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1.Expresses its appreciation to those parties that have provided funding for the activities of the Secretariat aimed at assisting parties in implementing and enforcing the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal;
2.Welcomes the various implementation and enforcement activities undertaken by the Secretariat1 and encourages the Secretariat to develop those activities further;
3.Also welcomes the active engagement of the World Customs Organization, the International Criminal Police Organization, the Green Customs Initiative, the Basel Convention regional and coordinating centres and relevant non-governmental organizations and networks in preventing and combating illegal traffic in hazardous and other wastes and invites those organizations and networks to continue their collaboration with the Secretariat on activities aimed at assisting parties to prevent and combat illegal traffic;
4.Urges parties to fulfil their obligations set out in paragraph 4 of Article 4 and paragraph 5 of Article 9 of the Convention, including in particular:
(a)To promulgate, update or develop stringent legislation on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes;
(b)To incorporate into their national legislation appropriate sanctions or penalties for illegal traffic in hazardous wastes and other wastes covered by the Basel Convention;
5.Invites parties to report confirmed cases of illegal traffic to the Secretariat using the form for confirmed cases of illegal traffic;
6.Requests the Secretariat to continue to provide assistance in the identification of cases of illegal traffic to parties upon request and to make available on the Convention website the forms for confirmed cases of illegal traffic that are submitted;
(a)To train enforcement personnel, including, as appropriate, Customs and port authority officers, coast guards, representatives of environment agencies, prosecutors, the judiciary and the police, to build their capacity better to prevent, identify and manage cases of illegal traffic in hazardous and other wastes;
(b)To enhance cooperation with existing international organizations, agencies and programmes and to participate actively in enforcement training activities, exchanges of inspectors and train-the-trainers programmes in collaboration with, among others, the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, the Green Customs Initiative and the Transfrontier Shipment of Waste cluster of the European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law;
(c)To take all practical steps to include the relevant provisions of the Basel Convention in the national training curricula of such enforcement personnel;
8.Stresses the importance of border officers focusing equally on exports and imports and the importance of providing appropriate incentives and removing possible disincentives for enforcement entities to prevent and combat illegal traffic in hazardous and other wastes;
9.Encourages parties to raise the awareness of all relevant stakeholders, including those in the shipping industry, and waste generators and disposers about illegal traffic in hazardous and other wastes and applicable national legal frameworks;
10.Urges parties to improve cooperation and coordination among entities working to prevent and combat illegal traffic in hazardous and other wastes at the national level, including through the development of cooperative agreements between those entities;
11.Requests the Secretariat, subject to availability of funding, to organize enforcement training activities, in collaboration with the Basel Convention regional and coordinating centres, the secretariats of other relevant multilateral environmental agreements and other international organizations, agencies or programmes, to assist parties, particularly developing‑country parties and parties with economies in transition, to develop national legislation and other measures to implement and enforce the Convention and to prevent and punish illegal traffic;
12.Encourages parties to continue to provide the Secretariat with the texts of national legislation and other measures adopted by them to implement and enforce the Convention;
13.Requests the Secretariat to continue to maintain a collection of national legislation and other measures adopted by parties to implement the Convention, including measures for preventing and punishing illegal traffic, and to make such measures available on the Convention website;
14.Also requests the Secretariat to continue to provide advice and assistance on matters related to the implementation and enforcement of the Convention, including on the development of national legislation, to parties upon request;
15.Calls upon parties and others in a position to do so to make financial or in kind contributions to the development of enforcement tools and the conduct of enforcement training activities on the prevention and punishment of illegal traffic, the development of tools and the conduct of training activities on the development of national legislation and other measures to implement the Convention;