Waste Crime - Waste Risks: Gaps in Meeting the Global Waste Challenge

of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to all non-OECD countries. As of March 2015, the Ban amendment is not yet in force. Some Parties and regions, however, have already incorporated the Ban amendment in their national or regional legislation. The European Union Regulation on Shipments of Waste is a regional example of a legislative framework (EC 2006). 1 The predominant objective of the Regulation is the “protec-

In cases of illegal trafficking as a result of misconduct on the part of the exporter or generator, the State of export shall ensure that the waste is taken back by the exporter or the generator, or, if impracticable, disposed of in an environmen- tally sound manner. The Secretariat of the Basel Convention is mandated to assist Parties upon request in their identifica- tion of cases of illegal traffic. An important tool in the Basel Convention in terms of moni- toring and enforcement work is the Basel Ban. This amend- ment, originally a decision effectively banned as of 1 January 1998, all forms of hazardous waste exports from the wealth- iest and most industrialized countries of the Organization

1. Eur-Lex Access to European law (2014). Shipments of Waste. [Online]. 10/04/2014. Available from: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ TXT/?qid=1426682493716&uri=URISERV:l11022

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