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The Ninth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP9) to the Basel Convention 23-27 June 2008 in Bali, Indonesia |
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Highlights for Friday, 27 June 2008
The ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP9) to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal convened for its final day on Friday. Delegates met during the morning in COW to discuss and agree on various draft decisions, including on the: review of the operation of Basel Convention Regional Centres; work plan for the Nairobi Declaration on the ESM of electrical and electronic waste; Basel Convention Partnership Programme; budget; and guidance document on the ESM of used and end-of-life mobile phones.
Plenary adopted over thirty decisions, inter alia: legal matters; the President’s initiative on the Ban Amendment; technical matters; and ship dismantling. After congratulating delegates on their hard work throughout the week President Kartaadipoetra gavelled the meeting to a close at 9:12pm.
6.16pm Update - plenary adjourned until 7.45pm
6.00pm Update - COP9 in plenary adopted decisions on legal and financial matters. Consideration of draft decisions continues.
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| COP9 President Rachmat Nadi Witoelar Kartaadipoetra opened the plenary in the afternoon. |
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| Chair Mary Harwood opened the final session of the COW. |
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| Cosima Hufler, Austria | Bernardo Li, Canada | Andrea Repetti, Argentina |
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| Ali Baz, Pakistan | Otavio Trindade, Brazil | Arvind Boaz, SACEP |
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| Participants conferred during the session. | |
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| Dessalegne Mesfin, Ethiopia | Marco Buletti, Switzerland | Jim Puckett, BAN |
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- IISD RS coverage of the Eighth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP8) to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, 27 November-1 December 2006, Nairobi, Kenya - http://enb.iisd.org/basel/cop8/
- IISD RS coverage of the Fifth Session of the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (OEWG5), 3-7 April 2006, Geneva, Switzerland - http://enb.iisd.org/basel/oewg5/
- IISD RS coverage of the Seventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP7) to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, 25-29 October 2004, Geneva, Switzerland - http://enb.iisd.org/basel/cop7/
- IISD RS coverage of the Sixth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP6) to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, 9-14 December 2002, Geneva, Switzerland - http://enb.iisd.org/basel/cop6/
- IISD RS coverage of the Fifth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP5) to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, 6-10 December 1999, Basel, Switzerland - http://enb.iisd.org/basel/cop5/
- A Brief Introduction to the Basel Convention - http://enb.iisd.org/process/chemical_management-baselintro.htm
- IISD RS "Linkages" archive of Basel Convention meetings - http://enb.iisd.org/process/chemical_management.htm#basel
- Linkages Update - http://enb.iisd.org/email/linkagesupdate.htm
- MEA Bulletin - http://enb.iisd.org/email/mea-l/
- Basel Convention - http://www.basel.int/
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