The expert meeting on Best Available Techniques (BAT) and Best Environmental Practices (BEP) under the Stockholm Convention will focus on reviewing and finalizing the guidance documents being developed or updated during the current intersessional period, for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its thirteenth meeting.

Experts conclude brominated dioxins and furans may require global action and advance two widely used flame retardants to the next stage of review under the Stockholm Convention.

The Eleventh Expert Group meeting on DDT was held in Geneva, Switzerland from 14-16 September. Among others the objective of the meeting was to make recommendations to the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on the continued need for DDT for disease vector control and on any actions deemed necessary to reduce the reliance on DDT.