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Twelfth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention

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Items: 2		Files: 4
UNEP/CHW.12/27	Report of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal on the work of its twelfth meeting
UNEP/CHW.12/27/Corr.1	Report of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal on the work of its twelfth meeting

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Items: 25		Files: 50
BC-12/1	Follow-up to the Indonesian-Swiss country-led initiative to improve the effectiveness of the Basel Convention
BC-12/2	Road map for action on the implementation of the Cartagena Declaration
BC-12/3	Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants
BC-12/4	Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with mercury
BC-12/5	Technical guidelines on transboundary movements of electrical and electronic waste and used electrical and electronic equipment, in particular regarding the distinction between waste and non-waste under the Basel Convention
BC-12/6	National reporting
BC-12/7	Committee for Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance of the Basel Convention
BC-12/8	National legislation, notifications, enforcement of the Convention and efforts to combat illegal traffic
BC-12/9	Technical assistance
BC-12/10	Basel Convention regional and coordinating centres for training and technology transfer
BC-12/11	Implementation of decision V/32 on the enlargement of the scope of the Trust Fund to Assist Developing and Other Countries in Need of Technical Assistance in the Implementation of the Basel Convention
BC-12/12	Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment
BC-12/13	Creating innovative solutions through the Basel Convention for the environmentally sound management of household waste
BC-12/14	Environmental Network for Optimizing Regulatory Compliance on Illegal Traffic
BC-12/15	Environmentally sound dismantling of ships
BC-12/16	Cooperation between the Basel Convention and the International Maritime Organization
BC-12/17	International cooperation and coordination
BC-12/18	Implementation of the integrated approach to financing
BC-12/19	Work programme and operations of the Open-ended Working Group for the biennium 2016-2017
BC-12/20	Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions
BC-12/21	Clearing-house mechanism for information exchange
BC-12/22	From science to action
BC-12/23	Venue and date of the next meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions
BC-12/24	Draft memorandum of understanding between the United Nations Environment Programme and the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
BC-12/25	Programme of work and budget for the Basel Convention for the biennium 2016-2017

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Items: 54		Files: 108
UNEP/CHW.12/1	Provisional agenda
UNEP/CHW.12/1/Add.1	Annotations to the provisional agenda
UNEP/CHW.12/2	Election of officers
UNEP/CHW.12/3	Follow-up to the Indonesian-Swiss country-led initiative to improve the effectiveness of the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.12/3/Add.1	Follow-up on the Indonesian-Swiss country-lead initiative to improve the effectiveness of the Basel Convention: report on the activities and the draft work programme of the expert working group on environmentally sound management
UNEP/CHW.12/3/Add.2	Follow-up to the Indonesian-Swiss country-led initiative to improve the effectiveness of the Basel Convention: a set of practical manuals for the promotion of the environmentally sound management of wastes
UNEP/CHW.12/4	Report on progress in the implementation of the strategic framework
UNEP/CHW.12/5	Technical guidelines
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.1	Technical guidelines: technical guidelines on transboundary movements of electronic and electrical waste and used electrical and electronic equipment, in particular regarding the distinction between waste and non waste under the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.1/Rev.1	Technical guidelines: Technical guidelines on transboundary movements of electrical and electronic waste and used electrical and electronic equipment, in particular regarding the distinction between waste and non-waste under the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.2	Technical guidelines: updated general technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.2/Rev.1	Technical guidelines: General technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.3	Technical guidelines: Technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), its salts and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride (PFOSF)
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.3/Rev.1	Technical guidelines: Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, its salts and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.4	Technical guidelines: updated technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes containing or contaminated with unintentionally produced polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, hexachlorobenzene, polychlorinated biphenyls or pentachlorobenzene
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.4/Rev.1	Technical guidelines: Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes containing or contaminated with unintentionally produced polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, hexachlorobenzene, polychlorinated biphenyls or pentachlorobenzene
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.5	Technical guidelines: updated technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs) or polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs), including hexabromobiphenyl (HBB)
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.5/Rev.1	Technical guidelines: Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated terphenyls or polybrominated biphenyls including hexabromobiphenyl
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.6	Technical guidelines: technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with hexabromodiphenyl ether and heptabromodiphenyl ether, and tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.6/Rev.1	Technical guidelines: Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with hexabromodiphenyl ether and heptabromodiphenyl ether, or tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.7	Technical guidelines: technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with hexabromocyclododecane
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.7/Rev.1	Technical guidelines: Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with hexabromocyclododecane
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.8	Technical guidelines: Updated technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing, or contaminated with mercury or mercury compounds
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.8/Rev.1	Technical guidelines: Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with mercury or mercury compounds
UNEP/CHW.12/5/Add.9	Technical guidelines: Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with the pesticides aldrin, alpha hexachlorocyclohexane, beta hexachlorocyclohexane, chlordane, chlordecone, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene, lindane, mirex, pentachlorobenzene, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, technical endosulfan and its related isomers or toxaphene or with hexachlorobenzene as an industrial chemical
UNEP/CHW.12/6	Applications for new entries to Annex IX to the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.12/7	Classification and hazard characterization of wastes: review of cooperation with the World Customs Organization and its Harmonized System Committee
UNEP/CHW.12/8/Rev.1	National reporting
UNEP/CHW.12/9	Committee for Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance of the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.12/9/Add.1	Committee for Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance of the Basel Convention: methodological guide for the development of inventories of hazardous wastes and other wastes under the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.12/9/Add.2	Committee for Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance of the Basel Convention: guidance on the implementation of the Basel Convention illegal traffic take-back provision (paragraph 2 of Article 9)
UNEP/CHW.12/9/Add.3	Committee for Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance of the Basel Convention: guide to the control system
UNEP/CHW.12/9/Add.3/Rev.1	Committee for Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance of the Basel Convention: guide to the control system
UNEP/CHW.12/9/Add.4	Committee for Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance of the Basel Convention: Manual for the implementation of the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.12/9/Add.4/Rev.1	Committee for Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance of the Basel Convention: Manual for the implementation of the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.12/10	Road map for action on the implementation of the Cartagena Declaration
UNEP/CHW.12/11	National legislation, notifications, enforcement of the Convention and efforts to combat illegal traffic
UNEP/CHW.12/12	Basel Convention regional and coordinating centres
UNEP/CHW.12/13	Technical assistance and capacity-building for the implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/14	Implementation of decision V/32 on the enlargement of the scope of the Trust Fund to Assist Developing and Other Countries in Need of Technical Assistance in the Implementation of the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.12/15	Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment
UNEP/CHW.12/16	Environmental Network for Optimizing Regulatory Compliance on Illegal Traffic
UNEP/CHW.12/17	Environmentally sound dismantling of ships
UNEP/CHW.12/18	Cooperation between the Basel Convention and the International Maritime Organization
UNEP/CHW.12/19	International cooperation and coordination (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/20/Rev.1	Facilitating financial resources for chemicals and wastes (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/21	Work programme and operations of the Open-ended Working Group for the biennium 2016–2017
UNEP/CHW.12/22	Programmes of work and proposed budgets for the biennium 2016–2017: combined proposal including joint activities (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/23/Rev.1	Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/24	Admission of observers
UNEP/CHW.12/25	Draft memorandum of understanding between the United Nations Environment Programme and the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
UNEP/CHW.12/26	Clearing-house mechanism for information exchange (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/27	Report of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal on the work of its twelfth meeting
UNEP/CHW.12/27/Corr.1	Report of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal on the work of its twelfth meeting

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UNEP/CHW.12/INF/1	Scenario note for the meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/2	Tentative schedule of work of the meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/3	Contributions to the technical cooperation and voluntary special trust funds of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions in the biennium 2014–2015 (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/4	Provisional list of meeting documents organized by provisional agenda item
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/5	Updated report on the creation of a baseline for the mid-term and final evaluations of the strategic framework
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/6	Follow-up to the Indonesian-Swiss country-led initiative to improve the effectiveness of the Basel Convention: Fact sheets on specific waste streams and a report assessing possible incentives to encourage the private sector to invest in environmentally sound management
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/7	Technical guidelines on transboundary movements of electrical and electronic waste and used electrical and electronic equipment, in particular regarding the distinction between waste and non-waste under the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/8	Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with mercury or mercury compounds
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/9	General technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/10	Technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), its salts and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride (PFOSF)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/11	Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with unintentionally produced polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, hexachlorobenzene, polychlorinated biphenyls or pentachlorobenzene
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/12	Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs) or polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs), including hexabromobiphenyl (HBB)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/13	Technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with hexabromodiphenyl ether and heptabromodiphenyl ether, and tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/14	Technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with hexabromocyclododecane
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/15	Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with the pesticides aldrin, alpha hexachlorocyclohexane, beta hexachlorocyclohexane, chlordane, chlordecone, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene, lindane, mirex, pentachlorobenzene, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, technical endosulfan and its related isomers or toxaphene or with hexachlorobenzene as an industrial chemical
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/16	Draft reporting format for the Basel Convention national reporting
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/16/Rev.1	Reporting format for the Basel Convention national reporting
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/17	Additional information on national reporting
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/18	Committee for Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance of the Basel Convention: operation of the implementation fund
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/19	Committee for Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance of the Basel Convention: national reporting individual compliance performance
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/20	Report on the activities of the Basel and Stockholm conventions regional centres (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/21	Draft evaluation report on the performance and sustainability of the regional centres under the Basel and Stockholm conventions (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/22	Capacity-building and training activities organized by the Secretariat from May 2013 to December 2014 (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/23	Capacity-building and training activities planned by the Secretariat for 2015 (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/24	Report on the technical assistance needs of developing country parties and parties with economies in transition for the implementation of the Basel Convention and the technical assistance available from developed country parties and others
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/25	Technical assistance programme for the implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions over the biennium 2016-2017 (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/26	Progress report by the co-chairs of the Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment Working Group
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/27	Additional documents developed by the Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/28	Progress report by the chair of the Environmental Network for Optimizing Regulatory Compliance on Illegal Traffic
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/29/Rev.1	Revised assessment prepared by the Public Waste Agency of Flanders, on behalf of Belgium, on how far the current Basel Convention technical guidelines cover wastes covered by the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto, and as further amended by the Protocol of 1997
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/30	Membership of the Committee for Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance of the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/31	Report on activities pertaining to international cooperation and coordination (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/32	Section I of resolution 1/5 of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme on strengthening the sound management of chemicals and wastes in the long term (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/33	Checklist on the integrated approach to financing options for chemicals and wastes for use by Secretariat staff (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/34	Terms of reference for the special programme to support institutional strengthening at the national level for implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, the Minamata Convention and the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/35	Compilation of comments on the arrangements that were made for the ninth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/36	Programmes of work and proposed budgets for the biennium 2016-2017: proposed operational budgets for the two funding scenarios (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/37	Information on the organization structure of the Secretariat as of 8 December 2014 (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/38	Programmes of work and proposed budgets for the biennium 2016-2017: budget activity fact sheets (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/39	Information on financial matters
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/40	Updated information on financial matters
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/41	Options for incentives and measures related to arrears in core budget contributions (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/42	Report on cost savings resulting from synergies among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions for the period 2012-2013 (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/43	Report on the audit of the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions by the Office of Internal Oversight Services (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/44	Status of ratification of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/45	Report on the implementation of joint and convention-specific activities contained in the 2014 - 2015 programme budgets of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/46	Admission of observers: report on experiences with using the application forms and practices followed (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/47/Rev.1	Admission of observers: bodies or agencies requesting admission to participate in meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/48	Compilation of comments received from parties on revising the reporting format for Basel Convention national reporting
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/49	Mainstreaming gender in the Secretariat (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/50	Draft strategy for further development and operation of the joint clearing-house mechanism for the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/51	Analysis on possible synergies in preventing and combating illegal traffic and trade in hazardous chemicals and wastes
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/52	Follow-up to the Indonesian-Swiss country-led initiative to improve the effectiveness of the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/53	Secretariat’s approach for mainstreaming science in the implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/54	Integrating chemicals and wastes management into the post-2015 United Nations development agenda and the sustainable development goals (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/55	Comments from parties and others on the draft glossary of terms: Providing further legal clarity
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/56	Submission by the United Nations Environment Programme on a progress report on the UNEP/UNEA Resolution 1/12 on the relationship between the United Nations Environment Programme and multilateral environmental agreements (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/57	Regional statements during the opening session (joint document)
UNEP/CHW.12/INF/58	List of participants to the meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (joint document)

Call for information and follow-up to COP-12

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List of participants

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Election of officers

At its twelfth meeting, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention elected a new Bureau and members of subsidiary bodies under the Convention.

Officers / members elected at BC COP 12

Full meeting website of the 2015 COPs meetings

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