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Legal instrument details: Basel Convention

Classification
Legal name
Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal
Short name
Basel Convention
CELEX reference
21993A0216(02)
Identification number
Issued by
United Nations
URL to issuer
http://www.basel.int
Parent legal instrument
Abstract
The Convention is the response of the international community to the problems caused by the annual worldwide production of 400 million tonnes of wastes which are hazardous to people or the environment because they are toxic, poisonous, explosive, corrosive, flammable, eco-toxic, or infectious. The Convention aims in introducing a system for controlling the export, import and disposal of hazardous wastes and their disposal, to reduce the volume of such exchanges so as to protect human health and the environment. This global environmental treaty strictly regulates the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and provides obligations to its Parties to ensure that such wastes are managed and disposed of in an environmentally sound manner.
Reporting framework
Reporting obligations
Comments
EC accession
Convention secretariat
Secretariat of the Basel Convention, United Nations Environment Programme