This section contains information relating to national legislation and other regulatory measures adopted by Parties and is intended to assist Parties and others to implement the provisions of the Basel Convention.

This section contains information transmitted by Parties pursuant to articles 3 (national definitions) and 4.1 (import restriction) of the Basel Convention.

• Illegal Traffic under the Basel Convention
• The Secretariat is calling for applications for a consultant to assist the Basel and Stockholm conventions secretariats develop a World Customs Organization joint e-learning tool for customs officers. Click the following link for more information, including the terms of reference. Download the P11 form that must be used to apply.
• Directory of Training Institutions Offering Activities Aimed at Improving Capacity for Detection, Prevention and Prosecution of Cases of Illegal Traffic. Relevant institutions which are interested in being included in the directory are invited to complete the forms (available in English, French and Spanish) and transmit them (saved as MS Word documents) to the Secretariat
• Form for Confirmed Cases of Illegal Traffic
• Regional Workshop on Illegal Traffic
• Outline of an instruction manual for the legal profession on the prosecution of illegal traffic. Comments received from Parties and others.

In this section, you can find the terms of reference for the mechanism for promoting implementation and compliance , its current composition and relevant decisions.

This section provides information on the implementation of decision V/32 whereby the Conference of the Parties decided to enlarge the scope of the Technical Cooperation Trust Fund of the Basel Convention to assist Contracting Parties that are developing countries or countries with economies in transition in cases of emergency and compenstion for damage resulting from incidents arising from transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and other wastes and their disposal.

This section provides all the relevant information on Bilateral, Multilateral and Regional Agreements and Arrangements entered by Parties and others in accordance with Article 11 of the Basel Convention.

• Information on on-going consultations on the interpretation of paragraph 5 of Article 17 of the Basel Convention.
• Advice of 5 May 2004, received by the Secretariat from the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, concerning the entry into force of amendments to the Basel Convention (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish)
• Secretariat’s note on the role of the Depositary and Article 17(5) of the Convention on entry into force of amendments, prepared in response to a query received concerning the Ban Amendment adopted in decision III/1

This section contains information relating to the respective competencies of the Basel Convention and MARPOL 73/78, further to decision VIII/9 adopted by the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties