Guidance on how to address the environmentally sound management of wastes in the informal sector

At its fourteenth meeting, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, in decision BC-14/3 on developing guidelines for environmentally sound management, adopted guidance on how to address the environmentally sound management of wastes in the informal sector. The guidance referred to above were prepared by the expert working group on environmentally sound management, taking into account comments received from Parties and others. The text of the final version of the guidance, as adopted, is set out in the annex to the present note. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited.