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Ahmedabad: Vessel containing ‘hazardous substances’ intercepted, brought to Mundra Port

·         The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal first came into force in 1992.

·         The Convention puts an onus on exportation countries to make sure that hazardous wastes are managed in an environmentally sound manner within the country of import.

·         The basel Convention places obligations on countries that ar party to the Convention. 151 Countries have ratified the Basel Convention as at december 2002.

·         These obligations ar to: Minimise generation of hazardous waste; guarantee adequate disposal facilities are available; management and reduce international movements of hazardous waste; guarantee environmentally sound management of wastes; and prevent and punish illegal  traffic.

·         It particularly focuses on preventing transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries.

·         It provides for cooperation between the parties, as well as exchange of data on problems relevant to the implementation of the Convention.

·         It applies prior Consent Approval procedure to manage the transboundary movement of the hazardous and different wastes.

·         Non-parties cannot transport hazardous waste to and from each other unless specially agreed.

·         Basel Convention states such transportation, illegal.

·         The member nations to the convention are required to have domestic legislation for both prevention and the punishment of the illegal trafficking of such hazardous wastes.

·         Conference of Parties (COP) may be a primary organ of the Basel Convention and is accountable to form choices regarding the operations of the convention.

·         It meets biennially. India could be a member of the Basle Convention.

·         It ratified the convention in June 1992 and brought it into force on twenty second Sept 1992.

·         The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MOEF&CC) introduced Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules of 2016.

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