-COP.3-SC-3-5.Arabic.docx UNEP-POPS-COP.3-SC-3-5.English.PDF UNEP-POPS-COP.3-SC-3-5.French.doc UNEP-POPS-COP.3-SC-3-5.Russian.pdf UNEP-POPS-COP.3-SC-3-5.Chinese.pdf UNEP-POPS-COP.3-SC-3-5.Arabic.pdf UNEP-POPS-COP.3-SC-3-5.Spanish.pdf UNEP-POPS-COP.3-SC-3-5.Russian.docx UNEP-POPS-COP.3-SC-3-5.Spanish.doc UNEP-POPS-COP.3-SC-3-5.English.DOC UNEP-POPS-COP.3-SC-3-5.Chinese.docx UNEP-POPS-COP.3-SC-3-5.French.pdf Abstract Requests the Secretariat, within available resources, to compile the information provided under paragraph 3 above and to collect information (e.g., make use of a questionnaire) on experiences gained in using the revised guidelines and guidance through field tests and other means by 31 December 2008 in order to report such information to the Conference of the Parties at its fourth meeting; Encourages Parties and observers to exchange information on their experiences in implementing the guidelines and guidance by electronic means such as electronic discussion groups facilitated, as appropriate, through the Secretariat; Invites Parties and others in a position to do so: (a) To fund awareness-raising and training workshops on the guidelines on best available techniques and best environmental practices; (b) To fund awareness-raising and training activities pursuant to decision SC-1/20; Invites the appropriate bodies of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal to consider the waste-related contents of the revised guidelines and guidance and to report any outcome of their doing so to the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention; Requests the Secretariat to transmit annex II of the report of the Expert Group on the work of its second meeting to the appropriate bodies of the Basel Convention through the secretariat of the Basel Convention in response to a request by the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention at its seventh meeting.