In its resolution 3/9, the United Nations Environment Assembly invited the COP to consider updating the technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management (ESM) of waste lead-acid batteries. It was recommended during the OEWG-12 face-to-face meetings that the COP should decide to update those technical guidelines.
At its fifteenth meeting, by decision BC-15/11, the COP decided to update the technical guidelines on ESM of waste lead-acid batteries and to develop a draft of the technical guidelines on ESM of waste batteries other than waste lead-acid batteries for consideration during COP-16. For more information, please refer to the Technical Guidelines.
At the sixteenth meeting, the COP decided to continue the work on the both the technical guidelines on ESM of waste lead-acid batteries and ESM of Other waste batteries for consideration of the fourteenth meeting of the OEWG, in 2024 and consideration and possible adoption by COP17, in 2025. (Decision BC-16/6).
At the seventeenth meeting, the COP decided to continue the work on both technical guidelines for consideration of the fifteenth meetings of the OEWG, in 2026 and consideration and possible adoption by COP18, in 2027. (Decision BC-17/5).