CONTROL SYSTEM FOR TRANSBOUNDARY MOVEMENTS OF

0,36
MB HAZARDOUS WASTES AND OTHER WASTES - INSTRUCTION

100
stron MANUAL

4743
ID United Nations Environment Programme

2002
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

PART I: Description of the control procedure

1. Introduction

2. Wastes controlled under the Basel Convention

2.1 What is waste?

2.2 Which wastes are covered by the Convention?

3. Restrictions on transboundary movements of hazardous and other wastes

4. General description of the control procedure

4.1 Responsibility to notify

4.2 Documentation and general notification

4.3 Contracts

4.4 Financial guarantees

4.5 International transport rules and regulations

4.6 Environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes and other wastes

5. Detailed description of the control procedure

5.1 Main stages of the control procedure

5.2 Check list for the exporter

5.3 Check list for the disposer

5.4 Check list for the competent authority of the State of export

5.5 Check list for the competent authority of the State of import

5.6 Check list for the competent authority of the State of transit

6. Other issues of importance

6.1 Transit through a State not party to the Basel Convention

6.2 Movements destined for disposal operations D13-D15 and R12-R13

6.3 Cases when the notification is to be sent to the Secretariat of the Basel Convention

6.4 Dealing with interpretation differences and the mutatis mutandis principle

7. Movements that cannot be completed as intended and illegal traffic

7.1 Movements that cannot be completed as intended

7.2 Illegal traffic

PART II: Notification and movement document

Notification

Instructions for completing the notification

Movement document

Instructions for completing the movement document

APPENDIXES

1 Glossary

2 Categories of wastes to be controlled and of wastes requiring special consideration (Annex I and II

of the Basel Convention) and Annexes VIII and IX containing the lists A and B of wastes

respectively

3 List of hazardous characteristics (Annex III to the Convention)

4 List of competent authorities and focal points of Contracting Parties

5 List of government authority of non-Contracting Parties

6 Basic elements to be included in the contract between the exporter and the disposer

7 Annex IV of the Convention (Disposal Operations)