Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B33: Packaging requirements 

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 and E: Protection of the environment 

Description of the measure

Article 4: General Obligations
7. Furthermore, each Party shall:
(b) Require that hazardous wastes and other wastes that are to be the subject of a transboundary movement be packaged, labelled, and transported in conformity with generally accepted and recognised international rules and standards in the field of packaging, labelling, and transport, and that due account is taken of relevant internationally recognised practices 

Reference of the measure

Schedule: Basel Convention; Sub-Article 4(7)(b) 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Hazardous wastes and other wastes that are to be the subject of a transboundary movement 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Entire world