Key Stockholm Convention meeting pushes ahead with planning

Preparations for the 2021 Meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP) are discussed by the Rotterdam Convention’s COP Bureau, during an online meeting on 9 June 2020.

Highlights: Taking into account the current COVID-19 situation and in order to ensure the health and safety of all meeting participants, in agreement with the Bureau, the meeting of the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention will be held online on 10 June 2020 from 2 pm to 5 pm (Geneva time).

The Bureau will discuss, among other things, the preparation of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention which will be held from 19 to 30 July 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Provisional agenda

1. Opening of the meeting.
2. Adoption of the agenda.
3. Report on the work of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee.
4. Preparations for the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention
5. Briefing by the Secretariat on: (a) Budget performance and contributions; (b) Other developments.
6. Preparations for the joint bureaux meeting, including selection of five members of the bureaux of the Basel and Stockholm conventions.
7. Closure of the meeting.

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