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BRS-2025COPs-InvitationLetter-ESTONIA-english.pdf

BASEL, ROTTERDAM AND STOCKHOLM CONVENTIONS

Secretariats of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

United Nations Environment Programme

Office Address: International Environment House 1

11–13, chemin des Anémones, 1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland

Postal Address: c/o Palais des Nations, 8-14, avenue de la Paix, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland

Tel.: +41 (0) 22 917 8271 ¦ Fax: +41 (0) 22 917 8098 ¦ E-mail: brs@un.org

Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy

Tel.: +39 06 5705 2061 ¦ Fax: +39 06 5705 3224 ¦ E-mail: pic@fao.org

8 November 2024

Subject: Invitation to the meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and

Stockholm conventions, Geneva, Switzerland, 28 April - 9 May 2025

Excellency,

We have the honour to refer to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements

of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent

Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade and the Stockholm

Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

The seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention, the twelfth

meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention and the twelfth meeting of the

Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention will be held back to back from 28 April to 9

May 2025, at the Geneva International Conference Centre (CICG), 17, rue de Varembé, Geneva,

Switzerland. Preparatory meetings, including regional and bureaux meetings, will be held on Sunday, 27

April 2025.

As decided by the conferences of the Parties at their previous meetings, the meetings will include

joint sessions covering matters of relevance to at least two of the three conventions and convention-

specific sessions of the meetings of each of the three conferences of the Parties. The meetings will also

feature a high-level segment on the afternoon of Wednesday, 30 April 2025 and the morning of

Thursday, 1 May 2025. The theme of the meetings and the high-level segment will be “Make visible the

invisible: sound management of chemicals and wastes”.

The working languages of the meetings of the conferences of the Parties will be Arabic, Chinese,

English, French, Russian and Spanish. The provisional agendas and tentative schedule for the meetings

are enclosed. Other documents and additional information on the arrangements for the meetings will be

made available online on the conventions’ website: http://www.brsmeas.org/2025COPs.

Addressee by e-mail (to be disseminated by

the respective Permanent Mission to the

United Nations Office at Geneva):

Minister for Foreign Affairs

H.E. Mr. Margus Tsahkna

Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Tallinn, Estonia

Addressees by e-mail:

Permanent Missions to the United Nations Office

at Geneva

Basel Convention Focal Points

Rotterdam Convention Official Contact Points

Stockholm Convention Official Contact Points

Cc: Contact points for the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions

Permanent Representatives to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in

Rome and Permanent Representatives to the United Nations Environment Programme.

Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Page | 2

Registration of representatives

We have the honour to invite your Government to designate one or more representative(s) to

participate in the meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm

conventions. The names and contact information of the designated representatives must be

communicated to the Secretariat using the BRS online registration system using the following link:

https://registration.brsmeas.org. Before being able to register, you will be asked to activate your personal

account using an active e-mail address. With your personal account, you will be able to self-register or to

register several participants from your Government.

An official nomination letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or a note verbale from the

Permanent Mission in Geneva will need to be uploaded by delegates in the online registration

system at the time of registration.

The deadline for registration in the online platform and for submitting the official nomination

letter is Friday, 24 January 2025. The Secretariat highly encourages early registration. Please note that

registrations will not be processed by the Secretariat if they are not accompanied by an official

nomination letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or a note verbale from the Permanent Mission of

your country to the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Pursuant to its Gender Action Plan, the Secretariat promotes active gender-balanced participation

in meetings of the bodies of the conventions. Accordingly, the Secretariat encourages a balanced gender

representation within your delegation.

Subject to the availability of resources, regional preparatory meetings for the 2025 meetings of the

conferences of the Parties will be held for the Africa, Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe and Latin America

and the Caribbean regions. Parties are invited to consider ensuring continuity among the delegates

attending these preparatory meetings and the meetings of the conferences of the Parties. Parties are

furthermore invited to consider nominating current members of the bureaux of the three conferences of

the Parties to the meetings.

Credentials of representatives of Parties to the conventions

In accordance with rule 18 of the rules of procedure for the Conference of the Parties to the Basel

Convention, rule 19 of the rules of procedure for the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam

Convention and rule 19 of the rules of procedure for the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm

Convention, the Secretariat invites Parties to submit the credentials of the representatives, as well as the

names of the alternate representatives and advisers, who will constitute the delegation for your State or

regional economic integration organization to the meetings of those of the three conventions to which

your State or regional economic integration organization is a Party. A model form of credentials is

attached for your convenience and is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish

on the conventions’ website.

Please note that, in accordance with the respective rules of procedure, credentials must be issued

by the head of State or Government, by the Minister for Foreign Affairs or, in the case of a

regional economic integration organization, by the competent authority of that organization.

Information regarding any change in the composition of the delegation should be submitted using the

same procedure. Moreover, credentials shall be submitted if possible, no later than 24 hours after

the opening of the meetings (therefore by 10 am on Tuesday, 29 April 2025).

The Secretariat invites Parties to submit any electronic copy of credentials in advance of the

meetings preferably by Friday, 11 April 2025 to registration@brsmeas.org, as doing so will

greatly facilitate the clearance process. The Secretariat also invites Parties to hand over the

original credentials of their representatives at the meeting venue itself, at the time of the

opening of the meetings.

Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Page | 3

Please also note that the bureaux of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and

Stockholm conventions agreed on the approach they will follow when preparing the reports on

credentials for the meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm

conventions in 2025. The bureaux agreed that when examining credentials received, they would

accept original credentials in good order as well as copies of credentials in good order with the

understanding that the original will be submitted as soon as possible.

Assistance to developing-country Parties and Parties with economies in transition

Depending on the availability of funds, financial assistance to help defray the cost of attending the

meetings will be made available to developing-country Parties and Parties that are countries with

economies in transition for one representative per State per convention to which the State is a Party,

to a maximum of three representatives per State, for up to the full two-week duration of the meetings.

The request for financial assistance for the designated representative of your Government

should be indicated in the official nomination letter or the note verbale from the Permanent

Mission in Geneva. Since funds may be limited, Parties that are eligible to receive such support should

indicate, in order of priority, the designated representatives for whom assistance is being requested.

Please also note that requests for financial assistance must be processed by the Secretariat with

sufficient time in advance of the meetings to ensure the timely issuance of air tickets and to allow time

for representatives to apply for visas. For this reason, it will not be possible for the Secretariat to

consider requests for financial assistance or replacements of designated representatives after the

Friday, 24 January 2025 deadline. Due to the high number of travellers, the Secretariat will not be in a

position to accommodate requests for private deviations from the official itinerary provided by the travel

agent, including selecting a specific route or airline, or extending the stay in Geneva.

When allocating funding to facilitate the participation of Parties in the meetings, the Secretariat

will apply the procedure adopted by the conferences of the Parties for that purpose (decisions BC-10/28,

RC-5/1 and SC-5/2, respectively), taking into account decisions BC-16/28, RC-12/15 and SC-11/27 on

programmes of work and budgets for the conventions for the biennium 2024-2025, and act in accordance

with United Nations rules and procedures.

If you have any questions on the registration process for the meetings, please do not hesitate

to contact the Secretariat at: registration@brsmeas.org.

Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of our highest consideration.

Rolph Payet Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam

and Stockholm Conventions

Christine Fuell

Executive Secretary ad interim

of the Rotterdam Convention

Encl.

BRS-2025COPs-ModelOfCredentials-english.docx

BRS-2025COPs-TentativeSchedule-english.pdf

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UNITED NATIONS

UNEP/CHW.17/INF/2

UNEP/FAO/RC/COP.12/INF/2

UNEP/POPS/COP.12/INF/2

Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal

Distr.: General

7 November 2024

English only

Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Conference of the Parties

to the Basel Convention

on the Control of Transboundary

Movements of Hazardous Wastes

and Their Disposal

Seventeenth meeting

Geneva, 28 April–9 May 2025

Item 3 (b) of the provisional agenda*

Organizational matters:

organization of work

Conference of the Parties

to the Rotterdam Convention

on the Prior Informed Consent

Procedure for Certain Hazardous

Chemicals and Pesticides

in International Trade

Twelfth meeting

Geneva, 28 April–9 May 2025

Item 3 (b) of the provisional agenda**

Organizational matters:

organization of work

Conference of the Parties

to the Stockholm Convention

on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Twelfth meeting

Geneva, 28 April–9 May 2025

Item 3 (b) of the provisional

agenda***

Organizational matters:

organization of work

Tentative schedule of work of the meetings of the conferences of

the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions

Note by the Secretariat

The annexes to the present note contain a tentative schedule of work for the meetings of the

conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (annex I) and a list of

possible contact and other groups (annex II). The tentative schedule of work, which was agreed to by

the bureaux of the conferences of the Parties to the three conventions at their joint meeting on 5

November 2024, is provisional and could be subject to changes before or during the two weeks of the

meetings.1 The present note, including its annexes, has not been formally edited.

* UNEP/CHW.17/1.

** UNEP/FAO/RC/COP.12/1

*** UNEP/POPS/COP.12/1. 1 Participants may wish to take into account that each of the sessions of the conferences of the Parties may last

longer or begin earlier, subject to the decisions taken by the bureaux, which would be expected to meet each

morning from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. to agree on the order of business for the day, and by the conferences of the Parties.

Delegates are therefore advised to allow for a certain level of flexibility when making travel arrangements.

UNEP/CHW.17/INF/2–UNEP/FAO/RC/COP.12/INF/2–UNEP/POPS/COP.12/INF/2

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Annex I

Tentative schedule of work of the 2025 meetings of the conferences of the Parties1

Mon, 28 April 2025 Tue, 29 April 2025 Wed, 30 April 2025 Thu, 1 May 2025 Fri, 2 May 2025 Sat, 3 May

2025

Morning

session

10 a.m.–

1 p.m.

BC Item 1: Opening of the meeting

BC Item 2: Adoption of the agenda

Joint sessions of the COPs:

Reports of contact groups

Joint sessions of the COPs:

Reports of contact groups

Joint sessions of the COPs:

Reports of contact groups

Joint sessions of the COPs:

Reports of contact groups

N o

f o r m

a l

m e e ti

n g

s

RC Item 1: Opening of the meeting

RC Item 2: Adoption of the agenda

Joint sessions of the COPs: BC Item 4 (cont.)

(f) Financial resources;

Session of SC COP-12: Item 5 (cont.)

(a) Measures to reduce or eliminate releases

from intentional production and use (cont.): (iii) Polychlorinated biphenyls;

(b) Measures to reduce or eliminate releases

from unintentional production; (d) Implementation plans;

(h) Reporting pursuant to Article 15;

Item 4: Rules of procedure.

High-level segment

Session of BC COP-17: Item 4 (cont.)

(a) Strategic issues:

(i) Strategic framework; (ii) Improving the functioning of the

PIC procedure;

(c) Legal, compliance and governance matters (cont.):

(iii) National legislation, notifications,

enforcement of the Convention and efforts to combat illegal traffic;

(b) Scientific and technical matters

(cont.): (i) Technical guidelines (cont.)

(except POPs wastes);2 (v) Further consideration of plastic waste;

SC Item 1: Opening of the meeting

SC Item 2: Adoption of the agenda

RC Item 5 Matters related to the

implementation of the Convention

(f) Financial resources; SC Item 5 (cont.) (g) Financial

resources and mechanisms;

BC Item 4 (c) (cont.) (i) Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and

Compliance of the Basel Convention; RC Item 5 (cont.) (d) Compliance;

SC Item 5 (cont.) (j) Compliance;3

BC Item 7; RC Item 8; SC Item 8:

Programme of work and budget.

Joint sessions of the COPs: BC Item 3; RC Item 3;

SC Item 3: Organizational matters

(b) Organization of work; (a) Election of officers;

(c) Credentials;4

Session of SC COP-12:

Item 5: Matters related to the implementation of the

Convention (e) Listing of chemicals in Annex A, B or C to the

Convention;

Afternoon

session

3–6 p.m.

Joint sessions of the COPs: BC Item 4: Matters related to the implementation

of the Convention

(b) Scientific and technical matters:

(i) Technical guidelines (POPs wastes);

SC Item 5 (cont.)

(c) Measures to reduce or eliminate releases from wastes;

Session of SC COP-12: Item 5

(cont.)

(j) Compliance (cont.);

(i) Effectiveness evaluation;

(a) Measures to reduce or eliminate

releases from intentional production

and use: (i) Exemptions;

(iv) Brominated diphenyl ethers;

(ii) DDT;

Opening of the high-level segment

Session of SC COP-12:

Consideration of the outcomes

of the contact groups and draft decisions

Item 10: Other matters

(cont.).

Joint sessions of the COPs: Adoption of the reports on credentials.

N o

f o r m

a l

m e e ti

n g

s

Ministerial

round-tables Joint sessions of the COPs:

BC Item 5; RC Item 6; SC

Item 6: International

cooperation and coordination

(a) Cooperation and coordination with the Minamata

Convention on Mercury;

(b) Cooperation and coordination with other

organizations.

BC Item 9; RC Item 10; SC

Item 10: Other matters

(admission of observers).

Session of SC COP-12:

Consideration of the outcomes of the contact groups and draft decisions

Item 11: Adoption of the report.

Session of BC COP-17: Item 4 (cont.)

(c) Legal, compliance and governance matters:

(ii) Providing further legal clarity;5

(b) Scientific and technical matters (cont.): (i) Technical guidelines (cont.) (except POPs

wastes);

Session of BC COP-17: Item 4 (cont.)

(c) Legal, compliance and

governance matters (cont.): (i) Implementation and

Compliance of the Basel

Convention (cont.);

1 Items listed in the draft tentative schedule are from the provisional agendas of the meetings (UNEP/CHW.17/1; UNEP/FAO/RC/COP.12/1; UNEP/POPS/COP.12/1). 2 To take up the remaining technical guidelines whose consideration could not be completed on Monday, 28 April 2025. 3 Consideration of the agenda items on compliance in joint session would be limited to an introduction by the Secretariat of the agenda items, as well as a report by each respective Chair on the work of the

Basel and Rotterdam convention committees. Discussions and conclusions on the way forward would take place during the convention-specific sessions later in the weeks. 4 The bureaux of the conferences of the Parties have agreed that, when examining credentials, they would accept, in addition to original credentials in good order, copies of credentials on the understanding

that original credentials would be submitted as soon as possible. Each Bureau would present its report to the respective Conference of the Parties for its consideration in the afternoon of Friday, 2 May 2025.

Any updates to the credentials report may be considered by the respective Conference of the Parties in the afternoon of Thursday, 8 May 2025. 5 This includes the revised amendment proposals for Annex IV and the draft recommendations on the review of Annexes I and III developed by the expert working group on the review of Annexes.

UNEP/CHW.17/INF/2–UNEP/FAO/RC/COP.12/INF/2–UNEP/POPS/COP.12/INF/2

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Sun, 4 May 2025 Mon, 5 May 2025 Tue, 6 May 2025 Wed, 7 May 2025 Thu, 8 May 2025 Fri, 9 May 2025

Morning session

10 a.m.–

1 p.m.

Joint sessions of the COPs: Reports of contact groups

Session of RC COP-12:

Item 5 (cont.)

(b) Listing of chemicals in Annex III to the Convention;

Session of BC COP-17:

Consideration of the outcomes

of the contact groups and draft

decisions

Item 4 (cont.)

(g) Work programme of the

OEWG for 2026–2027.

Item 9: Other matters (cont.).

Session of BC COP-17:

Consideration of the outcomes of the contact

groups and draft decisions

Joint sessions of the COPs:

BC Item 6; RC Item 7; SC

Item 7 (cont.)

(d) From science to action.

(a) Clearing-house mechanism

for information exchange;

(b) Mainstreaming gender;

BC Item 8; RC Item 9; SC

Item 9: Venue and date of the

next COPs.

Session of RC COP-12:

Consideration of the outcomes of

the contact groups and draft

decisions

Session of RC COP-12:

Consideration of the

outcomes of the contact

groups and draft decisions

Item 11: Adoption of the

report.

Joint sessions of the COPs:

BC Item 4 (cont.) (d) Technical assistance RC Item 5 (cont.) (e) Technical assistance;

SC Item 5 (cont.) (f) Technical assistance;

BC Item 6; RC Item 7; SC Item 7:

Enhancing cooperation and coordination

among the Basel, Rotterdam and

Stockholm conventions (c) Synergies in preventing and combating

illegal traffic and trade in hazardous

chemicals and wastes;

Afternoon

session

3–6 p.m.

Session of BC COP-17:

Item 4 (cont.)

(c) Legal, compliance and governance matters

(cont.):

(iv) Proposal by the Russian Federation to amend paragraph 2 of Article 6 of the

Convention;

(e) Basel Convention Partnership Programme; (b) Scientific and technical matters (cont.):

(ii) Classification and hazard characterization of wastes;

(iii) National reporting;

(iv) Electronic approaches to the notification and movement documents;

(vi) Amendments to Annexes II, VIII and

IX on e-waste;

(vii) Waste containing nanomaterials;

Session of RC COP-12:

Item 5 (cont.)

(d) Compliance (cont.);

(c) Enhancing the effectiveness

of the Convention;6

(b) Listing of chemicals in

Annex III to the Convention

(cont);

Session of RC COP-12:

Item 5 (cont.)

(b) Listing of chemicals in Annex III to the

Convention (cont.);

(a) Status of implementation;

Item 4: Rules of procedure for the

Conference of the Parties.

Item 10: Other matters (cont.).

Session of BC COP-17:

Consideration of the outcomes

of the contact groups and draft

decisions

Item 10: Adoption of the

report.

Joint and Convention-specific

sessions of the COPs:

Consideration of the outcomes of

the joint contact groups, adoption of the reports on

credentials (possible updates),

adoption of outstanding decisions and adoption of the

sections of the reports on the

joint sessions of the meetings of

the COPs.7

Adoption of RC budget

decision

Adoption of BC budget decision

Adoption of SC budget

decision

BC Item 11; RC Item 12;

SC Item 12: Closure of the

meetings

Stockholm Convention Conference of the Parties (SC COP)

Basel Convention Conference of the Parties (BC COP)

Rotterdam Convention Conference of the Parties (RC COP)

Joint sessions and Convention-specific sessions as necessary of the meetings of the conferences of the Parties

High-level segment

6 This includes the proposal to amend Article 16 of the Rotterdam Convention which was submitted prior to the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties by Botswana, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya,

Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. 7 The conferences of the Parties are scheduled to meet in joint sessions to adopt the section of their report covering the joint sessions held from Monday, 28 April 2025, to Tuesday, 6 May 2025.

UNEP/CHW.17/INF/2–UNEP/FAO/RC/COP.12/INF/2–UNEP/POPS/COP.12/INF/2

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Annex II

Possible contact and other groups at the 2025 meetings of the

conferences of the Parties

The contact and other groups listed below have been tentatively identified and may be established

during the two-week period of the meetings, and meet during a set amount of time, as needed. The

total number of groups meeting at any one time would need to be limited to ensure that there is

adequate opportunity for the interests of all delegations to be factored into the discussions. The groups

are expected to complete their work by the day before the last convention-specific session in order to

allow for adoption of decisions as much as possible by the end of convention-specific sessions they

relate to.

Joint contact and other groups:

- Group on programmes of work and budgets

- Group on technical assistance/financial resources and mechanisms

- Group on joint issues

Stockholm Convention-specific contact and other groups:

- Group on listing of chemicals

- Group on compliance

Basel Convention-specific contact and other groups:

- Group on technical matters

- Group on compliance and legal matters

- Group on strategic matters

Rotterdam Convention-specific contact and other groups:

- Group on enhancing the effectiveness of the Convention

- Group on compliance

- Group on the listing of chemicals in Annex III

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Dear Madam/Sir,

Please find attached the invitation letter and attachments regarding the seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention, the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention and the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention to be held back to back from 28 April – to 9 May 2025, in Geneva, Switzerland.

The names and contact information of the designated representatives must be communicated to the Secretariat by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Permanent Mission of your country to the United Nations in Geneva using the BRS online registration system available as of 16 December 2024, together with an official nomination letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or a note verbale from the Permanent Mission in Geneva. The required information must be communicated to the Secretariat at the latest by Friday, 24 January 2025.

Please note that registration forms will not be processed by the Secretariat if they are not accompanied by an official nomination letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or a note verbale from the Permanent Mission of your country to the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Do not hesitate to contact the Secretariat at registration@brsmeas.org if you have any questions on the registration process.

We take the opportunity to invite you to verify your designated contacts for the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions and, if applicable, inform the Secretariat of any updates. For ease of reference, the current contact details are available under the conventions’ contacts database and the forms for notification of designation of contacts are available under the Procedures section of each Convention’s website.

Yours sincerely,

Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

BC-COP.17-1-ProvisionalAgenda-english.pdf

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UNITED NATIONS

UNEP/CHW.17/1

Distr.: General

15 August 2024

Original: English

Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention

on the Control of Transboundary Movements

of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal

Seventeenth meeting

Geneva, 28 April–9 May 2025

Provisional agenda

1. Opening of the meeting.

2. Adoption of the agenda.

3. Organizational matters:

(a) Election of officers;

(b) Organization of work;

(c) Report on the credentials of representatives to the seventeenth meeting of the

Conference of the Parties.

4. Matters related to the implementation of the Convention:

(a) Strategic issues:

(i) Strategic framework;

(ii) Improving the functioning of the prior informed consent procedure;

(b) Scientific and technical matters:

(i) Technical guidelines;

(ii) Classification and hazard characterization of wastes;

(iii) National reporting;

(iv) Electronic approaches to the notification and movement documents;

(v) Further consideration of plastic waste;

(vi) Amendments to Annexes II, VIII and IX on e-waste;

(vii) Waste containing nanomaterials;

(c) Legal, compliance and governance matters:

(i) Committee Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and

Compliance;

(ii) Providing further legal clarity;

(iii) National legislation, notifications, enforcement of the Convention and efforts to

combat illegal traffic;

(iv) Proposal by the Russian Federation to amend paragraph 2 of Article 6 of the

Convention;

UNEP/CHW.17/1

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(d) Technical assistance;

(e) Basel Convention Partnership Programme;

(f) Financial resources;

(g) Work programme of the Open-ended Working Group for the period 2026–2027.

5. International cooperation and coordination:

(a) Cooperation and coordination with the Minamata Convention on Mercury;

(b) Cooperation and coordination with other organizations.

6. Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm

conventions:

(a) Clearing-house mechanism for information exchange;

(b) Mainstreaming gender;

(c) Synergies in preventing and combating illegal traffic and trade in hazardous chemicals

and wastes;

(d) From science to action.

7. Programme of work and budget.

8. Venue and dates of the eighteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties.

9. Other matters.

10. Adoption of the report of the meeting.

11. Closure of the meeting.