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The Basel Convention mechanism for promoting the implementation and compliance - Celebrating a decade of assistance to Parties

25 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Synergies Success Stories - Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions

… Plan ODS Ozone-Depleting Substance OEWG Open-ended Working Group OPCW Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical … ministry or agency . In that case, the staff is directly working with col- leagues responsible for other conventions …
25 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Ratification and Implementation Guidelines

… 35 37 39 39 40 41 Contents Foreword About the Zero Mercury Working Group About the Manual Intended Users Reason for the Manual … Len- nett and Richard Gutierrez, and to the Zero Mercury Working Group, for preparing this excellent publica- tion. …
25 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Ridding the world of POPs - A guide to the Stockholm Convention on POPs

… (PFOS-F) have extensive industrial applications. A group of chemicals known as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) … (PFOS-F) have extensive industrial applications. A group of chemicals known as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) … to the Parties to the Convention, who decide as a group whether and how to list the proposed chemical. New POPs …
25 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Vital Waste Graphics 3

… Agency Office of Solid Waste and Eastern Research Group, 2008. Obsolete electronics in the United States … The most numerous are probably informal waste pickers working on landfills in many cities in the developing world. … RECYCLING BUSINESSES MARKET The European Commission is working on regulations for the status of secondary raw …
25 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Basel Convention: Institutional framework and the synergies process - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… two standing subsidiaries bodies: a. The Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) is to, among other things, assist the Conference … all three Conventions agreed to establish an ad hoc joint working group (AHJWG) to prepare joint recommendations on …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Chemicals and Waste

Global Mercury Assessment

… and mercury air transport and fate; AMAP mercury expert group; UN Economic Commission for Europe (UN ECE) Long-range … aquatic environment benefits from contributions from the Group of Experts on Scientific Aspects of Marine …
25 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Environmentally sound management of used electrical and electronic equipment (e-waste) in Asia-Pacific

… in April 2005 and at the fourth session of the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention in July 2005. Environmentally …
25 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

POPs Review Committee – Listing new chemicals

… ether) to Annex A Bromodiphenyl ether congeners are a group of brominated organic substances that inhibit or …
25 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Introduction to the Minamata Convention on Mercury - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… and mercury compounds. In 2007, an ad hoc open-ended working group (OEWG) was established to review and assess options for …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Chemicals and Waste