• UK comments on proposal to amend Basel Convention technical guidelines on specially engineered landfill (D5) and incineration on land (D10)
• New Chemicals on OSPAR List of Chemicals for Priority Action
• Comments from Taiwan on the Implementation of Technical Guidelines
• Comments received from Parties and Others in response to decision VII/2 "Hazardous waste minimization"

Includes all the versions of the technical guidelines from the first to the last draft as well as the final version (if adopted). Comments sent by Parties and Others on each draft are also included. All the information is classified by topic i.e. POPs, PCB, DDT, etc.

The technical guidelines on POPs, PCBs, DDT, dioxin and furans, and pesticides wastes have been adopted at COP8. The final text of all the five guidelines can be found in the 'Legal, Technical and Scientific Guidelines, Guidance and Training Manuals' collection in the Publications section.

• Draft Technical Guidelines on the ESM of Mercury Waste. Draft of 5 January 2010.
• Structure of the 4th and 5th draft of the mercury guidelines

• Comments received from Parties and others on the decisison VIII/16 - Review and update the technical guidelines on persistent organic pollutant (POP) wastes, if appropriate, and review disposal methods when the POP content in wastes is beneath low POP content.
• Comments received before COP8
• Comments received after COP8 (decision VIII/16)
• Comments received after OEWG6 (decision OEWG VI/5)
• Members of the Intersessional Working Group for the Development of Technical Guidelines on POPs as Wastes.
• STAP Report: Review of Emerging, Innovative Technologies for the Destruction and Decontamination of POPs and the Identification of Promising Technologies for use in Developing Countries. 
• Please note that the final report of the study to facilitate the implementation of certain waste related provisions of the EU-Regulation on POPs is available on the Environment section in the web site of the European Commission
• Submission by the European Community and its Member States related to Stockholm COP decision SC-3/5 Guidelines on best available techniques and draft guidance on best environmental practices

• Report of the 31st Session of the WCO/Harmonised System Review Sub-Committee, 17 - 25 May 2005
• Outcome of the 39th Session of the WCO Harmonised System Committee March 2007
• Separate identification in the World Customs Organization Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System of certain wastes in Annexes VIII and IX to the Basel Convention 
• Table establishing an interconnection between the Harmonized System and selected international Conventions (source: World Customs Organization's website)
• Updating of the table establishing a correlation between the Harmonized system and selected international conventions (Update Background, Update of the correlation table)

Revised notification and movement documents for transboundary movements/shipments of waste, adopted at COP8, and instructions for completing these documents (Word, PDF)

Summary of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM) and Ninth Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum. 4-9 February 2006. 

Please find the Draft Technical Guidelines on Co-processing of Hazardous Waste in Cement Kilns ( Nov. 9, 2009 version) submitted by Chile as lead country. Comments are invited from Parties and other stakeholders by 31 January 2010 to SBC (ibrahim.shafii@unep.ch and copy to Mr. Julio Monreal at jmonreal@minsal.gov.cl.

• Draft technical guidelines on the ESM of used tyres (30 November 2008). Comments received from Parties and Others. You can access all the previous versions of the Technical Guidelines on Used Tyres as well as comment received from Parties and others on the compilations section)
• Members of the small intersessional working group on the revised technical guidelines on the ESM of used tyres
• Format proposal for comments to the Technical Guidelines on Environmentally Sound Management of Used Tyres. August 5, 2008

• Guidance document on the application of hazard characteristic H10 of Annex III
• Discussion Paper: Basel Hazardous Characteristic H11 De Minimis Values And GHS: Initial Questions. Drafted by US Environmental Protection Agency. 25 April, 2005. Comments received from Parties and others.
• List of nominated experts for the Joint Correspondence Group GHS-Basel Convention

• Report On E-Waste Inventory Project In Malaysia
• Report of the Project on ‘The Import/Export Management of E-waste and Used EEE’ in Asia
• Meeting on electric and electronic waste in Africa, 16 - 17 May 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
• Side event on electric and electronic waste under the Basel Convention held on Sunday, 10th May at the 2nd Session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM2), Geneva
• Submission by the European Community and its Member States related to decision OEWG-VI/23 on e-waste: workplan for 2009-2010
• Final Report of DOWA Mobile Phone Pilot Project in South East Asia
• Technical Report on National Inventory of Used EEE in Cambodia, May 2007
• Development of E-Waste Inventory in Thailand. Final Report. June 2007.
• Development Of E-Waste Inventory In Vietnam. Final Report. July 2007
• Analysis of used vehicles and used EEE exports from Hamburg port
• Asia-Pacific Regional Inception Workshop on the Environmentally Sound Management of Electronic and Electrical Wastes, Tokyo, Japan, 21-25 November 2005
• Development of Technical Guidelines for Electrical and Electronic Waste Inventory (E-Waste) and Environmentally Sound Management 5 R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair and Refurbishment) of E-Waste : BCRC SEA
• Final report of the study - "Facilitating Partnerships for Environmentally Sound Management of e-Waste in India"

• Report on the relationship of chlorine input to dioxin output from combustion systems
• Tracing papers. Scientific data on health and the environment: New scientific information about PVC
• European Comission: Life Cycle Assessment of PVC and of principal competing materials. Executive Summary
• European Comission: Life Cycle Assessment of PVC and of principal competing materials. Extended Summary
• European Comission: Life Cycle Assessment of PVC and of principal competing materials. Final Report

Annex VIII (List A) of the Basel Comvention refers to those wastes which are characterized as hazardous under Article 1, paragraph 1 (a), of the Basel Convention, and their designation on this Annex does not preclude the use of Annex III to demonstrate that a waste is not hazardous.

• Annex VIII to the Basel Convention: comments received from Parties and others after OEWG6

Wastes contained in the Annex IX (List B) will not be wastes covered by Article 1, paragraph 1 (a), of the Basel Convention unless they contain Annex I material to an extent causing them to exhibit an Annex III characteristic

• Circular on the national classification and control procedures for the import of wastes contained in Annex IX . May 2003 rev.2 (PDF format, Word format). Responses provided by Parties: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 , 6
• The information contained in the following documents: Letter of Ukraine and Circular on Annex IX replaces the feedback that was received from Ukraine in February 2003
• Consolidated report and analysis of the questionnaires concerning national classification and control procedures for wastes listed in Annex IX to the Basel Convention
• Annex IX to the Basel Convention: reponses provided by Parties