CHAPTER XXVII

ENVIRONMENT3aAmendment to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their DisposalGeneva, 22 September 1995Not yet in forcesee article 17 (5) of the Convention which reads as follows: "Instruments of ratification, approval, formal confirmation or acceptance of amendments shall be deposited with the Depositary. Amendments adopted in accordance with paragraphs 3 or 4 [of article 17 of the Convention] shall enter into force between Parties having accepted them on the ninetieth day after the receipt by the Depositary of their instrument of ratification, approval, formal confirmation or acceptance by at least three-fourths of the Parties who accepted them or by at least two thirds of the Parties to the protocol concerned who accepted them, except as may otherwise be provided in such protocol. The amendments shall enter into force for any other Party on the ninetieth day after that Party deposits its instrument of ratification, approval, formal confirmation or acceptance of the amendments.".StatusParties75TextDoc. UNEP/CHW.3/35.By decision III/1, of 22 September 1995, the Third meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the above Convention, which took place in Geneva from 18 to 22 September 1995, adopted an Amendment to the Convention (including the adoption of Annex VII).

ParticipantRatification, Acceptance(A), Approval(AA), Succession(d)Albania27 Oct 2005 AAndorra23 Jul 1999 AArgentina19 Sep 2011 Austria17 Oct 1999 ABahrain25 Jul 2005 Belgium20 Jun 2003 Bolivia (Plurinational State of)31 Mar 2005 Botswana17 Jun 2004 ABrunei Darussalam16 Dec 2002 ABulgaria15 Feb 2000 Chile12 Aug 2009 AChina 1 May 2001 Cook Islands29 Jun 2004 Cyprus 7 Jul 2000 ACzech Republic28 Feb 2000 ADenmark<superscript>1</superscript>10 Sep 1997 AAEcuador 6 Mar 1998 Egypt27 Jan 2004 Estonia 2 Aug 2001 Ethiopia 8 Oct 2003 European Union30 Sep 1997 AAFinland 5 Sep 1996 AFrance18 Nov 2003 AAGambia 7 Mar 2001 Germany24 May 2002 AGhana 9 Jun 2005 Greece12 Jul 2010 Hungary25 May 2004 AAIndonesia24 Oct 2005 Ireland13 Nov 2009 Italy 3 Mar 2009 Jordan 6 Dec 2004 AAKenya 9 Sep 2009 AKuwait12 May 2006 Latvia18 Dec 2003 ALesotho22 Feb 2012 ALiberia16 Sep 2005 ALiechtenstein20 May 2003 ALithuania 7 Nov 2003 ALuxembourg14 Aug 1997 Malaysia26 Oct 2001 Malta12 Dec 2011 AMauritius 9 Nov 2004 Monaco20 Mar 2013 AAMontenegro<superscript>2</superscript>23 Oct 2006 dMorocco10 Sep 2004 AANetherlands22 Jan 2001 ANigeria24 May 2004 Norway16 Jul 1997 AOman17 May 2004 Panama 7 Oct 1998 Paraguay28 Aug 1998 Poland29 Jan 2003 APortugal30 Oct 2000 Qatar28 Feb 2002 Republic of Moldova18 Nov 2008 ARomania17 Jul 2002 ASaudi Arabia10 Jan 2013 Serbia22 Nov 2002 ASlovakia11 Sep 1998 ASlovenia 1 Dec 2004 Spain 7 Aug 1997 ASri Lanka29 Jan 1999 St. Lucia22 Jan 2002 Sweden10 Sep 1997 ASwitzerland 7 Nov 2002 ASyrian Arab Republic 5 Oct 2004 The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia18 Nov 2004 Trinidad and Tobago12 Jan 2000 Tunisia26 Oct 1999 Turkey27 Aug 2003 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland<superscript>3,4,5</superscript>13 Oct 1997 United Republic of Tanzania26 Aug 2002 Uruguay10 Mar 1999 Zambia27 Jul 2011 Syrian Arab RepublicDeclaration:... that the accession of the Syrian Arab Republic to the Amendment and the Protocol shall not under any circumstances whatsoever signify recognition of Israel, nor shall it lead to entry therewith into any dealings that may be governed by the provisions of the said amendment and Protocol.1With a reservation for the application to the Faroe Islands and Greenland.Subsequently, on 15 April 1998, the Government of Denmark informed the Secretary-General of the following: “....the reservation for the application of the Amendment to Greenland is hereby lifted.”2See note 1 under "Montenegro" in the "Historical Information" section in the front matter of this volume.3On behalf of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the British Antarctic Territory.Further, on 12 December 2001, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland informed the Secretary-General that “the amendment shall extend to the Isle of Man for whose international relations the Government of the United Kingdom is responsible”.On 27 November 2002: on behalf of the Bailiwick of Guernsey.On 6 September 2006: on behalf of Akrotiri and Dhekelia.4On 14 September 2007, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland informed the Secretary-General that it "wishes the United Kingdom's Ratification of the Amendment ... to be extended to Jersey for whose international relations the United Kingdom is responsible. The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland considers the extension of the Amendment to the Convention ... to Jersey to take effect from the date of deposit of this notification , ... ."5 On 11 April 2013, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland informed the Secretary-General that: "… the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland wishes the United Kingdom’s ratification of the Convention as amended be extended to the territory of Gibraltar for whose international relations the United Kingdom is responsible. The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland considers the extension of the aforesaid Convention as amended to Gibraltar to take effect on the ninetieth day after the date of deposit of this notification ..."