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

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UNEP/CHW.8/16	Report of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal on its eighth meeting

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BC-VIII/1	Côte d’Ivoire
BC-VIII/2	Creating innovative solutions through the Basel Convention for the environmentally sound management of electrical and electronic wastes
BC-VIII/3	Establishment of the Basel Convention Regional Centre for South Asia at the SACEP secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka
BC-VIII/4	Basel Convention Regional and Coordinating Centres
BC-VIII/5	Basel Convention Partnership Programme
BC-VIII/6	Mobile Phone Partnership Initiative
BC-VIII/7	International cooperation and coordination
BC-VIII/8	Cooperation and coordination between the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
BC-VIII/9	Cooperation between the Basel Convention and the International Maritime Organization
BC-VIII/10	Work programme of the Open-ended Working Group for 2007–2008
BC-VIII/11	VIII/11: Environmentally sound management of ship dismantling
BC-VIII/12	Joint Working Group of the International Labour Organization, the International Maritime Organization and the Basel Convention on Ship Scrapping
BC-VIII/13	VIII/13: Abandonment of ships on land or in ports
BC-VIII/14	Reporting
BC-VIII/15	Revisions to the procedure for the review or adjustment of the lists of wastes contained in Annexes VIII and IX and the status of decision VII/21
BC-VIII/16	Technical guidelines on persistent organic pollutants
BC-VIII/17	Technical guidelines on environmentally sound management
BC-VIII/18	Harmonization of forms for notification and movement documents and related instructions
BC-VIII/19	Working relationship with the United Nations Subcommittee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
BC-VIII/20	Separate identification in the World Customs Organization Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System of certain wastes in Annexes VIII and IX to the Basel Convention
BC-VIII/21	Classification and hazard characterization of wastes
BC-VIII/22	National classification and control procedures for the import of wastes contained in Annex IX
BC-VIII/23	Implementation of decision VII/2 on hazardous waste minimization
BC-VIII/24	Illegal traffic: Outline of an instruction manual for the legal profession
BC-VIII/25	Protocol on liability and compensation
BC-VIII/26	National legislation and other measures adopted by Parties to implement the Basel Convention
BC-VIII/27	National definitions of hazardous wastes
BC-VIII/28	Article 11 agreements and arrangements
BC-VIII/29	Designation of competent authorities and focal points
BC-VIII/30	Addressing the interpretation of paragraph 5 of article 17 of the Basel Convention
BC-VIII/31	Mechanism for promoting implementation and compliance: election of members
BC-VIII/32	Mechanism for promoting implementation and compliance: work programme for 2007–2008
BC-VIII/33	Programme and budget for the biennium 2007–2008
BC-VIII/34	Resource mobilization and sustainable financing
BC-VIII/35	Dates and venue of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties

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UNEP/CHW.8/1	Provisional agenda
UNEP/CHW.8/1/Add.1	Annotated provisional agenda
UNEP/CHW.8/2	Strategic Plan for the Implementation of the Basel Convention to 2010
UNEP/CHW.8/2/Add.1	Strategic plan for the implementation of the Basel Convention to 2010: report on project activities
UNEP/CHW.8/2/Add.2	Strategic Plan for the Implementation of the Basel Convention to 2010: Basel Convention Partnership Programme
UNEP/CHW.8/2/Add.3	Guidance document on the environmentally sound management of used and end-of-life mobile phones: Mobile Phone Partnership Initiative
UNEP/CHW.8/3/Rev.1	International cooperation and synergies
UNEP/CHW.8/4	Reporting
UNEP/CHW.8/5	Technical Matters: Proposed decisions approved by the Open-ended Working Group at its fifth session for submission to the Conference of the Parties at its eighth meeting
UNEP/CHW.8/5/Add.1	Technical Matters: Proposed decisions approved by the Open-ended Working Group at its fifth session for submission to the Conference of the Parties at its eighth meeting: Draft technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with pesticides aldrin, chlordane, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene (HCB), mirex or toxaphene or with HCB as an industrial chemical
UNEP/CHW.8/5/Add.2	Technical Matters: Proposed decisions approved by the Open-ended Working Group at its fifth session for submission to the Conference of the Parties at its eighth meeting: Draft technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(4-chlorophenyl)ethane (DDT)
UNEP/CHW.8/5/Add.3	Technical Matters: Proposed decisions approved by the Open-ended Working Group at its fifth session for submission to the Conference of the Parties at its eighth meeting: Draft technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes containing or contaminated with unintentionally produced polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), hexachlorobenzene (HCB) or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
UNEP/CHW.8/5/Add.4	Technical Matters: Proposed decisions approved by the Open-ended Working Group at its fifth session for submission to the Conference of the Parties at its eighth meeting: Draft updated general technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
UNEP/CHW.8/5/Add.4/Corr.1	Technical Matters: Proposed decisions approved by the Open-ended Working Group at its fifth session for submission to the Conference of the Parties at its eighth meeting: Draft updated general technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
UNEP/CHW.8/5/Add.5	Technical Matters: Proposed decisions approved by the Open-ended Working Group at its fifth session for submission to the Conference of the Parties at its eighth meeting: Draft updated technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs) or olybrominated biphenyls (PBBs)
UNEP/CHW.8/5/Add.6/Rev.2	Technical Matters: Draft revised notification and movement documents for the control of transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and instructions for their use
UNEP/CHW.8/6	Legal matters
UNEP/CHW.8/6/Corr.1	Legal matters
UNEP/CHW.8/7	Ship dismantling
UNEP/CHW.8/7/Add.1	Report on developments relating to the draft legally binding instrument on ship recycling within the International Maritime Organization
UNEP/CHW.8/8	Proposed programme and budget for the biennium 2007-2008 or the triennium 2007-2009
UNEP/CHW.8/9	Resource mobilization programme
UNEP/CHW.8/10	Sustainable financing
UNEP/CHW.8/11	Draft work programme of the Open-ended Working Group for 2007-2008
UNEP/CHW.8/12	Compliance Committee
UNEP/CHW.8/13	Dates and venue of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties
UNEP/CHW.8/14	Designation of competent authorities and focal points
UNEP/CHW.8/15	Creating innovative solutions through the Basel Convention for the environmentally sound management of electronic wastes
UNEP/CHW.8/16	Report of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal on its eighth meeting

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UNEP/CHW.8/INF/1/Rev.1	List of participants
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/2	List of pre-session documents
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/3	Information on stakeholder consultations on the concept of a public-private partnership on environmentally sound management of used and end-of life computing equipment
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/3/Add.1	Information on stakeholder consultations on the concept of a public-private partnership on the environmentally sound management of used and end-of-life computing equipment
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/4	Basel Convention Regional Centres: report on projects and capacity building in support of the implementation of the Strategic Plan
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/4/Add.1	Basel Convention Regional Centres: report on projects and capacity building towards the implementation of the Strategic Plan: final reports, publications and documents of all the projects and business plans for the period 2007-2008 on CD-ROM
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/5	Basel Convention Regional Centres: framework agreements, business plans for the period of 2007-2008 and operational strengthening of the centres
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/6	Mobile Phone Partnership Initiative
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/7	Report on actions taken by the Secretariat in response to the incident of dumping of toxic wastes in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/8	Compilation of comments and proposals received from Parties pursuant to decision OEWG-V/6
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/9	Separate identification in the World Customs Organization Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System of certain wastes in Annexes VIII and IX to the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/10	Cooperation and synergies: Decision SC-2/15 adopted by the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/11	Cooperation and synergies: Decision RC-3/8 adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention at its third meeting
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/12	Summary on the results of the report on the waste sector’s contribution to climate protection and possible potentials: linkages to waste management to the reduction of climate change gases
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/13	Transmission of information, including implementation of decision II/12
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/14	Nominations to the Committee for Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/15	Illegal Traffic: report on workshops
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/16	Basel Protocol on Liability and Compensation: report on workshops
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/16/Add.1	Basel Protocol on Liability and Compensation: report on workshops
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/17	Protocol on liability and compensation: comments received pursuant to decision OEWG-V/11
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/18	Bilateral, multilateral and regional agreements and arrangements in force
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/18/Corr.1	Bilateral, multilateral and regional agreements and arrangements in force
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/19	National definitions of hazardous wastes: communications transmitted by Parties to the Secretariat after 20 January 2006
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/20	Communication transmitted by the President to the members of the Expanded Bureau concerning the interpretation of article 17, paragraph 5, of the Convention and the implementation of decision III/1 and compilation of comments received from Parties
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/21	Environmentally sound management of ship dismantling: compilation of information on environmentally sound management of ship recycling available on the Basel Convention website
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/22	Compilation of assessments provided by Parties and others of the level of control and enforcement established by the Basel Convention, in its entirety, and comparisons with the expected level of control and enforcement to be provided by the draft legally binding instrument on ship recycling in its entirety
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/23	Information on financial matters
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/24	Pilot Resource Mobilization Workshop
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/25	Examination of Article 14 of the Basel Convention, with a view to determining the legal and institutional feasibility of appropriate and predictable financial mechanisms of the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/26	Update on publications and public information material
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/27	Scenario note for the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/28	Study on improving cooperation and synergies between the secretariats of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, prepared by the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/29	Supplementary analysis of financial and administrative arrangements to be implemented to enhance synergies between the chemicals and waste conventions, prepared by UNEP
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/30	Recommendations on improving cooperation and synergies, prepared by the Secretariat of the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/31	Supplementary report prepared by the President of the Stockholm Convention pursuant to decision SC-2/15 of the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/32	Potential links and relationships between the Basel Convention and the Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/33	Our sustainable future: the role of the Basel Convention Our sustainable future: the role of the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/34	Report of the Working Group on Ship Recycling established by the fifty-fifth session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/35	Creating innovative solutions through the Basel Convention for the environmentally sound management of electronic wastes: information and data collected from various sources (eg: Governments, intergovernmental organizations, academia) and compiled by the Secretariat
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/36	Terms upon which programme support costs are charged for the administration of the Basel Convention Trust Funds
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/37	Mercury waste and Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/38	IUCN Recommendation 3.088 on the “Ban Amendment” to the Basel Convention
UNEP/CHW.8/INF/39	Development of the draft International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships - Assessment in the Context of Decision VII/26

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