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16 November  2022 
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  Original: English  
 
DIALOGUE ON PLASTICS POLLUTION  
AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE PLASTICS TRADE  
CONVENING NOTICE  
Revision  
The following revised convening notice, dated 15 November  2022, is being circulated at the request 
of the Dialogue  Coordinators and Facilitators . 
 
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1. The Dialogue  will hold its next  pre-plenary meeting s in hybrid mode  (Room S3/S1  and Zoom)  
on Thursday  17 and Friday  18 November  2022, from 10 a.m.  Geneva time.  All WTO Members 
are invited to attend the meeting . Please see technical arrangements in Annex I . 
2. Draft a genda1 
1) Introductory remarks by coordinators  
2) Focused discussions on Single Use Plastics (SUP)  and products2 
a. Guiding technical questions:  
i. What are the key criteria to be considered  when identifying SUP and products  
targeted by Trade -related Plastics Measures (TrPMs) ? Are there examples of 
particularly problematic SUP and products that would fit these criteria?  
ii. What are the key criteria to be considered when  identifying environmentally 
sustainable and effective substitutes and alternatives  to SUP and products 
targeted by TrPMs ? Are there examples of particularly desira ble substitutes 
and alternatives  to SUP and products that would fit these criteria?  
b. Overview of trade policies targeting SUP found in the Dialogue's Survey of TrPMs  – 
WTO Secretariat . 
c. Delegations and S takeholders  are invited to provide evidence -based information , 
perspectives  and data  that would help address the guiding technical questions 
above .  
 
1 Presentations and interventions are issued as room documents when received and made available at 
the Dialogue WTO website .  
2 According to the Dialogue Plan 2022 (INF/TE /IDP/W/5), work intersessionally is to be advanced through 
three workstreams, namely on: Crosscutting issues; Promoting Trade to Tackle Plastic Pollution; and Circularity 
and Reduction to Tackle Plastic Pollution. To facilitate active and holistic engageme nt towards further concrete, 
pragmatic and effective outcomes at the latest by MC13, this last pre -plenary meeting for 2022 is focusing on a 
few themes under which the topics covered by each workstream are being discussed.   INF/TE/IDP/CN/9 /Rev.1  
 
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  i. International Bamboo and Rattan Organization (INBAR) , the Bamboo as a 
Substitute for Plastic Initiative  and their expe rience in enhancing product 
identification under the Harmonized System (HS)  
ii. University of Portsmouth – Global Plastics Policy Review  
iii. Pew Charitable Trusts – Lessons from the Breaking the plastic wave  study 
applicable to SUP and products  
3) Focused discussions on plastic  packaging , in particular those  associated with 
international trade  
a. Guiding technical questions:  
i. What TrPMs  could support increased use of recycled content in packaging ? 
How to ensure rPET and other recycled  plastics, alternatives and substitutes 
meet trade -related sanitary and phytosanitary requirements?   
ii. How could ambitious customs authorities and/or leading enterprises help 
identify material flows of plastic packaging used in traded goods ? Would 
sectoral averages be a potential first step?  
b. Overview of trade policies targeting packaging  found in the Dialogue's Survey of 
TrPMs  – WTO Secretariat  
c. Delegations and Stakeholders are invited to provide evidence -based information , 
perspectives  and data  that would help address the guiding technical questions 
above . 
i. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), guidance on 
"food grade" requirements for food packaging.  
ii. Duke University – Plastic Policy Inventory . 
4) Focused discussions on plastic  waste management and trade  
a. Guiding technical questions:  
i. What environmentally sustainable and effective technologies could support 
the implementation of the Basel Convention Plastic Waste Amendments ? 
ii. What are the key criteria to be considered when identifying compostable 
plastics targeted by TrPMs ? What related capacity needs can be identified?  
iii. What TrPMs could support addressing illegal trade in plastic wastes?  
b. Overview of trade policies targeting waste and scrap  found in the Dialogue's Survey 
of TrPMs – WTO Secretariat . 
c. Delegations and Stakeholders  are invited to provide evidence -based information , 
perspectives  and data  that would help address the guiding technical questions 
above.  
i. RecyClass  – technical requirements for recyclability  
ii. Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat – technologies 
related to the implementation of the Basel Convention Plastic Waste 
Amendments  and recent developments under the Plastic Waste Partnership  
(PWP).  
5) Any other business or interventions by d elegations and stakeholders  
6) Concluding remarks by coordinators  
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  Annex I - Technical Arrangements  
 
Please note that this meeting will be held in  hybrid mode  (room S3 on 17 November and room S1 
on 18 November morning,  and via Zoom).  
 
1  REMOTE PARTICIPATION  
Delegates wishing to participate virtually via the Zoom platform, including capital -based officials,  
must register through this link:  
https://worldtradeorganization.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlceiurjIsG9PAudZ539jRHXaDbrG9HQ
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the 
meeting.  
 
If prompted for the following inf ormation when accessing the meeting, please enter:  
 
Meeting ID – 878 6160 9617  
Meeting Passcode – 111722  
 
Before the meeting:  
 
• We are available 1/2 hour before the meeting to test your connection with you.  
 
During the meeting:  
 
• If technical difficulties result in delegations being unable to intervene virtually under a given 
agenda item, the opportunity to take the floor will be given at an appropriate juncture before 
the meeting closes. Should the technical problem persist, delegations may contact the 
meeting coordinators ( idp@wto.org ) during the course of the meeting, either to send their 
statement for it to be read out during the meeting, or to request that the attendees be 
informed of their interest in the item under consideration and their intention to circulate 
their written statement after the meeting.  
 
2  ATTENDANCE IN THE MEETING ROOM  
For the health pr otection of all, and to respect the sanitary measures in place , masks remain 
recommended in common areas and meeting rooms . 
 
3  STATEMENTS  
To facilitate interpretation, delegations are strongly encouraged to send their written statements to 
the Secretariat ( idp@wto.org ) before the meeting starts. Statements will also be gratefully received 
during the meeting  (idp@wto.org ). 
 
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