Mercury Waste Management Partnership Area - 2019 Meeting

The Mercury Waste Management Area of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership held a members meeting on 6 October 2019 in Bilbao, Spain, back to back with the 2019 ISWA Congress. 

Amongst others, this meeting was an opportunity to review recent progress within the Partnership Area as well as activities by partners, discuss future priority actions, including in supporting the implementation of the Minamata Convention, as well as technical work under the Basel and Minamata conventions, and exchange on communication and information sharing.

Meeting Agenda 

Opening of the meeting

Objectives of the meeting

• Background information on the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership and key results of the 2018 core-members meeting
• Objectives of the meeting

Activities to promote information-sharing

• Considering the rule of mailing list for active communication among partners
• Cooperation with other frameworks relevant to chemicals and waste

Dissemination of technical information

• Development of the “Catalogue of Technologies and Services on Mercury Waste Management”
• Considering the link with other global agenda

Contribution to the discussions under the Minamata and Basel conventions

• Technical expert group on mercury waste thresholds under the Minamata Convention
• Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of mercury wastes under the Basel Convention

Other matters

• Annual report to PAG 10 and COP 3

Closure of the meeting