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Background

Background information on the Joint Working Group

JWG2

The Second Session of the Joint Working Group of the International Labour Organization, the International Maritime Organization and the Basel Convention on Ship Scrapping was held at the United Nations Office at Geneva, from 12 to 14 December 2005

Documents

Documents issued for each meeting of the Joint Working Group, and the final report for each meeting may be accessed here.

Terms of reference

Terms of reference for the joint ILO/IMO/Basel Convention Working Group as approved by the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties. Five Parties were approved by the COP7 to represent the Basel Convention in the Joint Working Group

Relevant links

For information on ILO activities on ship breaking under the InFocus Programme on Safety and Health at Work and the Environment click here.
For information on IMO activities on ship recycling, click here and then select "Ship recycling" on the "Marine Environment" page.


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