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⇒ To encourage treatment and disposal of hazardous wastes as close as
possible to their source of generation in an environmentally sound
management; and
⇒ To ensure movement of hazardous wastes and their disposal are
carried out in an environmentally sound manner.
The Convention represents the intention of the international community to
solve this global environmental problem in a collective manner.
8.2 Substantive Provisions
Article 2 - Scope of the Convention
The Convention is confined to hazardous wastes as listed in Annex 1 of
the Convention or considered to be hazardous by the domestic legislation
of Contracting Parties for human health and environmental reasons.
Annex III of the Convention provides the hazardous characteristics of such
wastes. Radioactive wastes are also covered by this Convention. Wastes
from ship discharges, which is covered by other Conventions is not
covered by this Convention.
Article 4 - General Obligations
Parties are required to take appropriate legal, administrative and other
measures within the area under jurisdiction to prohibit the import of all
hazardous wastes, for any reason into Africa from non-contracting Parties.
Such imports are deemed illegal and a criminal act.
It also requires that all Parties in conformity with related International
Conventions and Instruments to adopt legal, administrative and other
appropriate measures to control all carriers from non-Parties, and prohibit
the dumping at sea of hazardous wastes, including their incineration at
sea and their disposal in the seabed and sub-seabed.
Waste Generation in Africa
Each Party is obliged among others: - to submit to the Secretariat reports
regarding the wastes they generate, ensure minimum generation of
hazardous wastes, ensure availability of adequate treatment and/or
disposal facilities for environmentally sound management of hazardous
wastes, adoption of precautionary measures to pollution problems
including adoption of cleaner technologies, and control of transfer of
polluting technologies to Africa.
Moreover Parties are required to prohibit export to states which have
banned by their national legislation or international agreement all such
imports or to a State that does not have the facilities for disposing them in
an environmentally sound manner.
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