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International Management of Hazardous Wastes: The Basel Convention and Related Legal Rules

Katharina Kummer

Abstract

Uncontrolled transboundary transfer of hazardous wastes was recognized as a major environmental problem in the mid-1980s. The international community responded by elaborating pertinent international agreements. Treaties are now in place at the global and regional levels, and additional ones are being negotiated. Despite their common aim of protecting the environment against the ill-effects of hazardous wastes, they often differ in stringency as well as scope and membership. This book analyses the key treaties and other international legal rules on the control of transboundary movements of haza ... More

Keywords: hazardous wastes, international agreements, treaties, environment, legal rules, regulatory system

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2000 Print ISBN-13: 9780198259947
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198259947.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Katharina Kummer, Author
Swiss Federal Office of Environment, Forest, and Landscape

Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Editor's Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Foreword

Table of Cases

Table of Legal Instruments of the EU and the OECD

Table of Treaties and other International Legal Instruments

Introduction

1 Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes in International Law

2 The Basel Convention: an Analysis and Assessment

3 The Basel Convention as an Umbrella for Regional Hazardous Waste Treaties

4 The Relationship Between the Basel Convention and the Waste Management Systems of the EU and the OECD

5 The Basel Convention Regime and Sectoral Pollution Control Treaties

6 Ensuring Compliance: Relevant Concepts and Mechanisms

7 The Contribution of the Basel Convention and Related Rules to an Emerging Global Waste Management System

End Matter

Appendix I Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (22 March 1989).

Appendix II Decision II/12 of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention, (2nd Meeting, 25 March 1994).

Appendix III Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes Within Africa (30 January 1991).

Appendix IV Lomé IV Convention (15 December 1989), Article 39 and Annexes VIII–X

Appendix V Agreement Between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America Concerning the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste (28 October 1986, as amended).

Appendix VI Agreement of Co-operation Between the United States of America and the United Mexican States Regarding the Transboundary Shipments of Hazardous Wastes and Hazardous Substances (12 November 1986)

Appendix VII

Appendix VIII OECD Council Decision Concerning the Control of Transfrontier Movements of Wastes Destined for Recovery Operations (C(92)39, 30 March 1992)

Appendix IX London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (29 December 1972, as amended)

Bibliography

Index