According to the current workplan, the following activities are to be implemented during the biennium 2015–16:
a) Involvement of Parties and other stakeholders
b) Exchange of information
c) Strategic partnerships
d) Financing
e) Servicing intergovernmental bodies and expert groups
a) Involvement of Parties and other stakeholders
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Targeted communication (newsletters, press releases, leaflets, website, promotion of online training on industrial accidents, cartoons and film on the Convention, participation in forums)
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Working visits and high-level meetings to Parties
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Working visits to other stakeholders
b) Exchange of information
- Exchange of experience and good practices among Parties and to promote the continuous organization of bilateral exercises for preparedness
- Raising knowledge on industrial safety at universities (follow-up to pilot project at Perm summer school, Russian Federation, possibly in cooperation with the ECE Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development)
- Guidance on the implementation of the Convention with regard to the amended annex I on hazardous substances for the purpose of identifying hazardous activities
c) Strategic partnerships
- Sharing of good practices on safety and land-use planning; development of guidance on safety and land-use planning (in cooperation with the ECE Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment and the ECE Committee on Housing and Land Management)
- Activities to raise awareness of the risk of complacency, to ensure prevention and to maintain a high level of safety, with partners
- Publishing and promotion of the checklist or methodology for harmonized contingency planning for accidents with potential impacts on transboundary waters and its application
- Meeting with partner organizations to coordinate joint activities (3rd Inter Agency Coordination Meeting on Industrial Accidents)
d) Financing
- Donor meetings and bilateral visits
e) Servicing intergovernmental bodies and expert groups
- Ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties
- Meetings of the Bureau
- Meetings of the Working Group on Implementation
- Meetings of the Working Group on the Development of the Convention
- Provision of legal advice to support the drafting of amendments
- Meetings of the Joint Expert Group on Water and Industrial Accidents
- Consultation for Points of Contacts to review the effectiveness of the ECE Industrial Accident Notification System and discuss preparedness and response for disaster risk reduction (possibly in cooperation with the European Union).