Tanzania Multi Stakeholder Map - WebNG
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Article 3- National Definition of Hazardous Wastes<br />
Parties are required to inform the Secretariat of the Convention of the<br />
wastes, other than those listed in Annexes I and II considered or defined<br />
as hazardous under their national legislations. Also requirements for<br />
transboundary movements of such wastes have to be communicated to<br />
the Secretariat.<br />
Article 4- General Obligations<br />
(i) Minimise Generation<br />
Parties must ensure the generation of hazardous waste is reduced<br />
to a minimum level.<br />
(ii) Self-sufficiency<br />
Parties have a legal obligation to ensure the availability of adequate<br />
disposal facilities (defined as including recycling) for the sound<br />
management of hazardous wastes. These shall be located, to the<br />
extent possible, within own territories.<br />
(iii)<br />
(iv)<br />
Minimise Transboundary Movement<br />
Parties must ensure that the transboundary movement of<br />
hazardous wastes and other wastes is reduced to a minimum,<br />
consistent with the environmentally sound management to protect<br />
human health and the environment against the adverse effects,<br />
which may result from such a movement.<br />
Sovereign right to ban imports of hazardous wastes or other<br />
wastes<br />
The Convention recognises the sovereign right of every state to<br />
ban import of hazardous wastes or other wastes for disposal. It<br />
prohibits exports to Parties that have prohibited imports.<br />
It also prohibits export if there is no consent in writing from the<br />
State of import regarding the specified import, in the case where<br />
that State of import has not prohibited the import of such wastes.<br />
The Parties also must prohibit exports of hazardous wastes to a<br />
State or group of States belonging to an economic and/or political<br />
integration organisation, particularly developing countries, that have<br />
prohibited by their legislation all imports, or if it has reason to<br />
believe that the wastes in question will not be managed in an<br />
environmentally sound manner.<br />
(v)<br />
No distinction between disposal and recycling<br />
The Convention recognizes that hazardous wastes destined for<br />
recycling operation also carries with it actual and potential<br />
environmental damage, either in the form of emissions and<br />
discharges, and on residual hazardous wastes which ultimately<br />
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