| Overview
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The Partnership
for Action on Computing Equipment (PACE)
was launched at the ninth meeting of the
Conference of the Parties to the Basel
Convention, which took place in Bali, Indonesia
from 23 to 27 June 2008. PACE is a multi-stakeholder
partnership that will provide a forum for
governments, industry leaders, non-governmental
organizations and academia to tackle the
environmentally sound management, refurbishment,
recycling and disposal of used and end-of-life
computing equipment.
The Partnership
is intended to increase the environmentally
sound management of used and end-of-life
computing equipment, taking into account
social responsibility and the concept of
sustainable development, and promoting
the sharing of information on life cycle
thinking.
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| PACE
Working Group |
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The Working Group
on the Partnership (see Term
of References),
established by the Conference of the Parties
in its decision IX/9, is the operating
mechanism for the Partnership and organizational
matters, and serves as a forum for information
sharing.
Membership of the
working group is open to Parties or signatories
to the Basel Convention, intergovernmental
and non-governmental organizations, all
stakeholders, including manufacturers,
recyclers, refurbishers and academia, and,
Basel Convention Regional and Coordinating
Centres for Capacity Building and Technology
Transfer (BCRCs) which have specific expertise
and experience required for the activities
of this group. The Working Group elaborated
its work plan, terms of reference, financial
arrangements and established four project
groups to launch projects to implement
four agreed activities.
The "Relevant
Documents"
page contains the report of the meetings
as well as other documents on PACE.
The PACE Working
Group continues to seek a balanced and
diverse partnership and welcomes new members
with special expertise, especially original
equipment manufacturers, refurbishers,
recyclers, as well as academia, environmental
groups, international organizations and
governments
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| PACE
Project Groups |
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The Partnership
for Action on Computing Equipment (PACE)
has created four Project Groups at the
PACE Working Group’s physical meeting
in Geneva in May 2009. The main task of
these Project Groups is to develop products,
as per the COP 9 decision on PACE. The
following Project Groups with respective
Terms of References have been established:
- Ad Interim Project Group on Environmentally
Sound Management (ESM) Criteria. See
Term of References
- Project Group 1.1 on Environmentally
Sound Refurbishment/Repair of Used Computing
Equipment. See
Term
of References
- Project Group 2.1 on Environmentally
Sound Material Recovery/ Recycling of
End-of-Life Computing Equipment. See
Term of References
- Project Group 3.1 on Pilot Projects
on Collection of e-waste from Informal
Sectors. See Term of References
- Project Group 4.1 on Awareness Raising and Training. See Term of Reference
The work of all
Project Groups has started and they initiated
a number of tasks to develop their products.
Meeting documents and products will be
posted on the PACE documents website when
approved.
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Current Status |
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The Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment (PACE) finalized and approved the overall Guidance Document on Environmentally Sound Management of Used and End-of-Life Computing Equipment. The seventh meeting of the Open-ended Working Group by its decision VII/3 requested the Secretariat to publish the overall Guidance Document for comments by Parties, Signatories and stakeholders. Parties, Signatories and stakeholders are invited to submit any comments on this overall Guidance Document to the Secretariat by 31 May, 2011 (E-mail: Matthias Kern or fax: +41 22 797 3454). For ease of reference the overall Guidance Document is attached in the "Relevant Document" section in PDF and WORD formats.
The Partnership further finalized and approved the following documents which are being published on this website for your information:
Please note that the two technical guidelines (Environmentally Sound Testing, Refurbishment and Repair of Used Computing Equipment; and Environmentally Sound Material Recovery and Recycling of End-of-Life Computing Equipment) will be evaluated in a facility type of the environment and subsequently revised taking into consideration results of these evaluations. For ease of reference all these documents are attached in the "Relevant Document" section.
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In accordance
with the Nairobi Declaration and decisions 
