Report of the first meeting of the Expert Group on Best Available Techniques and Best Environmental Practices

best available techniques and best environmental practices

Best Environmental Practices

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When applying best available techniques and best environmental practices, Parties should take into consideration the general guidance on prevention and release reduction measures in Annex C of the Convention and guidelines on best available techniques and best environmental practices to be adopted by decision of the Conference of the Parties

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Reference national implementation plans under the Stockholm Convention in BAT BEP in assessment of BAT BEP needs.

A precondition for replicating a best practice is that the Government that is implementing it has the necessary capacity to do so.

How does it work in practice?

Schedule for intersessional work in preparation for the second meeting of the Expert Group on Best Available Techniques and Best Environmental Practices

Update the BAT BEP document as and when necessary.

Review the performance of the BAT BEP guidelines, focusing on their technical feasibility and cost effectiveness, with special attention to developing countries.

The EU has recently adopted a guide to best practices on implementation of financial restrictive measures which contains a number of recommendations.

16 See Galimberti, Joseph, Adaptation of best practices the experience of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada , in Innovations in Governance and Public Administration, op. cit.

For the purposes of the present report, the guidelines on best available techniques and provisional guidance on best environmental practices are hereinafter referred to as the guidelines .

Greater attention should also be given to the exchange of information, experiences and best practices among States and organizations.

Recent treaty practice had tended to acknowledge the importance of such measures, but had left it to domestic law to indicate who might be entitled to take them.

Developing tools for providing local players information, showcasing, best practices, legislation etc.

On the one hand, it should move quickly to adopt a new and innovative approach and then implement it.

To prevent this, the report again usefully deviates from reigning orthodoxy, which tells countries to identify and copy best practices from abroad. This approach cannot succeed if such practices require what local government cannot deliver.

Measures to bridge the gap between policy and practice

The Expert Group on Best Available Techniques and Best Environmental Practices has considered the request from the Basel Convention inviting bodies of the Stockholm Convention to consider best available techniques and best environmental practices with respect to unintentionally produced persistent organic pollutants, including the more recent technologies for destruction and irreversible transformation listed in the general technical guidelines.

However, in practice this authority has become an extremely selective option.

Implementation approach C Learning by doing and doing better by learning

(a) Partnership in practice best practice approaches to comprehensive strategies for preventing and reducing drug abuse

The Expert Group met from 10 to 14 March 2003 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of American (report of the first session, UNEP POPS INC.7 6), from 8 to 12 12 December 2003 in Villarrica, Chile (report of the second session, UNEP POPS EGB.2 3), and from 11 to 16 October 2004 in Tokyo, Japan (report of the third session, UNEP POPS EGB.3 3).

(g) Best practices identified and disseminated for the implementation of measures for the protection of witnesses

(h) Best practices identified and disseminated for the implementation of measures to counter kidnapping

Further work on the enhancement or strengthening, as appropriate, of the guidelines on best available techniques and provisional guidance on best environmental practices relevant to the provisions of Article 5 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

Measures to address underperformance

Successful practices and innovations can be effectively transferred to other jurisdictions, and there is ample evidence that it can be done.20 In order to facilitate the replication of a best practice in a specific national context (and once all of the above criteria have been satisfied), it is very important to identify a set of measures that can assist interested Governments in the transfer process and plan to use the acquired knowledge and to put it into practice.

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Other information sharing measures may be implemented, for example to share information on operational best practices.

Identify and disseminate best practice in the various aspects of demand reductions as well as on the design, planning and implementation of alternative development programmes enable States to adopt adequate and timely strategies, policies and countermeasures against money laundering.

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to develop guidelines on best available techniques and to develop provisional guidance on best environmental practices relevant to the provisions of Article 5 of the Convention, for consideration by the Conference of the Parties upon entry into force of the Convention.

Updated information on measures taken since 1995 was included in the report on action taken to implement the Programme of Action (A 51 354).

Adapt the best available techniques best environmental practices (BAT BEP)BAT BEP guidelines to the realities of developing countries, in general and in Africa in particular, especially those guidelines for open burning and waste incineration.

At the same time, a number of measures and steps were taken to guarantee the best possible results.2

Develop recommendations for countries that which need support to include BAT BEP issues in their national sustainable sustainable development strategies and poverty poverty reduction strategies.

Intensive communication campaigns and availability of modern family planning measures gave women more and better choices for the most suitable contraceptive measures.

Now, pride of place in this practice is given to compassion.

2. Indigenous individuals have an equal right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. States shall take the necessary steps with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of this right.

197. Particular concern is expressed at the inadequate measures taken to ensure the effective implementation of the general principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child both in legislation and in practice.

That determination is to have due regard to the applicable standard of international practice, a formulation that ensures that the Convention takes account of developments in practice as regards the notion of facial conformity.