Non-Tariff Measure

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 

Products affected by the measure.

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; 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description
Countries that are not parties to the Basel Convention