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1.Welcomes the updated electronic reporting system of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal1 and encourages Parties to use it to transmit their national reports;
2.Urges Parties that have not yet done so to transmit to the Secretariat their national reports for the year 2017 and for previous years as soon as possible;
3.Takes note of the information provided by the Secretariat on the contribution of the Basel Convention to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,2 and encourages Parties to strengthen their efforts to include information in their national reports on the generation, import, export and disposal of hazardous wastes for the calculation of indicators 12.4.23 and 12.5.14 for measuring progress towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 12;
4.Acknowledges the importance of clarity of the information transmitted in national reports related to transit, and encourages Parties to provide responses to questions 3g and 3h of the reporting format;5
5.Adopts the revisions to the reporting format for national reporting set out in annex I to the present decision and agrees that the revised format should be used by Parties for reporting for the year 2018 and onwards;
(a)To continue to develop the electronic reporting system, including to make the required adaptations to the system to reflect the revisions to the reporting format referred to in paragraph 5 of the present decision, and to support Parties in using it;
(b)To incorporate the revisions to the reporting format referred to in paragraph 5 of the present decision into the manual for completing the format for national reporting under the Basel Convention6 and reflect therein the revisions contained in annex II to the present decision;
(c)To also incorporate the revisions referred to in paragraph 5 of the present decision into the standardized reporting format for transmitting information under paragraphs 1 (a) and (b) of Article 4 and paragraphs 2 (c) and (d) of Article 13 of the Convention, revised by decision BC-13/9;
(d)To translate into English, subject to the availability of resources, any information transmitted by Parties in their national reports in the official languages of the United Nations other than English, and to incorporate such information into the electronic reporting system;
(e)To develop, subject to the availability of resources, draft practical guidance on the development of inventories for the following waste streams for consideration by the Open‑ended Working Group at its twelfth meeting and the Conference of the Parties at its fifteenth meeting:
(f)To continue, subject to the availability of resources, to undertake pilot projects to test the practical guidance for the development of inventories of used lead-acid batteries, waste electrical and electronic equipment and waste oils,7 and to prepare, on the basis of the outcomes of those projects and comments received by Parties and observers on their experience in using the guidance, revised practical guidance for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its fifteenth meeting;
(g)To continue, subject to the availability of resources, to provide training to developing countries and other countries that need assistance to meet their reporting obligations by organizing training activities in cooperation with the Basel Convention regional and coordinating centres or by other appropriate means;
(h)To report to the Conference of the Parties at its fifteenth meeting on the implementation of the present decision.