Other guidance and tools

Guidance on national reporting

The Guidance Document on Improving National Reporting was developed by the Implementation and Compliance Committee to assist national technical officials with the preparation of the national reports. The Guidance pertains to the format for reporting 2015 and prior years. It will be updated to address revisions to the reporting format adopted by decisions BC-12/6 and BC-13/9.

This document is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

The Revised guidance document on improving national reporting by Parties to the Basel Convention is available here.

Benchmark report aimed at facilitating reporting under paragraph 3 of Article 13 of the Basel Convention

The Benchmark report was developed by the Implementation and Compliance Committee of the Basel Convention. The report is intended to demonstrate what a national report might ideally look like, and to give some advice on what to avoid when preparing the national report. The Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention during its tenth meeting took note of the report and encouraged Parties to use it. The Guidance pertains to the format for reporting 2015 and prior years. It will be updated to address revisions to the reporting format adopted by decisions BC-12/6 and BC-13/9. The report is available here.

The version addressing revisions to the reporting format adopted by decisions BC-12/6 and BC-13/9 is available here.

Waste Without Frontiers II

This document is the second analysis of the data transmitted under Article 13 and covers the period between 2007 and 2015. The national reports submitted by Parties are available on the web site of the Convention. The previous analysis covered the period from 2004 to 2006. It is available here.