National legislative and other measures
Decision BC-10/3 requests, among other things:
- Basel Convention Regional and Coordinating Centres to consult with Parties within their regions to identify the needs of such developing countries and the difficulties they face with regard to prohibiting the import of hazardous wastes; and to make this information available to the Secretariat for dissemination to Parties;
- The Secretariat to facilitate and encourage greater use of the model national legislation for the development or revision of national legislative and other measures for the prohibition of imports of hazardous wastes.
National lists of prohibited wastes
Decision BC-10/3 also encourages Parties to develop and update national lists of prohibited hazardous wastes, to transmit them to the Secretariat and to cooperate with one another in the development of such lists.
The Secretariat is requested to continue to adopt a proactive approach to collect information under Article 4(1) and Article 13(2) of the Convention, especially the lists of prohibited wastes and to disseminate such lists electronically at six-month intervals.
The lists of prohibited wastes have been made available and at six month intervals updated since in April 2012. Parties are invited to transmit their lists of prohibited wastes to the Secretariat, using the standardized reporting format for transmitting information under paragraphs 1(a) and (b) of Article 4 and paragraphs 2 (c) and (d) of Article 13 of the Convention or the national reporting revised questionnaire on transmission of information.
The Secretariat maintains a database of notifications transmitted to it by Parties on their national definitions of hazardous wastes and on import/export restrictions, which also includes information on national lists of prohibited hazardous wastes.
Trade and environment
Decision BC-10/3 requests the Secretariat to assist Parties towards a better understanding of the relationship between trade and the environment as relating to the transboundary movements of wastes.