A Regional Workshop aiming at assisting Parties in the preparation for the implementation of the E-waste Amendments to the Basel Convention which will come into effect on 1 January 2025, is being held in Johannesburg, South Africa from 14 to 18 October 2024. The workshop is organized by the Secretariat in collaboration with the Basel and Stockholm Conventions regional centres in South Africa.

The Expert Group on BAT and BEP under the Stockholm Convention met in Geneva from 8 to 10 October and agreed on the finalization of six guidance documents to be considered by the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention in 2025.

The recommendations from the Chemical Review Committee for amending Annex III to the Rotterdam Convention to be considered by the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties have been circulated to Parties.

The third part of the fourth meeting of the small intersessional working group on the strategic framework for the implementation of the Basel Convention, meets in Geneva from 7 to 8 October 2024. The working group will finalize a renewed strategic framework for the implementation of the Basel Convention to be considered for adoption by the Basel Convention COP-17 in 2025.