15 September 2014
BRS Secretariat Releases September 2014 Technical Assistance Newsletter
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The Basel, Stockholm and Rotterdam (BRS) Conventions Secretariat has released its fifth Technical Assistance Newsletter.

The newsletter includes brief updates on recent activities, news, and upcoming technical assistance events.

Basel-Rotterdam-StockholmSeptember 2014: The Basel, Stockholm and Rotterdam (BRS) Conventions Secretariat has released its fifth Technical Assistance Newsletter. The newsletter includes brief updates on recent activities, news, and upcoming technical assistance events.

The newsletter outlines recent activities including: the Basel Regional Centre for South America’s cooperation with Peru’s Environment Ministry and the private sector to develop a Pilot Plan on decontaminating PCB transformers, as part of the ‘Best Practices for PCB Management in Mining Sector South-America’ project; a Latin American regional workshop on revising and updating national implementation plans (NIPs) and reporting under the Stockholm Convention; and a regional synergy capacity building workshop held in Minsk, Belarus. [Publication: Technical Assistance Newsletter, No. 5]

 

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