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1.Welcomes with appreciation the contributions made by the Governments of Argentina and Canada, as co-lead countries, and the small intersessional working group established pursuant to paragraph 6 of decision BC-13/6 to the tasks pertaining to the technical guidelines on incineration on land (D10) and the technical guidelines on specially engineered landfill (D5);
3.Also takes note of the comments received pursuant to paragraphs 4 and 5 of decision OEWG-11/5;3
4.Agrees that the scope of the technical guidelines on incineration on land (D10) should be extended to also address incineration as covered by the operation “use as a fuel (other than in direct incineration) or other means to generate energy” (R1);
5.Acknowledges that the extension of the scope as specified in paragraph 4 of the present decision represents an increase in workload and that the co-leads therefore need to reconsider whether they are in a position to finalize the work;
6.Invites Parties to consider serving as co-lead countries in the updating of the technical guidelines on incineration on land (D10) with an extended scope as specified in paragraph 4 of the present decision and to inform the Secretariat of their willingness to do so by 30 June 2019;
7.Acknowledges that Annex IV is currently being reviewed by the expert working group on the review of Annexes I, III and IV and related aspects of Annex IX, and that the outcome may result in potential changes to operations D5, D10 and R1 if the related amendments are adopted;
8.Decides to extend the mandate of the small intersessional working group established pursuant to paragraph 6 of decision BC-13/6;
9.Invites Parties and others to nominate additional experts to participate in the small intersessional working group and to inform the Secretariat of their nominations by 31 August 2019;
10.Also invites Parties and others to submit to the Secretariat by 18 October 2019 comments on the draft updated technical guidelines on incineration on land (D10) and on specially engineered landfill (D5) referred to in paragraph 2 of the present decision;
11.Invites the lead countries or, if there is no lead country, the Secretariat, subject to the availability of resources, to prepare draft updated technical guidelines on incineration on land (D10) with an extended scope as specified in paragraph 4 of the present decision, taking into account the discussion during the fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties and the comments received pursuant to paragraph 10 of the present decision, in consultation with the small intersessional working group, for consideration by the Open-ended Working Group at its twelfth meeting;
12.Invites Argentina and Canada, as co-lead countries, to prepare a revised draft of the updated technical guidelines on specially engineered landfill (D5) referred to in paragraph 2 of the present decision, taking into account the discussion during the fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties and the comments received pursuant to paragraph 10 of the present decision, in consultation with the small intersessional working group, for consideration by the Open-ended Working Group at its twelfth meeting;
13.Decides that the small intersessional working group will operate by electronic means and will hold one face-to-face meeting, subject to the availability of resources;