× 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. Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of waste lead-acid batteries and on other waste batteries Document type Decision Reference number OEWG-14/5 Date Jun 25, 2024 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 Fourteenth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention (OEWG-14) Website www.informea.org Full text UNEP-CHW-OEWG.14-OEWG-14-5.English.docx UNEP-CHW-OEWG.14-OEWG-14-5.English.pdf UNEP-CHW-OEWG.14-OEWG-14-5.French.pdf UNEP-CHW-OEWG.14-OEWG-14-5.French.docx UNEP-CHW-OEWG.14-OEWG-14-5.Russian.docx UNEP-CHW-OEWG.14-OEWG-14-5.Russian.pdf UNEP-CHW-OEWG.14-OEWG-14-5.Spanish.docx UNEP-CHW-OEWG.14-OEWG-14-5.Spanish.pdf UNEP-CHW-OEWG.14-OEWG-14-5.Chinese.docx UNEP-CHW-OEWG.14-OEWG-14-5.Chinese.pdf UNEP-CHW-OEWG.14-OEWG-14-5.Arabic.pdf UNEP-CHW-OEWG.14-OEWG-14-5.Arabic.docx Abstract The Open-ended Working Group 1. Welcomes the contributions made by China and Uruguay and by the European Union, as co-leads, and by the small intersessional working group established pursuant to paragraph 6 of decision BC-15/11, in preparing draft updated technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of waste lead-acid batteries and draft technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of other waste batteries;