Depositary
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CHAPTER XXVII
ENVIRONMENT
3. a Amendment to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
Geneva, 22 September 1995
Entry into force
:
5 December 2019, in accordance with 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".
Registration :
5 December 2019, No. 28911
Status :
Parties : 104
Note :
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).
Participant
 Ratification, Acceptance(A), Approval(AA), Succession(d)
Albania
 27 Oct 2005 A
Algeria
  3 Jul 2017
Andorra
 23 Jul 1999 A
Antigua and Barbuda
 23 Sep 2016
Argentina
 19 Sep 2011
Austria
 17 Oct 1999 A
Bahrain
 25 Jul 2005
Belgium
 20 Jun 2003
Benin
 22 Jan 2014
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
 31 Mar 2005
Botswana
 17 Jun 2004 A
Brazil
 22 Mar 2023 A
Brunei Darussalam
 16 Dec 2002 A
Bulgaria
 15 Feb 2000
Chile
 12 Aug 2009 A
China
  1 May 2001
Colombia
 10 Jun 2014
Congo
  2 Sep 2014
Cook Islands
 29 Jun 2004
Costa Rica
 21 Nov 2019
Côte d'Ivoire
 24 Sep 2013
Croatia
  6 Sep 2019
Cyprus
  7 Jul 2000 A
Czech Republic
 28 Feb 2000 A
Denmark 1
10 Sep 1997 AA
Dominican Republic
 18 Mar 2024 AA
Ecuador
  6 Mar 1998
Egypt
 27 Jan 2004
El Salvador
  7 Dec 2015
Estonia
  2 Aug 2001
Ethiopia
  8 Oct 2003
European Union
 30 Sep 1997 AA
Finland
  5 Sep 1996 A
France
 18 Nov 2003 AA
Gambia
  7 Mar 2001
Germany
 24 May 2002 A
Ghana
  9 Jun 2005
Greece
 12 Jul 2010
Guatemala
 26 Dec 2013
Guinea
  6 Feb 2017
Hungary
 25 May 2004 AA
Iceland
  4 Apr 2018
Indonesia
 24 Oct 2005
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
 12 Jan 2016
Ireland
 13 Nov 2009
Italy
  3 Mar 2009
Jamaica
 29 Sep 2015
Jordan
  6 Dec 2004 AA
Kenya
  9 Sep 2009 A
Kuwait
 12 May 2006
Latvia
 18 Dec 2003 A
Lebanon
 13 Oct 2017 A
Lesotho
 22 Feb 2012 A
Liberia
 16 Sep 2005 A
Liechtenstein
 20 May 2003 A
Lithuania
  7 Nov 2003 A
Luxembourg
 14 Aug 1997
Malawi
  1 Aug 2017
Malaysia
 26 Oct 2001
Maldives
 19 Jun 2017
Malta
 12 Dec 2011 A
Mauritius
  9 Nov 2004
Mexico
 12 May 2022 A
Monaco
 20 Mar 2013 AA
Montenegro 2
23 Oct 2006 d
Morocco
 10 Sep 2004 AA
Namibia
 31 Aug 2018 A
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
 22 Jan 2001 A
Nicaragua
 13 Jan 2021
Niger
  5 Nov 2015 AA
Nigeria
 24 May 2004
North Macedonia
 18 Nov 2004
Norway
 16 Jul 1997 A
Oman
 17 May 2004
Panama
  7 Oct 1998
Paraguay
 28 Aug 1998
Peru
 30 Mar 2015 A
Poland
 29 Jan 2003 A
Portugal
 30 Oct 2000
Qatar
 28 Feb 2002
Republic of Moldova
 18 Nov 2008 A
Romania
 17 Jul 2002 A
Saudi Arabia
 10 Jan 2013
Serbia
 22 Nov 2002 A
Seychelles
 15 Jul 2015 A
Sierra Leone
 15 Jun 2020
Slovakia
 11 Sep 1998 A
Slovenia
  1 Dec 2004
South Africa
 24 Jun 2016
Spain 3, 4
 7 Aug 1997 A
Sri Lanka
 29 Jan 1999
St. Kitts and Nevis
 29 Aug 2019
St. Lucia
 22 Jan 2002
Sweden
 10 Sep 1997 A
Switzerland
  7 Nov 2002 A
Syrian Arab Republic
  5 Oct 2004
Thailand
  9 Mar 2023 A
Trinidad and Tobago
 12 Jan 2000
Tunisia
 26 Oct 1999
Türkiye
 27 Aug 2003
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 3, 5, 6
13 Oct 1997
United Republic of Tanzania
 26 Aug 2002
Uruguay
 10 Mar 1999
Zambia
 27 Jul 2011
Declarations
(Unless otherwise indicated, the declarations were made upon formal confirmation, ratification,
acceptance, approval, accession or succession.)
Syrian Arab Republic

Declaration:

       ... 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.
End Note
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.
3 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 ..."
4 On 1 November 2013, the Secretary-General received from the Government of Spain the following communication with regard to the Territorial Application by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Gibraltar:

1. Gibraltar is a Non-Self-Governing Territory for whose international relations the Government of the United Kingdom is responsible and which is subject to a process of decolonization in accordance with the relevant decisions and resolutions of the General Assembly.

2. The Gibraltarian authorities are local in character, and exercise competences exclusively over internal affairs that originate in and are based on the powers allocated to and conferred on them by the United Kingdom, in accordance with its domestic legislation and in its capacity as the sovereign State upon which depends the said Non-Self-Governing Territory.

3. Consequently, any involvement by the Gibraltarian authorities in the implementation of this Convention shall be understood to take place exclusively within the framework of the internal affairs of Gibraltar and shall not be considered to affect in any way the content of the two preceding paragraphs.

4. The procedure envisaged in the Arrangements relating to Gibraltar authorities in the context of Mixed Agreements, which was agreed by Spain and the United Kingdom on 19 December 2007 (together with "Agreed Arrangements relating to Gibraltar authorities in the context of European Union and European Community Instruments and Related Treaties" of 19 April 2000) applies to the present Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (Basel, 22 March 1989) and to the Amendment to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal(Geneva, 22 September 1995).

5. The implementation of the present Convention and the Amendment thereto in Gibraltar cannot be interpreted as recognition of any rights or situations involving matters not included in Article 10 of the Treaty of Utrecht of 13 July 1713, signed by the crowns of Spain and Great Britain.
5On 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.
6On 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 , ... ."
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