The Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention (OEWG) considered the matter during its eleventh meeting at what time it adopted decision OEWG-11/12 on providing further legal clarity whereby it, among other things:
- Invited Parties and others to submit to the Secretariat, by 31 October 2018, comments on the possible way forward leading up to the fifteenth and sixteenth meetings of the Conference of the Parties, as presented in appendix II to document UNEP/CHW/OEWG.11/INF/30 and requested the Secretariat to publish comments received on the website of the Basel Convention and to compile those comments for consideration by the expert working group;
- Requested the expert working group to prepare recommendations for revisions to Annex IV and Annex IX (B1110) for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its fourteenth meeting;
- Requests the Secretariat to make available to Parties and observers, by 8 January 2019, the recommendations for revisions to Annex IV and Annex IX (B1110), invited Parties and others to submit to the Secretariat, by 15 March 2019, comments thereon, and requested the Secretariat to publish comments received on the website of the Basel Convention and to compile those comments for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its fourteenth meeting;
- Also recommended that the Conference of the Parties at its fourteenth meeting consider including the review of entry B1110 and the review of mirror entry A1180 in the terms of reference of the expert working group;
- Suggested that the Conference of the Parties at its fourteenth meeting consider extending the mandate of the expert working group to enable it to assess the implications of the review of Annexes I, III and IV for other annexes of the Convention and for relevant decisions of the Conference of the Parties, inter alia, for the notification and movement documents and the reporting format, and to report on its findings to the Open-ended Working Group at its twelfth meeting.