Geneva, Switzerland, from 24 to 26 November 2025
Venue: Room Rhin, Aare and Rhone, International Environment House II, 7-9 chemin de Balexert, CH-1219 Châtelaine
Format: The seventh meeting of the expert working group will be convened face-to-face. Registered members or observers not in a position to participate in person in the meeting may receive, upon request to the Secretariat, an online viewer access allowing them to follow the meeting without the right to intervene. Viewers are not included in the list of participants to the meeting.
Highlights: In line with decision BC-17/16, the expert working group will continue to develop draft recommendations on the review of Annexes I and III, taking into account the comments received from Parties and observers on its draft recommendations (status as at 2 December 2023) and discussions at the seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, for consideration by the Open-ended Working Group at its fifteenth meeting and the Conference of the Parties at its eighteenth meeting.
The Secretariat gratefully acknowledges the European Union for its generous financial support to the work of the expert working group.
Working language: English