The Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions draws the attention of Parties to the fact that the 2025 meetings of the Conferences of the Parties (COPs) to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions are expected to undertake a number of elections of officers and members of subsidiary bodies, as follows:

Basel Convention

• Bureau of the Conference of the Parties
• Bureau of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG)
• Implementation and Compliance Committee (ICC)
• Environmental Network for Optimizing Regulatory Compliance on Illegal Traffic (ENFORCE)

Rotterdam Convention

• Bureau of the Conference of the Parties
• Compliance Committee
• Chemical Review Committee (CRC)

Stockholm Convention

• Bureau of the Conference of the Parties
• POPs Review Committee
• Compliance Committee

Please see here an overview of all elections to take place during the 2025 meetings.

Facilitation of the process for nominating candidates for election

During their 2023 meetings, the COPs to the three conventions agreed to entrust their respective Bureau, with the support of the Secretariat, to facilitate during the intersessional period preceding the 2025 meetings the process of nominating candidates for election.

In their respective meetings held in May and June 2024, the Bureaux of the COPs received an information package from the Secretariat on the elections to take place during the 2025 meetings as well as a proposal on the steps that could be taken by each Bureau, with the support of the Secretariat, to facilitate the process for nominating candidates for election. Following the consideration of this matter, each Bureau agreed for the Secretariat to send an invitation to Parties, on behalf of the bureau, to submit nominations by 1 February 2025, so that Parties could consult in their regions on these nominations in advance of and during the regional preparatory meetings with a view to facilitating decision making on elections during the 2025 meetings of the COPs.

Additionally, the Bureaux, during their joint meeting in November 2024, agreed to identify regional election focal points and to entrust them, with the support of the Secretariat, with further facilitating the process for nominating candidates for election. Below are the current regional election focal points from the respective regions:

1. Sheik Tunis (Sierra Leone) for the Africa region;
2. Sameera Mohammed Al-dosari (Qatar) for the Asia and Pacific region;
3. Mario Vujić (Croatia) for the Eastern Europe region;
4. Osvaldo Alvarez Perez (Chile) for the Latin America and Caribbean region;
5. Sverre Thomas Jahre (Norway) and Katja Maria Larsen (Denmark) for the Western Europe and Other States region.

In a 15 November 2024 Communication, Parties were invited to submit any nomination for election by 1 February 2025.

Further information on bureaux and subsidiary bodies under the conventions can be found under other sections of the conventions’ websites.