The Conference of the Parties

1. Welcomes with appreciation the contribution made by Canada in chairing the small intersessional working group and expresses its appreciation to the lead countries – Canada, China and Japan – the lead organizations – the United Nations Environment Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – and the small intersessional working group for their contributions to the tasks pertaining to technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of persistent organic pollutants and to the Government of Norway for its financial contribution;

2. Adopts the following technical guidelines:

(a) General technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutant (1);