Since December 5, 2019 the Ban Amendment to the Basel Convention prohibits shipments of hazardous waste from OECD countries to non-OECD countries for disposal or recovery. While the Ban Amendment was originally adopted by the Parties to the Basel Convention in 1995, it languished pending the need for sufficient ratifications to meet its entry into force threshold. In 2019 Saint Kitts and Nevis and Croatia ratified the amendment, thereby meeting the ratification threshold for entry into force.