Basel Convention
| Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and Their Disposal | |
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| Short title: | Basel Convention |
| Title (engl.): | Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal |
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| Date: | March 22, 1989 |
| Reference: | treaties.un.org |
| Contract type: | Multinational |
| Legal matter: | Waste law |
| Signing: | 53 |
| Ratification : | 187
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| Germany: | April 21, 1995 |
| Austria: | January 12, 1993 |
| Switzerland: | January 31, 1990 |
| Please note the note on the applicable contract version . | |
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal of 22 March 1989, also known as the Basel Convention (full title: Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal ), is an international environmental agreement , that has introduced environmentally friendly waste management and regulates the control of the cross-border transport of hazardous waste.
Participants and entry into force
The agreement entered into force on May 5, 1992. Switzerland has been a contractual partner since January 31, 1990, Austria since January 12, 1993, and Germany since July 20, 1995. The European Union has implemented the directives in the EU Waste Shipment Regulation in a legally binding manner for all member states (entered into force in 1993, in use since May 6, 1994, expired in 2007). It has been replaced by Regulation (EC) No. 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council (of June 14, 2006) on shipments of waste .
The United States is the only developed country that a ratification has so far refused, which many sites like Greenpeace and the Basel Action Network in Seattle is denounced as the US export around 80 percent of their electronic waste. In the meantime (as of June 2020) 187 states have acceded to the convention.
In the 1990s, the African Union negotiated the Bamako Convention as an extension to the Basel Convention and put it into effect.
See also
Web links
- Secretariat of the Basel Convention (English)
- ECOLEX (portal for environmental law of the FAO , IUCN and UNEP ): Basel Convention , contract text (English)
- Federal Chancellery (Switzerland): Text of the Convention , with history (German)
- EUR-Lex : Summary of the documents on the Basel Convention, with links (German)
- Federal Office for the Environment : 20th anniversary of the signing of the Basel Convention , November 17, 2009
- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety : Legislation on cross-border waste shipment , with links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Regulation (EC) No. 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council (of June 14, 2006) on shipments of waste. (PDF file; 1.56 MB)
- ↑ Jochen Hippler, Jeanette Schade: US unilateralism as a problem of international politics and global governance (INEF Report 70), Duisburg 2003.