During its online segment (1-3 September 2020), following its consideration of the item on consultations with the Implementation and Compliance Committee, the OEWG-12 agreed to invite Parties and observers to submit comments on the revised guidance on the implementation of paragraph 11 of Article 6 of the Convention on insurance, bond and guarantee set out in the annex to document UNEP/CHW/OEWG.12/INF/24 to the Secretariat by 15 September 2020, and to invite the Implementation and Compliance Committee to take the comments received into account in revising the documents for submission to the Conference of the Parties at its fifteenth meeting. The Group also agreed to allow a small number of Parties that had highlighted difficulties in meeting the above-mentioned deadline to submit their written comments by 21 September 2020, on the understanding that the Implementation and Compliance Committee was to meet from 21 to 25 September 2020 to finalize the guidance.
The comments received in writing during the online segment and subsequently to the segment by 15 September 2020 are set out in the table below. For information on the fourteenth meeting of the Committee, please see here.