Non-Tariff Barriers

NTM classification: B31: Labelling 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

Code	Product	Partial coverage	Partial coverage indication	Date in	Date out
PG: 42	Hazardous wastes	No
3825	Residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included; municipal waste; sewage sludge; other wastes specified in Note 6 to this Chapter.	No

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

Inclusion/Exclusion	Country	Date in	Date out
Inclusion	Entire world

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