Online, 24-26 November 2025
Highlights: The Committee initiated its consideration of all the activities of its work programme for 2026-2027, which included the consideration of submissions and questions relating to Parties’ compliance, as well as the consideration of systemic issues of general compliance and implementation covering a range of obligations under the Convention pertaining to the designation of national focal point and official contact points, the transmission of national reports and national implementation plans, the development of national legislation, the elimination or restriction of persistent organic pollutants, and the provision of technical assistance and financial resources.
In addition, the Committee took steps to initiate cooperation with the Implementation and Compliance Committee of the Basel Convention and the Compliance Committee of the Rotterdam Convention.
The Committee agreed it will review at it second meeting updated and more granular information on the status of Parties’ implementation of their obligations. The upcoming discussions will draw on information about activities undertaken by the Secretariat and key partners, including the Global Environment Facility, the United Nations Environment Programme and the 17 Stockholm Convention Regional and Sub-regional Centres, aimed at improving the implementation of the Convention. The Committee will also review insights on challenges faced by Parties in meeting specific obligations under the Convention and consider possible recommendations on how to improve Parties’ implementation of the Convention. The Committee also requested the Secretariat to communicate with the three Parties that have not designated any of the required country contacts under the Convention, namely a national focal point and an official contact point, with a view to establishing the facts and the root causes of the matter of concern and to assisting in its resolution.
The Committee will convene its second meeting face to face in Geneva, back to back with the seventeenth meeting of the Basel Convention Implementation and Compliance Committee and the fourth meeting of the Rotterdam Convention Compliance Committee, with a joint session of the three committees on 19 June 2026.
Working Language: English