First meeting of the Expert Working Group on environmentally sound management

Venue: Dazzler Hotel San Martin, San Martin 920, Retiro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.Background: The eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties, by its decision BC-11/1 on follow-up to the Indonesian-Swiss country-led initiative to improve the effectiveness of the Basel Convention, adopted the framework for the environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes and other wastes. In addition, the COP decided to mandate an expert working group to further elaborate and implement actions on initial short-term work items as listed in annex II to the decision and to develop a work programme for additional priorities and key work items and actions for the implementation of environmentally sound management. The European Union and Japan are kindly funding the first physical meeting of the group.Organizers: The meeting is organised by the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions in collaboration with the Basel Convention Regional Centre for South America in Argentina.Working Language: English only.