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1.Takes note of the responses provided by Parties and others pertaining to information on their experiences with electronic approaches to the notification and movement documents;1
2.Acknowledges the need to look further into electronic approaches to the notification and movement documents;
3.Invites Parties and others to provide to the Secretariat, by 30 September 2019, information on their experiences in developing and implementing electronic systems for exchanging information on or controlling the movements of goods and wastes, and on experts who could contribute to the consultative workshops referred to in subparagraph 4 (b) of the present decision;
(a)To prepare, subject to the availability of resources, a report on experiences, at the national and international levels, in developing and implementing electronic systems for exchanging information on or controlling the movements of goods and wastes, and lessons learned from such experiences, taking into account the information provided in paragraph 3 of the present decision, for consideration by the Open‑ended Working Group at its twelfth meeting;
(b)To organize, after the twelfth meeting of the Open‑ended Working Group, subject to the availability of resources, consultative workshops involving experts from Parties and observers from the five regional groups of the United Nations to explore options for a system under the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal that would allow for the automation of processes and the electronic exchange of information relating to the notification and movement of hazardous and other wastes, their expected benefits and requirements, and possible steps towards their implementation;