Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B15: Authorization requirements for importers 

Date when the measure came into force

04 September 1999 

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 and E: Protection of the environment 

Description of the measure

12. Registration of waste carrier
(1) The provisions of this section shall come into effect 12 months after the coming into operation of this Act.
(2) Subject to subsection (6), no person shall cause or effect the movement of controlled waste within Botswana or the trans-boundary movement of controlled waste without being registered as a waste carrier under the provisions of this section:
Provided that any person carrying on business as a waste carrier before the commencement of this Act or such other person as the Minister may determine on the recommendations of the Director, may, upon being registered, continue in such business or commence operations of such business pending the determination of the application for a licence under section 13. 

Reference of the measure

Article 12 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

"Controlled waste" which includes the waste defined as household, industrial, commercial, clinical or hazardous waste 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Entire world