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2c Art. 1(1)b wastes
UN Region:	 Africa
Algeria
2002	Algeria regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1 
	(1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of transboundary
	 movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 
Botswana
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Cameroon
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Egypt
2002	Egypt is in a preparatory process to regulate/control wastes defined as, or considered 
	to be hazardous wastes by national legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of 
	the Basel Convention. 
Ethiopia
2002	Ethiopia regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 
	1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

The definition above is so broad that it includes such wastes as radioactive wastes.
Gambia
2002	Gambia is in a preparatory process to regulate/control wastes defined as, or considered
	 to be hazardous wastes by national legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of 
	the Basel Convention. 

These wastes are yet to be determined.
Kenya
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Madagascar
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Mali
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Morocco
2002	Morocco is in a preparatory process to regulate/control wastes defined as, or 
	considered to be hazardous wastes by national legislation in accordance with Art. 1, 
	para 1(b) of the Basel Convention. 

The preparation of the list of hazardous wastes subject to import ban is foreseen by the Law on
 Hazardous Wastes Management and their Disposal.

Mozambique
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Niger
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Seychelles
2002	Seychelles regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in 
	Art. 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Internally there are certain wastes such as phytosanitary wastes for certain plant diseases that 
require strict control over their movement. If these are shipped across frontiers they shall be 
subject to controls similar to that applied under the Convention.
South Africa
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Tanzania (United Republic of)
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Tunisia
2002	Tunisia regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1
	 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

For wastes included in the Tunisian definition of hazardous wastes that are in addition to those 
defined under Art. 1 (1)a of the Basel convention (Refer to Attachment 2 of the latest Country fact sheet of Tunisia, which is available at www.basel.int)
Zambia
2002	Zambia regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1
	 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Schedule 4 (Regulation 3), Schedule 5 (Regulation 3), Schedule 6 of the Hazardous Waste 
Management Regulations, 2001, provides a list of hazardous waste, list of hazardous 
characteristics (Annex III of the Basel Convention) and categories of wastes to be controlled 
(Annex I of the Basel Convention) respectively.
UN Region:	 Asia and Pacific
Azerbaijan
	2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Bahrain
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Bangladesh
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Cambodia
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Cyprus
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.

As of 1 May, 2004 Cyprus is to be a member of the EU, the relevant EU legislation will be fully 
adopted.
Indonesia
2002	Indonesia regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art.
	 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

The Government Regulation No. 85/1999 regarding Hazardous Waste Management lists these 
wastes: 
Table 1: List of hazardous waste from non-specific sources; 
Table 2: List of hazardous waste from specific sources; and 
Table 3: List of hazardous waste from overdue chemicals that are expired, spilled package 
		 residue or off-specific action products.
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Japan
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.

Japan regulates/controls only wastes included in Art.1 (1)a of the Basel Convention for the 
purpose of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes, and does not regulates any 
additional wastes that are defined as or are considered to be hazardous wastes by the domestic 
legislation of Japan (which means wastes defined in Art.1 (1)b).
Jordan
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Malaysia
2002	Malaysia regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 
	1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

These wastes are: slags from copper processing; oil tanker sludges; granulated slag; and spent 
industrial catalysts.

Import of waste from European Community will be considered as Amber List. The lists are as 
follows: 

(a) GA. Metal and metal-alloy waste in metallic, non-dispersible form
GA 150    7802 00        Lead waste and scrap
GA 240    ex8107 10    Cadmium waste and scrap
(b) GG. Other wastes containing principally inorganic constituents, which may contain metal 
and organic materials
GG 010, GG 020, GG 030, GG 040, GG 100, GG 110, GG 140
(c) GH. Solid plastic wastes
All categories of plastic wastes
(d) GJ. Textile wastes
All categories of textile wastes
(e) GK. Rubber wastes
All categories of rubber wastes
(f) GM. Waste arising from agro-food industries
All categories
(g) GN. Waste arising from tanning and fellmongery operations and leather use
All categories
(h) GO. Other wastes
GO 010, GO 020, GO 030, GO 050
Micronesia (Federated States of)
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Philippines
2002	Philippines regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in 
	Art. 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

These wastes are listed in Table 1 of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources 
Admistrative Order No. 29:

SECTION 25. CLASSIFICATION OF HAZARDOUS WASTE

1.	The classes and subcategories of wastes listed in Table 1 shall be prescribed as hazardous waste for the purposes of these Rules and Regulations.

2	The types of wastes listed in Table 2 shall be exempted from the requirements of these Rules and Regulations.

3	The listings provided for Tables 1 and 2 are not inclusive and shall be subject to periodic review.

TABLE 1. PRESCRIBED HAZARDOUS WASTES
Class | Subcategory | Waste Number
Plating wastes | Discarded plating solutions and salts with a cyanide concentration of less than 200 ppm. | A101
| Discarded heat treatment solutions and salts with a cyanide concentration of  less than 200 ppm. | A102
| Plating solutions and salts containing cyanides at a concentration exceeding 200 ppm. | A103
| Heat treatment solutions and salts containing cyanides at a concentration exceeding 200 ppm. | A104
| Complexed cyanide solutions and salts | A105
| Other cyanide wastes arising from the plating and heat treatment industries | A199
Acid Wastes | Sulfuric acid | B201
| Hydrochloric Acid | B202
| Nitric acid | B203
| Phosphoric acid | B204
| Hydrofluoric acid | B205
| Mixture of Sulfuric and Hydrochloric Acid | B206
| Other inorganic acids | B207
| Organic acids | B208
| Other mixed acids | B299
Alkali Wastes | Caustic soda | C301
| Potash | C302
| Alkaline cleaners | C303
| Ammonium hydroxide | C304
| Lime slurries | C305
| Lime-neutralized metal sludges | C306
| Other alkaline materials | C399
Inorganic Chemical | Nontoxic salts | D401
Wastes | Arsenic and its compounds | D402
| Boron compounds | D403
| Cadmium and its compounds | D404
| Chromium compounds | D405
| Lead compounds | D406
| Mercury and mercuric compounds | D407
| Other salts and complexes | D499
Reactive Chemical | Oxidizing agents | D501
Wastes | Reducing agents | D502
| Explosive and unstable chemicals | D503
| Highly reactive chemicals | D599
Paints/Resins/Latices/ | Aqueous-based | E601
Inks/Dyes/Adhesives/ | Solvent-based | E602
Organic Sludges | Other mixed | E699
Organic solvents | Flash point>61^oC | F701
| Flash point<61^oC | F702
| Chlorinated solvents and Residues | F703
Putrescible/Organic | Animal/abattoir wastes | G801
Wastes | Grease trap wastes from industrial or commercial premises | G802
| Others | G899
Textile | Tannery wastes | H901
| Other textile wastes | H999
Oil | Waste oils | I101
| Interceptor sludges | I102
| Vegetable oils | I103
| Waste tallow | I104
| Oil/water mixtures | I105
Containers | Portable containers previously containing toxic chemical substances | J201
Immobilized Wastes | Solidified and polymerized wastes | K301
| Chemically fixed wastes | K302
| Encapsulated wastes | K303
Organic Chemicals | Aliphatics | L401
| Aromatics and phenolics | L402
| Highly odorous | L403
| Surfactants and detergents | L404
| Halogenated solvents | L405
| Polychlorinated biphenyls and related materials | L406
| Other organic chemicals | L499
Miscellaneous Wastes | Pathogenic or infectious wastes | M501
| Asbestos wastes | M502
| Pharmaceutical wastes and drugs | M503
| Pesticides | M504

TABLE 2. EXEMPTED WASTES
DESCRIPTION
Garbage from domestic premises and households.
Industrial and commercial waste waters which are disposed of on-site through the sewage system.
Industrial and commercial solid wastes which do not contain prescribed hazardous wastes as identified in Table 1.
Materials from building demolition except asbestos.
Septic tank effluents and associated sullage waste waters.
Untreated spoils from mining, quarrying and excavation works but not materials in the nature of tailings, commercially treated materials and mine facility consumables.

Qatar
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Republic of Korea
2002	Republic of Korea regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not 
	included in Art. 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose
	 of transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

The Amber Tier wastes determined by OECD are additionally controlled for the purpose of 
transboundary movement.

Singapore
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Sri Lanka
2002	Sri Lanka regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art.
	 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Radioactive wastes are controlled as hazardous.
Thailand
2002	Thailand regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 
	1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Thailand has defined the list of hazardous waste for the purpose pursuant to Art. (1) b in the 
Notification of Ministry of Industry No. 6 B.E. 2540 (1997) issued pursuant to the provisions 
in the Factory Act B.E. 2535 (1992) on Disposal of Wastes or Unusable Materials. The 
categories of industrial hazardous wastes were defined and listed in 4 items as follows:

	Item 1 Hazardous wastes: Ignitable, corrosive, reactive, toxic and leachable substances;
	Item 2 Hazardous wastes from non-specific sources;
	Item 3 Hazardous wastes: discarded commercial chemical products, off-specification 
species, container residues, and spill residues (acute hazardous and toxic hazardous chemicals);
 and Item 4 Hazardous wastes: chemical wastes.

According to the Notification of the Ministry of Industry No.1 B.E. 2541 (1998) issued 
pursuant to the provisions in the Factory Act B.E. 2535 (1992) on Disposal of Wastes or 
Unusable Materials, the categories of industrial wastes were defined and listed in 2 sections as 
follows:

	Section 1 Industrial Non-Hazardous Wastes; and
Section 2 Wastes and Unusable Materials from Specific Industrial Processes.

Thailand has just defined the used of electrical and electronic equipments and their parts and 
components as hazardous substances type 3 to be controlled for the import in to the Kingdom 
of Thailand in accordance with the"Notification of Ministry of Industry on List of hazardous 
substances" B.E. 2546 (2003) issued pursuant to the Hazardous Substance Act B.E. 2535 
(1992). In case of import of such equipments, the importer/consignee/factory shall follow 
procedures under the Notification of the Department of Industrial Works on the Criteria for the 
approval of the import of used electrical and electronic equipments into the Kingdom of  Thailand, issued on 26 September B.E. 2546 (2003).
Uzbekistan
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Viet Nam
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.

UN Region:	 Western Europe and Others
Andorra
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.

Andorra does not possess yet a detailed regulation regarding hazardous wastes, whether those 
are included in the Basel Regime or not. Nonetheless, in coordination with the International 
Atomic Energy Agency and European authorities that control thoroughly the movements of 
nuclear substances, Andorra has a practical system of control of imports and exports of 
nuclear substances. There is also a system of registration and control, for the purposes of 
commerce, of the quantities of chemical products that enter and leave the country.
Australia
2002	Australia regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 
	1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Aluminium ashes and residues.
1. This listing includes wastes in the form of ash, residue, slag, dross, skimming, scaling dust,
    sludge and cake unless a material is expressly listed elsewhere.
2. Regulated only when moved from one OECD country to another OECD country in 
	  accordance with OECD Council Decision C92 (39) FINAL.
Austria
2002	Austria regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1
	 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Any waste not listed in Annex II of the EU Regulation 259/93/EC is subject to a control 
procedure in case of transboundary movements destined for recycling (the text of Regulation 
259/93/EC is available via Internet: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/1993/en_393R0259. 
html). 

Any waste is subject to a control procedure in case of transboundary movements destined for final disposal.
Belgium
2002	Belgium regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 
	1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

In Belgium the provisions of the European Council Regulation 259/93/EEC apply, especially 
referring to its Annexes II, III, IV and V. Annexes III and IV (Amber and Red List) regulate 
also some wastes not included in art. 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention. There is also a list which 
specifies the wastes which are not controlled (Annex II = Green List).  All wastes not included 
in the Annexes are controlled. All wastes destined for final disposal are also controlled.

Canada	
2002	Canada regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1
	 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Canada controls all of Annex I and Annex II wastes when they exhibit a hazard characteristic. 
Canada also controls wastes, even if not included in Annex I, as long as it exhibits a hazardous 
characteristic. For example: 

Waste streams: Industrial waste streams are complex wastes that come from certain specific 
industrial processes. 100 such waste streams are listed in the Transportation of Dangerous 
Goods Regulations (TDGR) and are controlled. Further, all wastes listed and controlled under 
the OECD decisions are included in the Canadian regulatory regime of the Export and Import of
 Hazardous Wastes Regulations (EIHWR). Some of these could serve as examples of wastes 
which would not always be covered by Annex I.

 Waste having as constituents: Canada uses a leachate procedure to characterize H13 wastes. 
Concentrations of contaminants listed in the Canadian Drinking Water Quality Guidelines are 
assessed during the procedure. Some of these contaminants, for example, boron and barium, 
are not found on Annex I.  The more than 3000 listed wastes by Canadian regulations include a 
few hundred substances identified as being hazardous to the environment. A number of these 
substances, when wastes, do not have a corresponding Annex I or II entry.
Denmark
2002	Denmark regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art.
	 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

In Annex V in Commission Decision of 24 November 1999, Denmark – as the rest of EU- has 
listed hazardous waste which are subject to decision II/12 of the Convention.
Finland
2002	Finland regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1
	 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Wastes that are considered to be hazardous are listed in the Ministry of the Environment Decree
 on the List of the Most Common Wastes and of Hazardous Wastes (1129/2001). However, 
due to structural differences between the hazardous waste list and Annex I of the Basel 
Convention it is not possible to specify in detail which of these wastes are additional to Annex 
I. These additional wastes may contain, for example, the following constituents which 
potentially render wastes hazardous: certain metal compounds (like cobalt, nickel, silver, 
vanadium, tin), certain alkaline or alkaline earth metals (lithium, potassium, calcium, magnesium
 in uncombined form), aromatic compounds, polycyclic and heterocyclic organic compounds, 
inorganic sulphides, peroxides, chlorates, perchlorate, creosotes, isocyanates or thiocyanates.
France
2002	France regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1 
	(1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of transboundary
	 movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

These wastes are those included in lists amber and red, and unlisted waste of the EC regulation 
259/93.

Germany
2002	Germany regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art.
	 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

In Germany the provisions of the EC Waste Movement Regulation apply, especially referring to
 Annexes II, III, IV and V. Wastes subject to control for transboundary movements are listed 
in Annexes III and IV. Wastes not subject to control, if the waste is destined for recovery, are 
listed in Annex II. Non-listed wastes are controlled pursuant to Article 10 of this Regulation. 
Not all controlled wastes are hazardous. There are also some wastes considered as hazardous 
which are not included in Art. 1(1a) of the Basel Convention. The wastes for which the export 
prohibition applies are listed in Annex V, which contains all wastes listed in Annexes VIII and 
IX of the Basel Convention and additional wastes.
Iceland
2002	Iceland regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1
	 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

National legislation, cf. regulation no. 184/2002, is in accordance with Commission Decisions 
2001/118/EC, 2001/119/EC and Council Decision 2001/573/EC.
Israel
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Italy
2002	Italy regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1 
	(1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of transboundary
	 movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

These wastes include all the wastes that are listed in the EEC/259/93 Annexes III and IV.
Luxembourg
2002	Luxembourg regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in 
	Art. 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

All the wastes subject to control under the regulation (EEC) 259/93 are controlled.
Monaco
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Netherlands
2002	Netherlands regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in 
	Art. 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Lists of amber and red wastes (OECD-decision); and hazardous wastes on the European 
Hazardous Waste List.

New Zealand
2002	New Zealand regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in 
	Art. 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

The Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (HSNO) Act 1996, came into force on 2 July 
2001.  This covers imports of all materials defined as hazardous substances including those 
classed as wastes if (i) they exceed a specific threshold in one or more of particular categories 
of flammability, explosiveness, capacity to oxidise, corrosiveness, toxicity or eco-toxicity and 
(ii) have not previously been transferred to, or approved under, the legislation.  Therefore in 
some circumstances a material subject to an import notification under Basel/OECD procedures 
may also require approval under HSNO.  In circumstances where a material has previously 
been transferred or approved under HSNO no additional HSNO approval will be required but 
specific control conditions (e.g. relating to disposal, transport or tracking etc) may apply.  
However, some materials defined as hazardous wastes under Basel/OECD definitions will not 
be defined as substances under the HSNO (e.g. products such as lead acid batteries etc).  The 
Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) is charged with implementing the HSNO 
legislation and the New Zealand Competent Authority for Basel/OECD procedures will liaise 
with ERMA on hazardous waste import issues.
Norway
2002	Norway regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 
	1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Norway has implemented EU regulation 259/93 with the attached waste lists in EU regulation 
2408/98 which i.e. contains the Basel Convention’s annex VIII and IX (A and B lists).
Spain
2002	Spain regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1 
	(1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of transboundary
	 movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

The transboundary movement of wastes in Spain, is governed by Council regulation (EEC) No. 
259/93 on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the 
European Community, amended by Council regulations (EEC) No. 120/97, (EEC) No. 2408/98 
and (EC) No. 2557/2001, as well as decision 1999/816/EEC. Provisions in the body of the text 
of these regulations and in its annexes II, III, IV and V, define those wastes on which the 
control applies. Since there is no definition of hazardous wastes in that regulation, it is not 
possible to list those hazardous wastes which, even though not included under article 1 (1) of 
the Basel Convention, will be subject to the control of shipments. It has to be determined in 
each case whether the waste is listed under annexes V, II, III or IV (in that order) of the 
regulation. For instance, it can be identified: Sludge from the treatment of sewage.
Sweden
2002	Sweden regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 
	1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

There are some wastes that are not covered by the Basel Convention but are covered in EU 
Regulation 259/93. There is also a rule saying that wastes that are not listed in 259/93 should be
 controlled.

Switzerland
2002	Switzerland regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in 
	Art. 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Remark : The following general table lists special wastes which are not explicitely listed in 
Annex 1 of the Basel Convention, or difficult to be assigned to a Y-Code or an H-Code or to 
both:

OMSW- Code	          Waste description
(National Code)

1740 	Soaps, fats, lubricating oils or films of vegetable or animal origin
1741	Wastes which contain edible fat or oil, wastes from grease traps oil separators
1821 	Residues (insulating strips) from the recycling of cables
2010 	Blast furnace slag, without fly ash
2020 	Dut, particles and fly ash
2021 	Filter cake which contains non-ferrous metals from flue gas treatment
2022 	Sludge which contains non-ferrous metals from waste gas scrubbing
2030 	Fibre-glass wastes, clinker; fire-proof waste brick
2033 	Light metal dross which contain aluminium or magnesium
2040 	Casting cours and moulds which contain organic binders prior to introduction of
         	molten metal   
2250 	Production refuse, processing waste and manufacturing by-products originating  
         	from organic syntheses (not elsewhere liste d) 
2430 	Contaminated lime sludges
2440 	Contaminated calcium sulphate residues( e.g. phosphgypsum, gypsums originating
       	 from fume desulphurisation)
2450    Other neutralization sludges
2460    Other saline solutions
2620  	Solid metal salt residues, except alkaline salts
2640  	Solid residues of inorganic non-cyanidic salts
2650  	Spent catalysts from chemical processes
2660  	Sulphur residus
2830  	Sewage sludge having a heavy metal concentration exceeding by more than 
           100% the limit 	set by the Swiss Ordinance concerning sewage sludge
2840  	Settling , filtration and centrifuging residus
2850  	Saturated, spent ion exchange resins except those used for drinking water 
           	treatment
2860  	Eluates and regeneration sludges from ion exchanger resins not covererd under 
          	other OMSW-	codes
2871  	Other acid tas     
2880  	Gas scrubber sludgs
2890  	Decarbonization sludges
3010  	Drilling muds
3020   	Absorbents and adsorbents contaminated in particular with organis products, e.g. 
          	filters and filtering media
3030  	Absorbents and adsorbents contaminated only with inorganic products, e.g. filters 
          	and filtering media
3040  	Contaminated materials and equipment
3041	Soil contaminated by mineral oil products
3042	Soil contaminated by other substances
3050  	Contaminated packages and containers which have contained special wastes 
            unless they are used again for the transport of wastes of the same nature
3051    Packages and containers, contaminated but empty, which have contained toxic materials of  		class 1 or 2 toxicity
3210   	Manufacturing refuse and wastes not covered by one of the previous items
3220   	Used batteries
3250   	Residues not covered by one of the preceding items
3260   	Wastes (e.g. laboratory chemicals) not classifiable elsewhere because of their   
            nature
3261  	Rests/residues of chemicals whose qualitative composition is known
3262  	Rests/residues of chemicals whose qualitative composition is unknown
9100  	Sludges from cleaning or flushing of refuse dumps
Turkey
2002	Turkey is in a preparatory process to regulate/control wastes defined as, or considered
	 to be hazardous wastes by national legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of 
	the Basel Convention. 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2002	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland regulates/controls additional 
	wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and 
	would be controlled for the purpose of transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Wastes listed in Annexes III and IV of the WSR that are destined for recovery operations are 
controlled as hazardous and highly hazardous wastes respectively, for the purpose of 
transboundary movements.  A number of the wastes listed in these Annexes are not included 
within the scope of Article 1(1)a of the Basel Convention.
UN Region:	Central and Eastern Europe
Albania
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Armenia
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Belarus
2002	Belarus regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1
	 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Appendix 1 to the Resolution of State Custom Committee "On Improvement of Custom Control
 over Waste Movement through Custom Border of the Republic of Belarus" (of 12.03.1999 N 
134-OD) provides a "List of Industrial and Consumption Wastes, which can not be processed 
or used in the Republic of Belarus"; Appendix  2 to the Resolution of State Custom Committee 
"On Improvement of Custom Control over Waste Movement through Custom Border of the 
Republic of Belarus" (of 12.03.1999 N 134-OD) provides a "List of Industrial and Consumption
 Wastes, which can be processed or used in the Republic of Belarus, permits for their import 
(transit) are given by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection." 
(For Appendices 1 and 2 refer to the latest Country  fact sheet of Belarus available at www.base.int)
Bosnia & Herzegovina
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.

Bulgaria
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Croatia
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Estonia
2002	Estonia regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1
	 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Estonia has transposed waste classification according European directive 2000/523/EC.
Georgia
2002	Georgia regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 
	1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 
Hungary
2002	Hungary regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 
	1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

The Ministerial Decree No. 16/2001 (VII.18.) extended the EWC 02 02 codes group as 
hazardous waste, namely the wastes from the preparation and processing of meat, fish and 
other foods animal origin, and the EWC 18 01 and the EWC 18 02 codes qualified as hazardous
 waste origin from the waste of natal care, diagnosis, treatment or prevention of disease in 
humans, as well as the waste from research, diagnosis, treatment or prevention of disease 
involving animals.

Over the above-mentioned wastes the EWC* hazardous waste list contain 107 waste codes 
which are not compatible with Y codes of Basel Convention.  As mentioned under question 2b 
of the Questionnaire on “Transmission of Information”, hazardous waste definition was 
completed by adaptation of European Waste Catalog specification with a marking that EWC is 
more or less different as former Hungarian Hazardous Waste list. These conditions need to be 
taken into account while consulting at the PART II. Section A, Table 6 and Table 8A and Table 8B.

Latvia
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Lithuania
2002	Lithuania regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art.
	 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

The imports of specific Green - listed waste (see 2d), as well as for Amber and Red-listed 
wastes must be notified and are only possible with the consent of all countries concerned 
(export, transit and import countries). Some of these wastes are not considered in Lithuania as 
an "article 1 (1) b hazardous waste", for example Green – listed waste.

Poland
2002	Poland regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1 
	(1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of transboundary
	 movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

National list of hazardous waste is defined in the ordinance of the Minister of Environment on 
the waste catalogue (O.J. of 2001, No. 112, Item 1206). Wastes are divided into 20 groups, 
depending on source of generation. National list of hazardous waste is similar to Basel 
Convention Annexes I and II list of waste, but it is not identical.
Republic of Moldova
2002	Republic of Moldova regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not 
	included in Art. 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose
	 of transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 
Romania
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Russian Federation
2002	Russian Federation regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not 
	included in Art. 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose
	 of transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

These wastes are listed in the Appendix no. 1 to the Resolution of Russian Federation 
Government "On State Regulation and Control over Transboundary Movements of Hazardous 
wastes" (of 01.07.1996 No. 766) which provides a "List of Hazardous Wastes, Import 
(Transit) of which to (through) the Territory of the Russian Federation is forbidden and Export
 is subject to State Regulation"; and in the Appendix no. 2 to the Resolution of Russian 
Federation Government "On State Regulation and Control over Transboundary Movements of 
Hazardous Wastes" (of 01.07.1996 No. 766) which provides a "List of Hazardous Wastes, 
Transboundary Movements of which is subject to State Regulation." (The appendixes are 
available in the Country Fact Sheet (Russian Federation) prepared by the Secretariat.)
Serbia and Montenegro
2002	Serbia and Montenegro regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not 
	included in Art. 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose
	 of transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 
1. National waste code: W59-2-00000-Y45 - Used equipments and goods (including 
refrigerators, packaging material, barrels, containers and transport vehicles) which contain, or 
include or contaminated with chlorofluorocarbons (refrigerate fluids, isolation, etc); 
2. National waste code: W59-3-00000-000 - Used fluorescent tubes, lamps and similar; 
3. National waste code: W62-2-00000-Y45 - Used equipments and goods (including fire fighter 
instruments and appliances, packaging materials, barrels, containers and transport vehicles) 
which contain, or include or contaminated with halons; 
4. National waste code: W92-1-00000-000 - Every single contingent which contain medicines, 
chemicals, pharmaceutics and similar, and different products, with expired date for usage for 
declared purpose; 
5. National waste code: W92-2-00000-000 - Used goods importing in the big quantities, which 
will be the problem for the environmentally sound management in country when become the 
waste after the declared usage due date (used tires and similar); 
6. National waste code: W92-3-00000-000 - Used and old equipments, units and materials for 
waste treatment and waste final disposal, as well as their parts and residual materials from 
treatment; and 
7. National waste code: W92-4-00000-000 - Mixtures of wastes and mixed different waste 
streams with not in details defined properties; and
8. National waste code: W92-5-00000-000 - Wastes with radioactive characteristics, only in 
case if there are not covered with different existing set of regulations for radioactive wastes.
Slovakia
2002	Slovakia regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 
	1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

A Decree No. 234/2001 Coll. of Laws on waste classification to the Green Waste List, the 
Amber Waste List and the Red Waste List and on document specimens required for the 
shipment of waste entered into force since 1 July, 2001. According to this Decree,  94 items of
 the OECD Green list of Wastes are listed on national Amber list and are controlled. The 
following groups are listed on the national Amber list: GB – metal bearing wastes arising from 
melting, smelting and refining of metals (all items, except GB 010); GC – other wastes 
containing metals (all items, except GC 080; the metals and metal alloy wastes in metallic 
dispersible form (GC090 – GC170) are not covered by this Decree); GD – wastes from mining
 operations: these wastes to be in non-dispersible form (all items); GE – glass wastes in 
non-dispersible form (only item GE 020-SRA is on Amber list); GF – ceramic wastes in 
non-dispersible form (all items); GG – other wastes containing principally inorganic 
constituents, which may contain metals and organic materials (all items; GG 160 is not covered
 by national Decree); GH – solid plastic wastes (all items); GI – paper, paperboard and paper 
product wastes (only item GI 014-SRA is on Amber list); GJ – textile wastes (according to the 
Decree No. 410/2002 Coll. of Laws, which amended Decree No. 234/2001 Coll. of Laws only 
item GJ120-SRA is listed on national Amber list; GJ 140 is not covered by national Decrees); 
GK – rubber wastes (all items); GL – untreated cork and wood wastes (all items); GM – 
wastes arising from agro-food industries (all items; GM 140 is not covered by national 
Decrees); GN – wastes arising from tanning and fellmongery operations and leather use (all 
items); GO – other wastes containing principally organic constituents, which may contain 
metals and inorganic materials (all items). The Decree No. 410/2002 Coll. of Laws entered into 
force in August 1, 2002. 

For the purpose to harmonize national legislation with EU regulations some changes were made 
in national waste classification, i.e. some waste items were transferred from national Amber 
List to the Green List. Since July 1, 2003 a Decree No. 227/2003 Coll. of Laws has amended 
Decree No. 234/2001 Coll. of Laws and Decree No. 410/2002 Coll. of Laws. The following 
OECD waste codes – Green list – are not covered by national Decree: waste and scrap of 
precious metals and their alloys: GA010 – of gold; GA020 – of platinum (this expression 
includes platinum, iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium and ruthenium); GA030 – of others 
precious metals, e.g. silver; metals and metal alloy wastes in metallic dispersible form: GC090 –
 molybdenum; GC100 – tungsten; GC110 – tantalum; GC120 – titanium; GC130 – niobium; 
GC140 – rhenium; GC150 – gold; GC160 – platinum (this expression includes platinum, 
iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium and ruthenium); GC170 – other precious metals, e.g. 
silver; GG160 – bituminous materials (asphalt waste) from road construction and maintenance, 
not containing tar; GJ140 – waste textile floor coverings, carpets; GM140 – waste edible fats 
and oils of animal or vegetable origin (e.g. frying oils). The national Amber List and Red List  
are identical with the OECD Amber List and Red List. Regardless of whether or not wastes are 
included on the Green List (Amber List) they may not be moved as green wastes (amber 
wastes) if there are contaminated by other materials to an extent which (a) increases the risks 
associated with the waste sufficiently to render it appropriate for inclusion in the Amber or Red
 Lists (Red List), or (b) prevents the recovery of the waste in an environmentally sound manner.

Slovenia
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.

Ukraine
2002	Ukraine regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1
	 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b:

	60 Petrol sludge containing lead;
	79 Residues from operation on the industrial wastes disposal; and
	80 Wastes from production, receiving and use of photo-chemicals or materials for treatment 
of photochemicals.

According to the national legislation of Ukraine Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine 
No. 1120 from July, 13, 2000  "On the approval of Regulations about the control for 
transboundary movements of hazardous waste and their recycling / removal and the Yellow and
 Green list of waste " in the Basis of the unit A the list A of Basel convention (the annex VIII to 
Basel convention) is put. In accordance with the subitem "a" item 1 of Article 1 of the Basel 
convention the waste listed in this section are hazardous. In addition to it three positions (serial 
numbers 60 - Gasoline sludge which contains lead Y31, AC040; 79 - the Remnants from 
operations on removal of industrial wastes Y18; 80 - Waste products of manufacture, reception
 and application of photochemicals or materials for processing photographic materials Y16, 
AD090 are included. According to the list A, 43 - Waste products which contain, consist or are
 polluted with sludge of antidetonation compounds with addition of lead A3030, RC030.
UN Region:	 Latin America and the Caribbean
Antigua and Barbuda
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Argentina
2002	Argentina regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art.
	 1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Any waste possessing any of the characteristics contained in Annex III to the Basel Convention.
Barbados
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.

Brazil
2002	Brazil regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1 
	(1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of transboundary
	 movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 

Brazil prohibits the importation of used tires in Annex 10-C (Inert Wastes - Class III - 
Importation Prohibited) of the CONAMA Resolution no 235 and also prohibits the importation 
of wastes for final disposal or incineration (CONAMA Resolution no 08 from September 19, 1991).
Chile
2002	Chile is in a preparatory process to regulate/control wastes defined as, or considered to
	 be hazardous wastes by national legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the
	 Basel Convention. 

Hazardous wastes that are not covered by the Basel Convention are being considered for 
inclusion in the above-mentioned regulation.
Costa Rica
2002	Costa Rica is in a preparatory process to regulate/control wastes defined as, or 
	considered to be hazardous wastes by national legislation in accordance with Art. 1, 
	para 1(b) of the Basel Convention. 
Cuba
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Dominican Republic
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Ecuador
2002	Ecuador regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 
	1 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 
Honduras
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Mexico
2002	Mexico regulates/controls additional wastes as hazardous that are not included in Art. 1
	 (1)a of the Basel Convention and would be controlled for the purpose of 
	transboundary movements pursuant to Art. 1 (1)b. 
Mexico regulates the import and export of the wastes defined as dangerous by the Mexican 
regulation and they are listed in the Mexican official regulation NOM-052-ECOL-93, as well as 
those that are dangerous after the application of the analysis CRETIB (Test for corrosiveness, 
reactivity, explosiveness, toxicity, inflammability and biological infectious) whose parameters 
and limits are described in the same 
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Panama
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.

Peru
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.
Saint Lucia
2002	There are no wastes defined as, or considered to be hazardous wastes by national 
	legislation in accordance with Art. 1, para 1(b) of the Basel Convention.