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ANNEX VWASTE SUBJECT TO THE EXPORT PROHIBITION IN ARTICLE 36

Part 1(1)

List A (Annex VIII to the Basel Convention)

A1METAL AND METAL BEARING WASTES

A1010Metal wastes and waste consisting of alloys of any of the following:

but excluding such wastes specifically listed on list B.

A1020Waste having as constituents or contaminants, excluding metal waste in massive form, any of the following:
A1030Wastes having as constituents or contaminants any of the following:
A1040Wastes having as constituents any of the following:
A1050Galvanic sludges
A1060Waste liquors from the pickling of metals
A1070Leaching residues from zinc processing, dust and sludges such as jarosite, hematite, etc.
A1080Waste zinc residues not included on list B, containing lead and cadmium in concentrations sufficient to exhibit Annex III characteristics
A1090Ashes from the incineration of insulated copper wire
A1100Dusts and residues from gas cleaning systems of copper smelters
A1110Spent electrolytic solutions from copper electrorefining and electrowinning operations
A1120Waste sludges, excluding anode slimes, from electrolyte purification systems in copper electrorefining and electrowinning operations
A1130Spent etching solutions containing dissolved copper
A1140Waste cupric chloride and copper cyanide catalysts
A1150Precious metal ash from incineration of printed circuit boards not included on list B(2)
A1160Waste lead-acid batteries, whole or crushed
A1170Unsorted waste batteries excluding mixtures of only list B batteries. Waste batteries not specified on list B containing Annex I constituents to an extent to render them hazardous
A1180Waste electrical and electronic assemblies or scrap(3) containing components such as accumulators and other batteries included on list A, mercury-switches, glass from cathode‐ray tubes and other activated glass and PCB-capacitors, or contaminated with Annex I constituents (e.g. cadmium, mercury, lead, polychlorinated biphenyl) to an extent that they possess any of the characteristics contained in Annex III (note the related entry on list B, B1110)(4)
A1190Waste metal cables coated or insulated with plastics containing or contaminated with coal tar, PCB(5), lead, cadmium, other organohalogen compounds or other Annex I constituents, to the extent that they exhibit Annex III characteristics
(1)

References in Lists A and B to Annexes I, III and IV refer to Annexes of the Basel Convention.

(2)

Note that mirror entry on list B (B1160) does not specify exceptions.

(3)

This entry does not include scrap assemblies from electric power generation.

(4)

PCBs are at a concentration level of 50 mg/kg or more.

(5)

PCBs at a concentration level of 50mg/kg or more.