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POPs wastes related projects and capacity
building activities coordinated through the
BCRCs An overview Nelson Sabogal Senior
Programme Officer Secretariat of the Basel
Convention Side Event Implementation of POPs
waste related projects and activities through the
Basel Convention Regional Centres (BCRCs), 4 May
2006
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Strategic Plan and Ministerial Statement

• Strategic Plan and Ministerial Statement
• The Strategic Plan for the Implementation of the
  Basel Convention to 2010 was adopted by COP6
  (Decision VI/1, 2002)
• The Ministerial Statement on Partnership for
  Meeting the Global Waste Challenge, adopted at
  the occasion of COP7, emphasizes on implementing
  the Strategic Plan and that priority should be
  given to capacity building on hazardous waste
  minimization.

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Strategic Plan and Ministerial Statement

• The Ministerial Statement acknowledges the
  importance of focusing on four policy directions,
  namely
• hazardous waste minimization,
• life-cycle approach,
• integrated waste management, and
• regional approach.

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Strategic Plan and Ministerial Statement

• The Ministerial Statement identified the
  following waste streams as requiring priority
  attention in the context of partnerships. These
  are
• POPs wastes
• E-wastes (electrical and electronic wastes)
• Household wastes mixed with hazardous wastes
• Biomedical and healthcare wastes
• Used lead-acid batteries
• Used oils
• Ship dismantling
• Emphasis on partnership with Parties and
  non-Parties, industries, NGOs, academia, and
  local governments/municipalities to implement
  relevant activities and through mobilization of
  extra budgetary resources

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Implementation of the principle  ESM 

• Development of Technical Guidelines and Training
  Manualson specific waste streams, treatment
  technologies, etc.(General Technical Guidelines
  for the ESM of wastes consisting of, containing
  or contaminated with POPs, Training manual for
  the preparation of PCB management plans)
• Establishment of Regional Centres for Training
  and Technology Transfer (COP III/19, 1995)
• The Basel Declaration on Environmentally Sound
  Management of hazardous wastes (COP V/1, 1999)
• Strategic Plan for the Implementation of the
  Basel Convention to 2010 (COP VI/1, 2002)
• Partnership programmes and projects (since
  2002),e.g. Mobile Phones Partnership, e-waste
• Ministerial Stament on Partnerships (COP VII,
  2004)
• Cooperation with other UN entities,e.g.
  Stockholm and Rotterdam Conventions, World Health
  Organization (WHO), UNEP, UNIDO, FAO, IMO,
  ILO,UNITAR

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Basel Convention Regional Centres (BCRCs)

• Main functions Training, Technology Transfer,
  Information Exchange, Consulting,
  Awareness-raising
• Important role in the implementation of the Basel
  Convention Entrusted with the implementation of
  priority measures of the Strategic Plan
• Business Plans of the Centres for 2005-2006
  Workplan, projects, workshops and seminars,
  implementation time table, budget, etc. prepared
  in consultation with countries they serve.
• Framework Agreements Eight Framework Agreements
  have been signed for SPREP, BCCC-Uruguay,
  BCRCs-Egypt, Indonesia, Trinidad Tobago,
  Senegal, Argentina and Islamic Republic of Iran.
• Carry out projects within the framework of the
  Strategic Plan.

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Basel Convention Operational Network (BCON)

• At present 14 Regional Centres are in operation
• Latin America and the Caribbean Argentina, El
  Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay
• Africa Egypt, Senegal, South Africa, Nigeria
• Asia and Pacific China, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic
  Republic of), SPREP
• Central and Eastern Europe Russian Federation,
  Slovakia

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Africa and West Asia 1 Basel Convention
Regional Centre for the Arab States in Egypt 2
Basel Convention Regional Co-ordinating Centre in
Nigeria 3 Basel Convention Regional Centre in
Senegal 4 Basel Convention Regional Centre in
South Africa 5 Basel Convention Regional Centre
in Tehran
Central and Eastern Europe 9 Basel Convention
Regional Centre in the Russian
Federation 10 Basel Convention Regional Centre in
Slovakia
Latin America and the Caribbean 11 Basel
Convention Regional Centre in Argentina 12 Basel
Convention Regional Centre in El Salvador 13
Basel Convention Regional Centre in Trinidad
and Tobago 14 Basel Convention Coordinating
Centre for Training and Technology Transfer
for Latin America and Caribbean region in
Uruguay
Asia and Pacific Region 6 Basel Convention
Regional Centre in China 7 Basel Convention
Regional Centre in Indonesia 8 Pacific Regional
Centre for Training and Technology Transfer
for the Joint Implementation of the Basel and
Waigani Conventions in the South Pacific region
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Demonstration and pilot projects on POPs wastes

• Establishment of a polychlorinated dibenzodioxin
  (PCDD)/polychlorinated dibenzofuran (PCDF)
  release inventory in a sub-Saharan context, with
  particular focus on specific local practices,
  BCRCSenegal
• Demonstration of a Regional Approach to ESM of
  PCB Liquid Wastes and Transformers and Capacitors
  Containing PCBs, BCRCSenegal

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Demonstration and pilot projects on POPs wastes

• Regional project for the environmentally sound
  management of PCBs and PCB-containing equipment
  in Central America, co-funded by the Secretariat
  and UNEP Chemicals and coordinated by the Basel
  Convention Regional Centre in El Salvador
• Project for the preparation of a regional
  disposal plan for obsolete pesticides in the
  Caribbean, BCRC-Trinidad and Tobago

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Demonstration and pilot projects on POPs wastes

• Basel Convention Regional Centres in SPREP and
  Uruguay successfully carried out case studies to
  evaluate the capacities of these Centres to
  implement activities envisaged by the Stockholm
  Convention. The Uruguayan Centre has published
  the outcome of this study, A Practical Guideline
  on ESM of obsolete pesticidesin both English and
  Spanish.

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Workshops on the coordinated implementation of
Stockholm and Basel Conventions

• The BCRCs have been closely involved in the
  preparation and organization of several workshops
  on the coordinated implementation of multilateral
  environmental agreements on chemicals and wastes,
  namely
• Regional Workshop on the implementation of
  Stockholm Convention and synergies with other
  chemical related agreements, Cairo, Egypt, 2124
  February 2005 (BCRC-Egypt)
• Regional Workshop for Arab states on the
  environmentally sound destruction of POP and
  decontamination of POP containing waste in the
  context of the Basel Convention and the Stockholm
  Convention, 2831 August 2005 in Amman, Jordan
  (Jordanian Ministry of Planning and International
  Cooperation and the BCRC-Egypt)

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Workshops on the coordinated implementation of
Stockholm and Basel Conventions

• Subregional workshop on the coordinated
  implementation of multilateral environmental
  agreements (Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm
  Conventions) on chemicals and wastes in
  English-speaking African countries, Pretoria,
  South Africa, 1719 September 2003. (Basel
  Convention Regional Centre in South Africa)
• Regional Workshop on POPs laboratory database for
  African countries, 1012 August 2005, Pretoria
  (BCRCSouth Africa)

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Workshops on the coordinated implementation of
Stockholm and Basel Conventions

• Pacific regional workshop on the national
  implementation plan for the Stockholm Convention
  held in parallel with the Basel and Waigani
  conventions workshop for competent authorities on
  the use of the control system and the
  awareness-raising workshop on persistent organic
  pollutants (POPs) for non-governmental
  organizations, 2630 May 2003, Nadi, Fiji. (SPREP)

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Workshops on the coordinated implementation of
Stockholm and Basel Conventions

• Workshop on the strengthening of co-operation
  based on chemicals and hazardous wastes
  conventions, Prague, 13 17 March 2004
  (BCRC-Slovak Republic)
• Regional Workshop for the preparation of a
  regional approach for the environmentally sound
  management of POPs as wastes in selected Central
  and Eastern European countries, Bratislava, 26-28
  May 2004 (BCRC-Slovak Republic)

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Workshops on the coordinated implementation of
Stockholm and Basel Conventions

• Regional Workshop on BAT and BEP in the Context
  of the Stockholm and Basel Conventions and
  Regional Consultation on the Business Plan and
  Institutional Arrangements of the Basel
  Convention Regional Center of South America in
  Argentina, 21-26 October 2002
• Regional Workshop on POPs Destruction
  Technologies on the environmentally sound
  destruction of POP and decontamination of POP
  containing waste in the context of the Basel
  Convention and the Stockholm Convention, Sao
  Paolo, Brazil, 7-10 December 2004
  (BCRC-Argentina)
• Regional Workshop for Latin America and the
  Caribbean countries on the draft BAT/BEP
  Guidelines under the Stockholm Convention 2 - 4
  February 2005 (BCRC-Argentina)

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Workshops on the coordinated implementation of
Stockholm and Basel Conventions

• Regional workshop on the coordinated
  implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and
  Stockholm Conventions in Latin America and the
  Caribbean, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2830 January
  2004. (Basel Convention Coordinating Centre in
  Uruguay)
• Regional Workshop for the evaluation of existing
  capacities and those necessary for the analysis
  of persistent organic pollutants in Latin America
  and the Caribbean, Montevideo, 59 September 2005
  (BCRC-Uruguay)

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