By its decision BC-17/21 on work programme of the Open-ended Working Group for the period 2026-2027, the Conference of the Parties invited Parties and observers to submit, by 15 November 2025, comments, including relevant data where applicable, regarding experiences, challenges and costs related to trade in used textiles and textile wastes, as well as views on how transboundary movements of textile wastes and their management could be addressed under the Basel Convention.
The Secretariat was requested, subject to the availability of resources, to compile the comments submitted and to prepare a report on possible options available under the Basel Convention to address used textiles and textile wastes, taking into consideration the comments received, for consideration by the Open-ended Working Group at its fifteenth meeting in June 2026.