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| Senior Officials Meeting on the 3R Initiative |
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The Senior Officials Meeting on the 3R Initiative, as a follow-up to the Ministerial Conference on the 3R Initiative held in April 2005, was held in Tokyo, Japan on March 6-8, 2006 and was hosted by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan. There were twenty participating countries, the EC, and seven participating international organisations and networks presented at the meeting.
Two major challenges were discussed at the meeting: 1) implementation of the 3Rs within each participating country, and 2) the international promotion of the 3Rs, such as the international flow of 3R-related goods, materials and products. The meeting facilitated sharing knowledge of advanced activities from participating countries and organisations, and communicating future directions of activities among participating countries and organisations.
IGES's Long-term Perspective and Policy Integration Project took part in the meeting and besides acting as the secretariat its duties included: preparing the meeting documents, such as issue papers and the chair's summary; conducting a questionnaire survey on the 3R policies and activities for the participating countries and organisations; and, supporting the various chairs at the plenary and working group sessions. |
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