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Technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of persistent organic pollutants wastes

Document type
Decision
Reference number
SC-1/21
Date
May 2, 2005
Source
UNEP, InforMEA
Status
Active
Subject
Waste & hazardous substances
Keyword
Management/conservation Ecofriendly products/ecofriendly processes
Treaty
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Sep 21, 2001)
Meeting
First Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention
Website
www.informea.org
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Abstract
3. Encourages Parties to the Stockholm Convention to participate actively in the continuing work under the Basel Convention referred to in paragraph 2 above;

4. Requests the Secretariat to further strengthen cooperation and synergies with the Secretariat of the Basel Convention with respect to the issues in paragraph 2 above.

5. Requests the Secretariat to keep Parties informed about the status and content of the technical guidelines being developed under the Basel Convention, with a view to the future consideration of a decision under Article 6, paragraph 2, of the Stockholm Convention regarding levels of destruction and irreversible transformation, methods that are considered to constitute environmentally sound disposal and the definition of low persistent organic pollutant content, in close cooperation with the appropriate bodies of the Basel Convention.