Basel Convention E-waste Amendments

The fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (face-to-face segment of COP-15 , 6-17 June 2022) adopted amendments to Annexes II, VIII and IX to the Convention with the objectives of enlarging the control of transboundary movements of e-waste and making all electronic and electrical waste subject to the prior informed consent (PIC) procedure. 

The following changes were made to Annexes II, VIII and IX to the Convention: 

• Annex II (waste that requires special consideration: subject to the PIC procedure): addition of new entry Y49 covering all e-wastes, its components and wastes from the processing of e-waste (e. g. fractions from shredding), except for those e-waste covered by entry A1181 (in Annex VIII);
• Annex VIII (waste presumed to be hazardous: subject to the PIC procedure): addition of new entry A1181 covering hazardous e-wastes, its components and wastes from the processing of e-waste (e. g. fractions from shredding), and deletion of existing entry A1180;
• Annex IX (waste presumed not to be hazardous: not subject to the PIC procedure): deletion of the existing e-waste entries B1110 (e-wastes) and B4030 (single-use cameras). 

The new entries become effective as of 1 January 2025.