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Training Workshop September 2022

Below you will find the presentations made at the Training Workshop that was held in Geneva from 12-16 September 2022. Representatives from the Federal Ministry of Environment, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Federal Ministry of Justice, and the Basel Convention Coordinating Centre for Africa were trained on the six training packages as presented on this website.

Presentations by BRS Secretariat

Legal and institutional frameworks to implement the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

Enforcement and preventing and combating
illegal traffic under the Basel Convention

Presentations by Minamata Secretariat

Minamata Convention on Mercury:
From history to implementation

Presentations by KEMI (Swedish Chemical Agency)

and guidance document on Legislation

Risk reduction
 

Legislation on chemicals placed on the market
 

Enforcement of legislation on chemicals
placed on the market

KEMI guidance on legislation
 

Presentation by Yvonne Ryan, University of Limerick

An Introduction to the STRIKE Project and the Importance of Appropriate Treatment of Mercury Added Products in E-Waste

Presentation by Jakob Maag, UNITAR

Mercury – Concerns and Legislation
 

Forensic tools for detection and investigation
of waste and mercury crime

Other presentations by UNITAR

The Globally Harmonized System of
Classification and Labelling of Chemicals

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Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers –
How PRTRs work

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