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Ninth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention (OEWG-9)
16-19 September 2014 | Geneva, Switzerland
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Highlights for Thursday, 18 September 2014
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On Thursday, 18 September, OEWG-9 convened in contact groups and Friends of the Co-Chairs groups.
In the morning, the contact group on technical matters completed its review of the technical guidelines for persistent organic pollutants (POPs), by discussing wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with hexabromodiphenyl ether, heptabromodiphenyl ether, tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether (PBDEs); and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD).
The Friends of the Co-Chairs group on the Cartagena Declaration met in the morning, as did the group on paragraph 26(b) of the e-waste guidelines (conditions under which used electrical and electronic equipment would normally be considered waste), which intended to provide input to the technical matters contact group in the afternoon.
At lunch, delegates attended side events on advancing environmentally-sound management in the field and on the Sustainable Recycling Industries Programme.
In the afternoon, in the contact group on technical matters, delegates heard a report from the Friends of the Co-Chairs group on paragraph 26(b) and then considered a proposed draft decision on e-waste prepared by the EU. They then briefly considered the rest of the draft technical guidelines on e-waste.
The contact group on legal matters also met during the afternoon, discussing which terms to include in the glossary of terms and a draft decision on the way forward, and continued this discussion into the evening. |
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Henrik Hallgrim Eriksen, Norway |
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Delegates discussing the results of the contact group on e-waste |
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Sonia Valdivia, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) and Matthias Kern, BRS Secretariat |
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