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Basel Convention

Examples

Annex I Hazardous wastes requiring prior informed consent (Y codes)

Clinical wastes, waste mineral oils, or residues arising from industrial waste operations

Annex II Other wastes requiring prior informed consent (Y codes)

Wastes collected from households

Annex III List of hazardous characteristics

Explosive, corrosive, or toxic

Annex VIII (List A) List of hazardous wastes covered by the Convention (A codes) unless the use of Annex III demonstrates that a waste is not hazardous Annex IX (List B) List of wastes not covered by the Convention (B codes), unless they contain Annex I material to an extent causing them to exhibit an Annex III characteristic

Waste lead-acid batteries, glass from cathode ray tubes, or fluff-light fraction from shredding

Waste end-of-life motor vehicles containing neither liquids nor other hazardous components, paper wastes, or textile wastes.

OECD decision are generally considered non-hazardous (also referred to as green-listed waste) and do not require any prior informed consent or notification before the shipment takes place. However, wastes included in Annex IV exhibit hazardous characteristics, and a notification or approval from the destina- tion country is needed to proceed with the export. These waste streams are referred to as amber-listed waste. For example, the vast majority of notified waste shipments are destined for EU member countries or one of the EFTA countries (i.e., Iceland,

that this determines whether the Basel Convention’s regula- tory regime applies to its export, transit, and import.

The OECD Decision on Control of Transboundary Movements of Wastes Destined for Recovery Operations C (2001)107/ FINAL (OECD 2015) introduces the so-called green-listed and amber-listed waste. This system has been adopted in the European Union legislation on shipments of waste (Euro- pean Commisssion 2015). Wastes included in Annex III of the

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