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