The second meeting of the Ad Hoc Joint Working Group (AHJWG) on Enhanced Cooperation and Coordination between the Basel, Stockholm and Rotterdam Conventions convened from 10-13 December 2007 in Vienna, Austria.

Participation in the meeting was limited to the 45 members of the AHJWG. The meeting discussed administrative, information management and public awareness, technical substantive, and organizational issues. The meeting agreed that intersessional work prior to the third meeting will focus on developing draft recommendations on, inter alia: administrative issues including back-to-back meetings, resource mobilization, financial management and audit functions; information and public awareness; technical substantive issues including national reporting and potential coordination on compliance; and organizational issues including coordination at the national level, programmatic cooperation in the field and coordinated use of offices and regional centres. The AHJWG agreed that it would meet again from 25-28 March 2008 in Rome, Italy. The recommendations from the meeting will be considered by the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions at their respective Conferences of the Parties (IISD RS sources).
Link to further information
AHJWG website