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Basel Regulatory Radar
Track COP decisions, Ban Amendment updates, and listing changes that affect cross-border hazardous waste operations. Updated as events occur.
COP17 Adopts Strategic Framework for 2025–2031
At its seventeenth meeting, the Conference of the Parties adopted the renewed strategic framework for the implementation of the Basel Convention for 2025-2031. Operators should treat it as the current policy frame for Basel implementation, enforcement capacity, and national reporting work.
COP17 Requests Further Information on Plastic Waste Amendments
COP17 adopted decision BC-17/11 on further consideration of plastic waste and invited Parties and others to provide information and comments on the Basel plastic waste amendments, including their implementation, challenges, and impacts.
COP17 Adopts Compliance Committee Work Programme for 2026–2027
Decision BC-17/14 adopted the 2026-2027 work programme of the Committee Administering the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance, including work on national reporting and country-contact obligations.
EU Waste Shipment Regulation 2024/1157 Enters into Force
Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 entered into force on 20 May 2024. Most provisions apply from 21 May 2026, with most export rules applying from 21 May 2027; exporters should plan for stricter non-EU shipment controls, digital procedures, and facility-audit obligations.
COP17 Takes Up Updated E-Waste Technical Guidelines
COP17 adopted decision BC-17/4 on technical guidelines for transboundary movements of electrical and electronic waste and used electrical and electronic equipment, including the waste/non-waste distinction under the Basel Convention.
COP17 Advances Waste Lead-Acid Battery Technical Guidelines
COP17 adopted decision BC-17/5 on technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of waste lead-acid batteries and other waste batteries, continuing work led by China, Uruguay, and the European Union.
Basel Ban Amendment Enters into Force
The Ban Amendment entered into force on 5 December 2019. It prohibits Parties listed in Annex VII from exporting hazardous wastes covered by the Convention to States not listed in Annex VII for final disposal or recovery.
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