Venue of the meeting
Room 3
International Environment House I,
11-13, Chemin des Anémones,
CH-1219 Geneva,
Switzerlandv
Email: brs@un.org
Internet: www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/environment-house
Schedule of the meeting
The meeting will open at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, 18 June 2026. The tentative schedule of the meeting is to be made available in document (UNEP/CHW/CC.17/INF/1).
Meeting documents
The meeting will be paperless. The provisional agenda, other pre-session documents, including the tentative schedule of work, are made available on the meeting documents webpage.
Language of the meeting
The working language of the meeting is English.
Registration and security identification
Registration for the meeting will start at 08:00 a.m. on Thursday, 18 June 2026.
Security identification badges are issued to participants upon arrival at the meeting and upon completion of the relevant registration procedure (and admissions procedure for observers, if applicable).
Meeting participants may collect their security identification badges at the registration desk upon presentation of one of the following identification documents:
- Valid national passport issued by a government recognized by the United Nations;
- Valid national ID card issued by a Schengen State;
- Valid travel document recognized by the United Nations.
To facilitate the badging procedure, participants are also advised to have available a copy of the confirmation letter transmitted by the Secretariat.
Observers
Meetings of the Implementation and Compliance Committee are open to Parties and the public unless the Committee decides otherwise.
When the Committee is dealing with specific submissions, the meetings shall not be open to other Parties or the public unless the Committee and the Party whose compliance is in question agrees otherwise.
For information on how to participate in the seventeenth meeting of the Implementation and Compliance Committee as observers, please refer to the notification to observers.
Representative of Parties as well as bodies and entities that have already been admitted to past meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention or its subsidiary bodies need to register using the BRS online registration system via the following link: https://registration.brsmeas.org. A nomination letter from the relevant body or agency must be uploaded in the online registration system at the time of registration. The deadline for registration in the online platform is Friday, 8 May 2026. The Secretariat strongly encourages early registration.
Bodies or entities that have not previously been represented as observers at meetings of the Conference of the Parties and that wish to be represented as observers at the upcoming meeting, are required to complete the procedure for admission. The relevant application form and further information on this procedure are available on the Basel Convention website (https://www.basel.int/tabid/3658). The deadline for completion of the observer admission procedures is Friday, 1 May 2026. The observer admission procedure does not apply to observers from Parties to the Convention or to observers from the United Nations and its specialized agencies; the International Atomic Energy Agency; as well as any State not Party to the Basel Convention.
Guidelines for rules of conduct for meeting participants
In addition to the rules of procedure the attention of meeting participants is drawn to the following guidelines for rules of conduct developed by the Secretariat:
- Guidelines on the use of cameras and audio/video recording devices by participants at meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (BRS) and their subsidiary bodies;
- Guidelines for the participation of representatives of observers at meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (BRS) and their subsidiary bodies;
- Guidelines on preventing and addressing all forms of harassment at meetings of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions.