Stockholm Convention | 11 to 13 October 2022 | Expert meeting on Best Available Techniques and Best Environmental Practices under the Stockholm Convention

Provisional agenda

1. Opening.

2. Organizational matters: (a) Adoption of the agenda; (b) Organization of work.

3. Introduction and context: (a) Outcomes of the face-to-face segment of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention relevant to best available techniques and best environmental practices; (b) Overview of the outcomes of the 2020-2022 intersessional period.

4. Inventories of unintentional persistent organic pollutants pursuant to Article 5 and Annex C to the Stockholm Convention: status of work and progress report to the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties.

5. Best available techniques and best environmental practices relevant to the persistent organic pollutants listed in Annex C to the Stockholm Convention: status of work and progress report to the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties.

6. Best available techniques and best environmental practices relevant to the persistent organic pollutants listed in Annex A or B to the Stockholm Convention: Consideration of initiation of the development of guidance on best available techniques and best environmental practices relevant to short-chain chlorinated paraffins.

7. Sites contaminated by persistent organic pollutants: status of work and progress report to the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties.

8. Workplan and conclusions and recommendations to the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties.

9. Other matters.

10. Closure of the meeting.