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Technical Guidelines UNITED NATIONS BC UNEP/CHW.13/6/Add.4/Rev.1 Distr.: General 13 July 2017 Original: English Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal Thirteenth meeting Geneva, 24 April–5 May 2017 Agenda item 4 (b) (i) Matters related to the implementation of the Convention: scientific and technical matters: technical guidelines Technical guidelines Addendum Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated terphenyls, polychlorinated naphthalenes or polybrominated biphenyls including hexabromobiphenyl Note by the Secretariat At its thirteenth meeting, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal adopted, in decision BC-13/4 on technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants, the technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated terphenyls, polychlorinated naphthalenes or polybrominated biphenyls including hexabromobiphenyl, on the basis of the draft technical guidelines contained in document UNEP/CHW.13/6/Add.4. The technical guidelines referred to above were prepared by Japan, in consultation with the small intersessional working group on the development of technical guidelines on persistent organic pollutants wastes and taking into account comments received from Parties and others and comments provided at the tenth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention. The technical guidelines were further revised on 1 March 2017 taking into account the outcome of the face-to-face meeting of the small intersessional working group on the development of technical guidelines on persistent organic pollutants wastes held from 20 to 22 February 2017 in Bonn, Germany (see document UNEP/CHW.13/INF/63). The text of the final version of the technical guidelines, as adopted, is set out in the annex to the present note. The present note, including its annex, has not been formally edited. 191217 UNEP/CHW.13/6/Add.4/Rev.1 Annex Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated terphenyls, polychlorinated naphthalenes or polybrominated biphenyls including hexabromobiphenyl Revised final version (5 May 2017) 2 UNEP/CHW.13/6/Add.4/Rev.1 Contents Abbreviations and acronyms ............................................................................................................................... 5 Units of measurement ........................................................................................................................................... 5 I. Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 6 A. Scope...................................................................................................................................................... 6 B. Description, production, use and wastes ................................................................................................ 6 1. Description .................................................................................................................................... 6 (a) PCBs ..................................................................................................................................... 6 (b) PCTs ...................................................................................................................................... 7 (c) PCNs ..................................................................................................................................... 7 (d) PBBs ..................................................................................................................................... 7 2. Production ..................................................................................................................................... 8 (a) PCBs ..................................................................................................................................... 8 (b) PCTs ...................................................................................................................................... 9 (c) PCNs ................................................................................................................................... 10 (d) PBBs ................................................................................................................................... 11 3. Use ............................................................................................................................................... 12 (a) PCBs ................................................................................................................................... 12 (b) PCTs .................................................................................................................................... 12 (c) PCNs ................................................................................................................................... 13 (d) PBBs ................................................................................................................................... 13 4. Wastes ......................................................................................................................................... 14 II. Relevant provisions of the Basel and Stockholm conventions ................................................................ 14 A. Basel Convention ................................................................................................................................. 14 B. Stockholm Convention......................................................................................................................... 17 III. Issues under the Stockholm Convention to be addressed cooperatively with the Basel Convention .. 19 A. Low POP content ................................................................................................................................. 19 B. Levels of destruction and irreversible transformation .......................................................................... 19 C. Methods that constitute environmentally sound disposal..................................................................... 19 IV. Guidance on environmentally sound management (ESM) ..................................................................... 19 A. General considerations ......................................................................................................................... 19 B. Legislative and regulatory framework ................................................................................................. 19 C. Waste prevention and minimization .................................................................................................... 20 D. Identification of wastes ........................................................................................................................ 21 1. Identification ............................................................................................................................... 21 2. Inventories ................................................................................................................................... 22 E. Sampling, analysis and monitoring ...................................................................................................... 22 1. Sampling ...................................................................................................................................... 22 2. Analysis ....................................................................................................................................... 23 3. Monitoring ................................................................................................................................... 25 F. Handling, collection, packaging, labelling, transportation and storage ............................................... 25 1. Handling ...................................................................................................................................... 25 2. Collection .................................................................................................................................... 26 3. Packaging .................................................................................................................................... 26 4. Labelling ...................................................................................................................................... 26 3 UNEP/CHW.13/6/Add.4/Rev.1 5. Transportation ............................................................................................................................. 27 6. Storage ......................................................................................................................................... 27 G. Environmentally sound disposal .......................................................................................................... 27 1. Pre-treatment ..............................................................................................................................
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