(7)This Regulation also implements at Union level an amendment to the Basel Convention 7 (the Ban Amendment) which was adopted in 1995 and entered into force at the international level on 5 December 2019. The Ban Amendment establishes a general prohibition on all exports of hazardous wastes that are destined for disposal and recovery operations from countries listed in Annex VII to the Basel Convention to countries not listed in that Annex. The Union has ratified the Ban Amendment and implemented it since 1997 8 .
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- 7 Amendment to the Basel Convention (‘Ban Amendment’) adopted by Decision III/1 of the Parties to the Basel Convention. ↩
- 8 Council Decision 97/640/EC of 22 September 1997 on the approval, on behalf of the Community, of the amendment to the Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal (Basel Convention), as laid down in Decision III/1 of the Conference of the Parties ( OJ L 272, 4.10.1997, p. 45 ) and Council Regulation (EC) No 120/97 of 20 January 1997 amending Regulation (EEC) No 259/93 on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Community ( OJ L 22, 24.1.1997, p. 14 ). ↩