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Model National Legislation on the
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of Hazardous Wastes and Other Wastes and Their Disposal
Part I Scope, Purpose, and Objectives of this Law
a fa Basel convention.
1.
The scope of this Law is to regulate the generation, exportation,
importation, transboundary movement and disposal of hazardous wastes and other
wastes as defined in this Law as well as setting up rules for the control and
combatting of illegal traffic.
2.
The purpose and objectives of this Law are as follows:
a) ensure that the generation of hazardous wastes and other wastes,
within the State, is reduced to a minimum;
b)
ensure the availability of adequate disposal facilities for the
environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes and other wastes
generated in the State;
c) ensure that the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and
other wastes, when permissible or authorized, is reduced to the
minimum, consistent with environmentally sound and effective management
of such wastes and, is conducted in a manner which will protect human
health and the environment against adverse effects which may result
from such movements;
d) ensure that any transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and
other wastes will take place only after fulfilling the criteria and
conditions set out in this Law.
Part II Definitions
1.
"Wastes" are substances or objects which are disposed off or, are intended to be disposed off or, are required to be disposed off, and which belong to any category contained in the annex to this Law. (It is left to
governments to take, as a minimum, the lists of the Basel Convention).