At its seventeenth meeting in May 2025 by its decision BC-17/23, the Conference of the Parties welcomed the entry into force of the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships and took note of the information provided by the secretariat of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on the provisional guidance on the implementation of the Hong Kong and Basel conventions with respect to the transboundary movement of ships intended for recycling approved by the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee at its eighty-second session.
Further, the Conference of the Parties invited Parties and observers to submit to the Secretariat, by 15 November 2025, comments on the provisional guidance referred above and any other additional comments from the perspective of the Basel Convention on the implementation of the Hong Kong and Basel conventions with respect to the transboundary movement of ships intended for recycling.