Requests directed at Parties and other stakeholders contained in the decisions of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (3/9/2008)

The Secretariat of the Basel Convention on the Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal is seeking applications for a 20-day consultancy position to assist the Basel Convention Implementation and Compliance Committee in in reviewing and assessing the application of the control system for the transboundary movement of wastes (notification document and movement document) and the difficulties that Parties face in implementing the system. Interesting candidates are invited to consult the attached terms of reference and to submit their candidature by 29 January 2010 to juliette.kohler@unep.ch, with the reference "documents", and using the attached P11 form:

• Legal consultant announcement.
• UN Personal history form (P11 From)

The Implementation and Compliance Committee of the Convention has developed a directory of training institutions which offer courses that can help Parties to deal with cases of illegal traffic under the Convention. Relevant institutions which are interested in being included in the directory are invited to complete the forms (available in English, French and Spanish) and transmit them (saved as MS Word documents) to the Secretariat at SBC@unep.ch

Prosolwaste a website devoted to the identification and solution of waste problems has developed a query-response system for waste management