Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, at the Eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, with regard to amendments to the list of waste contained in Annex IX (List B) of this Convention

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, done on 22 March 1989 (the "Basel Convention"), establishes a control procedure for the export and import of hazardous wastes between Parties. The Convention entered into force in 1992 and now binds 175 Parties. The EU is a Party to the Basel Convention.

The procedure for amending annexes of the Basel Convention is governed by Articles 17 and 18 of the Convention. Any proposed amendment must be made by a Party and communicated by the Secretariat to all Parties at least six months before the meeting at which it is proposed for adoption. Any such amendment must be adopted at a meeting of the Conference of the Parties and may become effective six months from the date of issuance of a circular notification by the Depositary.

The following five applications for new entries in Annex IX (List B) to the Basel Convention were submitted in January and February 2011:
(a) Non-separable plastic fraction from the pre-treatment of used liquid packages;
(b) Pressure sensitive adhesive label laminate waste containing raw materials used in label material production not covered by entry B3020 in Annex IX;
(c) Non-separable plastic-aluminium fraction from the pre-treatment of used liquid packages;
(d) Clean biodegradable waste from agriculture, horticulture, forestry, gardens, parks and cemeteries;
(e) Composite packaging consisting of mainly paper and some plastic, not containing residues and not covered by entry B3020 in Annex IX.

The above waste entries were added to Annex IIIB of Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 on shipments of waste, on a provisional basis pending a decision on their inclusion in Annex IX (List B) to the Basel Convention. This decision was adopted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 135/2012 amending Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 to include certain unclassified wastes in Annex IIIB thereto.

EUR-Lex: COM(2013)93: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2013:093:FIN

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