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BASEL CONVENTION REGIONAL CENTRE
BRATISLAVA, SLOVAK REPUBLIC
1995: Establishment of the BCRC as a unit within
SLOVAK ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY – CENTRE OF
WASTE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
19 CEE countries
1997 activities started
15 workshops (training), 8 projects
1 project in progress
Bratislava
Oct 3 - 5, 2006
Dana Lapešová
BCRC Bratislava, Slovakia
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BASEL CONVENTION REGIONAL CENTRE
BRATISLAVA, SLOVAK REPUBLIC
• Implementation of the Basel Convention into national
legislation
• Training courses and workshops
• Supplementary projects to the workshops and
comprehensive studies
• Assistance and advisory services
• Promotion and public awareness
Bratislava
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Basel Convention Regional Centres (BCRCs)
At present 14 Regional Centres in operation:
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Latin America and the Caribbean: Argentina, El
Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay
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Africa: Egypt, Senegal, South Africa, Nigeria
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Asia and Pacific: China, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic
Republic of), SPREP
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Central and Eastern Europe: Russian Federation,
Slovakia
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BASEL CONVENTION REGIONAL CENTRE
BRATISLAVA, SLOVAK REPUBLIC
PRIORITY AREAS
• Adoption and implementation of BC into national
legislation
• Setting up environmentally sound HW management
systems
• Introduction of the waste management information
system at a national level
• Technologies for environmentally sound treatment
and disposal of HW
• Promotion of public awareness
• Control system for HW movement
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COOPERATION WITH OTHERS MEAs
Stockholm Convention
Rotterdam Convention
International Pesticides Forum
WTO
GEN
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BCRC BRATISLAVA TRAINING COURSES
June 1997 to May 2004: 13 training courses
1. Implementation of the Basel Convention into the
National Legislation (June 1997)
2. Identification of Hazardous Wastes (October 1997)
3. The Information Management System on Wastes
(December 1997)
4. Enforcement of the Basel Convention Principles (March
1998)
5. Public Awareness Programmes (June 1998)
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BCRC BRATISLAVA TRAINING COURSES
6. Cleaner production and Waste Minimisation
(September 1998)
7. Methods of Waste Disposal with Focus on Incineration
(November 1998)
8. Control of the Transboundary Movements of Hazardous
Wastes (May 1999)
9. Implementation of the Basel Ban Amendment - Danish
Project (March 2000)
10. Comparative Analysis of International Waste Lists and
Control Systems (June 2002)
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Business Plan 2003-04
Background documents
10-Year Strategic Plan for implementation of the Basel
Convention
National priorities
11. Cleaner production - Waste Minimization Training
(November 2003)
12. Strengthening of Co-operation based on Chemicals
and Hazardous Wastes Conventions (March 2004)
13. Regional Workshop on the Preparation of a Regional
approach for the ESM of POPs as Wastes for Selected
CEE countries (May 2004)
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2005-06 Business Plan
Category One:
• Capacity Building of the Regional Centre
Category Two:
• Implementing the Obligations of the Convention
Category Three:
• The Environmentally Sound Management of Basel
Convention Priority Waste Streams
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Capacity Building of the Regional Centre
Development, maintenance and Operation of BCRC
Bratislava Web Page
www.sazp.sk/bcrc
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Implementing The Obligations of the Convention
Regional Workshop
Aimed at Promoting Ratification of the Basel Protocol
on Liability and Compensation for Damage resulting
from Transboundary Movements of Hazardous
Wastes and their Disposal
Warsaw, Poland, January 18-20,2006
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Implementing The Obligations of the Convention
• The participating countries presented their national
legislation on environmental liability
• The Main Comments and Difficulties with Ratification
• Financial limits and insurance
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The Environmentally Sound Management of Basel
Convention Priority Waste Streams
• Biomedical and Health Care Wastes
• Development and Establishment of a Lubricating Oil
Management System
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Recent activities
Legal assistance for the elaboration and adaptation of
national legislation for the effective implementation of
the Basel Convention in Bulgaria, FYR Macedonia and
Republic of Serbia and Montenegro
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Regional Workshop aimed at ESM in Used Oils
Attendance: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia,
Lithuania, FYR of Macedonia, Poland, Serbia and
Montenegro and the Slovak Republic.
The main objective of the workshop was to present
current situation in the management of waste lubricating
oils in CEE countries and their efforts to improve it taking
into account relevant Basel Convention technical
guidelines and the Proposal for a Directive of the
European Parliament and of the Council on Waste.
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Regional Workshop aimed at ESM in Used Oils
Specific objectives of the workshop were as follows:
• to present results of a project in Bosnia and
Herzegovina ”Background analysis for development
and establishment of a lubricating oil management
system in BIH”
• to present the waste oil management in Slovakia and
EU (Spain)
• to exchange information and experience among CEE
countries
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Background Analysis for Development and Establishment of a
Lubricating Oil Management System in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Assessment of current local lubricant industry
Collection of data on imports and exports of lubricants
Collection of information on lubricant sales
Estimates of consumption and used oil generation
Consideration of current lubricants use and disposal
practices
• Analysis of available used oil treatment facilities
• Assessment of current environmental impacts and risks
related to lubricant use
• Establishment of database/inventories of major users of
lubricants, i.e. used oils generators
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Background Analysis for Development and Establishment of a
Lubricating Oil Management System in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Next steps:
1. Development and implementation of legislation and
implementing regulation
• lubricant manufactures/importers responsibility
• source separation of used oils
• subsidies/incentives and financial support for
collection and disposal of used oils
2. Preparation and distribution of instructions/
guidelines for environmentally sound storage, use
and handling of new and used lubricants
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Background Analysis for Development and Establishment of a
Lubricating Oil Management System in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cont.
3. Establishment of efficient reporting, monitoring and
inspection system
4. Organisation and provision of necessary training to
key institutional personnel
5. Implementation of well designed public awareness
campaigns
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Strategy on The Management of The Health Care
Waste
Strategy on the management of the health care waste
FYR of Macedonia
• To map out the current situation in the area of biomedical
and healthcare waste management;
• To analyse the current situation and to propose realistic
actions to solve problems existing in the country;
• To develop a strategy to implement a national HCWM to
improve the situation in the field on biomedical and
healthcare wastes management.
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BP 2007-08
The overall objective of the Basel Convention Regional
Centre (BCRC) in Bratislava is to strengthen and further
develop the capabilities of countries in the Central and
Eastern Europe (CEE) region in implementing the Basel
Convention and managing hazardous wastes in an
environmentally sound manner. This objective will be
realised through dissemination of information into region,
through assistance for individual country and through
regional or sub-regional projects.
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Specific objectives
• Assist countries to achieve objectives of National
Implementation Plans of the Stockholm Convention
on POPs;
• Assist countries to implement Council Directive on
waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE);
• Improve the information in the region regarding
separate collection of small household appliance
under the Council Directive on WEEE;
• Assist with hazardous waste legislation
development;
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Specific objectives
• Assistance to accession and pre-accession countries
in harmonization of national legislation with EU
regulations;
• Reporting obligations to European Commission;
• Mutual sharing of information on waste legislation
status in individual countries;
• Illegal traffic problems - training of customs and
border police officers and environmental inspectors.
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disseminating information into region
organising regional workshops
assistance to individual countries with projects
realisation of regional projects aimed at ESM in
priority waste streams
initiating a partnership with the industry and private
sector
initiating a partnership with key stakeholders in the
CEE region
engaging in BCRC network
seeking a sustainable financial funding
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Regional Needs Assessment
The CEE region specified the following activities:
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POPs waste management
Used oil management
Health care waste strategy
Electrical and electronic waste
Ship dismantling
Used batteries
Illegal traffic
Legislation
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Proposed regional projects
 used oil management;
 used batteries management;
 preparation of the health care waste management
strategy;
 waste containing POPs management;
 obsolete stocks of pesticides management
 electric and electronic waste management;
 ship dismantling.
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• Environmentally sound management of waste oils in
B&H
• Development and establishment of a lubricating oil
management system in FYR Macedonia
• Strategy on the management of the health care
waste in FYR Macedonia
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Workshop on criteria and procedures for acceptance of
waste at landfills regarding the relevant EU
legislation
• The main objective of the project is to exchange information
from implementation of EU legislation in the area of waste
landfilling in countries of the region served by the BCRC
Bratislava and to acquire new experience in the field of
analytical control of wastes from EU member states where the
legislation has been followed for a longer time.
• the Council Decision of 19 December 2002 implementation of
the Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill
of waste as well as the Council Decision of 19 December 2002
(a provision of information and possible solutions)
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Categorisation of POPs waste
The project gives an emphasis on the co-operation
between the Basel Convention and the Stockholm
Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
The aim of the project is:
 a strategy on identification of wastes containing
chemical pollutants listed in SC, particularly POPs
pesticides;
 a strategy for detection of waste amounts that
contain chemical pollutants listed in SC, particularly
POPs pesticides;
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Categorisation of POPs waste
 a proposition for an amendment of the existing legal
documentation in the individual country in the area of
POPs wastes categorisation;
 a workshop to survey the situation in the area of
POPs pesticides in the CEE region and to exchange
information between the CEE countries.
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POPs wastes in the agriculture sector
The project gives an emphasis on the co-operation
between Basel Convention and Stockholm
Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
The aim of the project is:
 executed up to date inventory control of old POPs
pesticide resources;
 established system (information or database) of old
POPs pesticide resources in the individual countries,
served by BCRC Slovakia;
 executed inventory control of possible solutions on
use of solids on a hexachlorobenzene basis.
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POPs wastes in the agriculture sector
 analysis of environmentally best technologies for
disposal of POPs pesticides and selection of BAT
taking into account the economic and environmental
efficiency as well as social acceptance for conditions
of SR, eventually for CEE countries
 identified potential burden of population and
elements of environment on the basis of executed
inventory control
 a workshop to survey the situation in the area of
POPs pesticides in CEE region and for an
information exchange between CEE countries.
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The Environmentally Sound Management of Waste Electric
and Electronic Equipment from Private Households
• The main objective of the proposed project is to assist the
Central and Eastern Europe countries in the
implementation of certain provisions of WEEE Directives.
• Specific objectives of the proposed project are as follows:
 to analyse the definition of WEEE from private
households, in particular the nature and quantity of
WEEE from commercial, industrial, institutional and
other sources which is similar to that from private
households, and to propose the method of clear
classification of WEEE.
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The Environmentally Sound Management of Waste Electric
and Electronic Equipment from Private Households
 to define the obligations of a holder of taken-back
electrical and electronic equipment more precisely
and to determine the moment, when the taken-back
electrical and electronic equipment becomes the
waste electrical and electronic equipment
 to raise public awareness and to motivate citizens to
separate WEEE, especially small household
appliances which currently ends-up in a mixed
municipal waste.
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Thank you for your attention.
More detail information about BCRC Bratislava:
www.sazp.sk/bcrc
or directly at:
[email protected]
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