Non-Tariff Barriers

NTM classification: P11: Authorization or permit requirements to export, for technical reasons
Date when the measure came into force: 04 September 1998
Publication where the measure is specified: Laws of Botswana Chapter 65:06 Waste Management Act
Regulation where the measure is specified: Waste Management Act
Country/Region applying the measure: Botswana
The rationale of the measure: To protect human health and the environment by controlling and restricting the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes.
Coded list of objectives: A: Protection of human life and health, B: Protection of life and health of animals and E: Protection of the environment
Description of the measure: Article 4: General Obligations
5. A Party shall not permit hazardous wastes or other wastes to be exported to a non Party or to be imported from a non-Party.
Reference of the measure: SCHEDULE: BASEL CONVENTION ON THE CONTROL OF TRANS-BOUNDARY MOVEMENTS OF HAZARDOUS WASTES AND THEIR DISPOSAL; Sub-article 4(5
Measure also domestic: No

Code	Product	Partial coverage	Partial coverage indication	Date in	Date out
PG: 42	Hazardous wastes	No

Description: "hazardous waste" which means controlled waste which has the potential, even in low concentrations, to have significant adverse effect on public health or the environment on account of its inherent chemical and physical characteristics, such as toxic, ignitable, corrosive, carcinogenic or other properties;

Reporting, Monitoring and Eliminating Mechanism