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BC-13/6

Technical guidelines on incineration on land (D10) and on specially engineered landfill (D5)

Date: 24-04-2017
Treaty
Basel Convention
Meeting
Meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (BC COP-13, RC COP-8, SC COP-8)
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Decision
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Keywords
Technical guidelines, Land, Landfill, Conventions, Monitoring, Sound environmental management

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The Conference of the Parties,
Having considered the work programme of the Open-ended Working Group for the biennium 2016–2017, set out in the annex to decision BC-12/19, the outcome of the tenth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group and the results of the online survey to assess the relevance and utility of the Basel Convention documents related to environmentally sound management,
1.Recalls decision III/13, by which it adopted the technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes subject to the Basel Convention, including on incineration on land (D10) and on specially engineered landfill (D5);
2.Takes note of the recommendation made by the Open-Ended Working Group at its tenth meeting1 that the Conference of the Parties at its thirteenth meeting consider whether the technical guidelines on incineration on land (D10), on specially engineered landfill (D5) and on hazardous waste physico-chemical treatment (D9) and biological treatment (D8) should be updated;1UNEP/CHW/OEWG.10/13, para. 64.
3.Also takes note of the results of the online survey2 and the full report thereon, including the responses to the survey; 32UNEP/CHW.13/INF/18.3UNEP/CHW.13/INF/9.
4.Decides that the technical guidelines on incineration on land (D10) and on specially engineered landfill (D5) should be updated;
5.Invites Parties to consider serving as lead countries in the updating of the technical guidelines referred to in paragraph 4 above and to inform the Secretariat of their willingness to do so by 31 August 2017;
6.Decides to establish a small intersessional working group, operating by electronic means, to undertake the updating referred to in paragraph 4 above;
7.Invites Parties and others to nominate experts to participate in the small intersessional working group and to inform the Secretariat of their nominations by 31 August 2017;
8.Requests the lead country or countries or, if there is no lead country or countries, the Secretariat, subject to the availability of resources, in consultation with the small intersessional working group, to prepare the draft updated technical guidelines referred to in paragraph 4 above for consideration by the Open-ended Working Group at its eleventh meeting;
9.Invites Parties and other stakeholders to make financial and in-kind contributions to support the activities referred to in paragraph 4 above;
10.Decides to include in the work programme of the Open-ended Working Group for the biennium 2018–2019 the consideration of whether the technical guidelines on hazardous waste physico-chemical treatment (D9) and biological treatment (D8) referred to in decision V/26 should be updated;
11.Requests the Secretariat to report to the Open-ended Working Group at its eleventh meeting and to the Conference of the Parties at its fourteenth meeting on the progress of work on the updating of the technical guidelines referred to in paragraph 4 above.