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1.Takes note of the report on the status of work of the World Customs Organization on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System related to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal;1
2.Also takes note of the revised list of types of wastes submitted by Parties in response to decision BC-10/10, taking into account the progress made by the Harmonized System Committee and its Harmonized System Review Subcommittee, as well as of the information received from Parties on the types of wastes for which it would be useful to request the World Customs Organization to introduce codes in the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System;2
(a)To submit to the World Customs Organization a proposal for amending the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System to allow the identification of the following types of wastes:
(i)With higher priority:3
1.B1110 and A1180 – Electrical and electronic assemblies;4
2.A1160 – Waste lead-acid batteries, whole or crushed;5
5.A3020 – Waste mineral oils unfit for their originally intended use, together with A3180 – Wastes, substances and articles containing, consisting of or contaminated with PCB, PCT, PCN or PBB or any other polybrominated analogues of these compounds;
6.A4030 – Wastes from production, formulation and use of biocides and phytopharmaceuticals, including waste pesticides;
7.B1250 – Waste end-of-life motor vehicles, containing neither liquids nor other hazardous components;
(ii)With medium priority:6
1.A3090 – Waste leather dust, ash, sludges and flours when containing hexavalent chromium compounds or biocides;
(b)To continue, under the guidance of the Open-ended Working Group, its cooperation with the Harmonized System Committee and relevant subcommittees of the World Customs Organization in order to facilitate the inclusion of wastes covered by the Basel Convention in the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System;