The revised amendment proposal was developed following an initial amendment proposal by the European Union put forward for consideration by the Conference of the Parties during its fifteenth meeting. The proposal was considered during the face-to-face segment of the meeting (6-17 June 2022) at what time the Conference of the Parties, in its decision BC-15/19 on further legal clarity (link to the decision), among others, requested the Open-ended Working Group to consider the proposals by the European Union to amend Annex IV and certain entries in Annexes II and IX to the Basel Convention and the recommendations and findings of the expert working group taking into account the discussions at the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, as well as the progress made in the review of Annexes I and III, and to provide recommendations for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its sixteenth meeting.
The proposal was considered again during the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties at what time the Conference of the Parties, in its decision BC-16/15 on legal clarity, among others, requested the expert working group on the review of Annexes to consider the proposal and the recommendations and findings of the expert working group and develop revised amendment proposals on Annex IV for consideration by the Open-ended Working Group at its fourteenth meeting, and decided to consider at its seventeenth meeting the revised amendment proposals for Annex IV.