By decision BC-17/3, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention invited Parties and observers to submit to the Secretariat, by 30 September 2025, comments on the general technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants, in particular on the low persistent organic pollutant content values included in those technical guidelines and in other technical guidelines, as appropriate, and examples of waste streams with low persistent organic pollutant content values above or below the values applied at the national level, along with related information, including on studies, together with methods and methodologies for the determination of the low persistent organic pollutant content values, taking into account relevant information available in the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.