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May 27, 2013 · The Basel Convention is a multilateral environmental agreement. Its aim is to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects of hazardous wastes and other wastes based on their origin and/or composition and their characteristics.
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to restrict the transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed ...
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal is an international treaty that provides an obligation to control the transboundary movements and disposal of hazardous wastes.
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal was adopted on 22 March 1989 by the Conference of Plenipotentiaries in Basel, Switzerland, in response to a public outcry following the discovery, in the 1980s, in Africa and other parts of the developing world of deposits of toxic wastes ...
Dec 9, 2011 · The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal was adopted in 1989 and it came into force in 1992. It is the most comprehensive global environmental agreement on hazardous wastes and other wastes.
The text of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal was adopted on 22 March 1989 and entered into force on the ninetieth day after the date of deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification, acceptance, formal confirmation, approval or accession, on 5 May 1992.
BASEL CONVENTION ON THE CONTROL OF TRANSBOUNDARY MOVEMENTS OF HAZARDOUS WASTES AND THEIR DISPOSAL1 PREAMBLE2 The Parties to this Convention, Aware of the risk of damage to human health and the environment caused by hazardous wastes and other wastes and the transboundary movement thereof, Mindful of the growing threat to human health and the
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal is the most comprehensive global environmental treaty on hazardous and other wastes.
The Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions are multilateral environmental agreements international treaties that address hazardous waste and chemicals management.
1. General. The Basel Convention is the sole global legal instrument addressing transboundary movements and environmentally sound management of hazardous and other wastes....
