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1.Approves the application form for admission as an observer at meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal set out in the annex to the present decision;
2.Invites any body or agency wishing to be represented as an observer at the meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention, or, as appropriate, its subsidiary bodies, to submit to the Secretariat the information required in accordance with the form set out in the annex to the present decision for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its next ordinary meeting;
3.Requests the Secretariat to maintain a list of national and international, governmental and non-governmental bodies and agencies represented as observers at meetings of the Conference of the Parties for the purpose of inviting observers to those meetings and for official communications with observers during the periods between meetings of the Conference of the Parties and its subsidiary bodies;
4.Also requests the Secretariat, within the context of its work to maintain the list referred to in paragraph 3 above, to continue to confirm that the bodies or agencies making requests for admission as observers meet the relevant criteria in accordance with the Convention and the rules of procedure;
5.Further requests the Secretariat to report to the Conference of the Parties at its twelfth meeting on experiences with using the form referred to in paragraph 1 above and the practices followed regarding the admission of observers to meetings of the bodies of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions;
6.Agrees that the list referred to in paragraph 3 above shall include those bodies or agencies represented as observers at previous meetings of the Conference of the Parties;
7.Requests the Secretariat to continue to maintain the list referred to in paragraph 3 above and to update it after each ordinary meeting of the Conference of the Parties.
