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The Hong Kong Convention on the Recycling of Ships

Michael N Tsimplis *

I. INTRODUCTION

The management of wastes, and in particular of hazardous wastes, is a pressing environmental issue. Following several decades during which developed states have used developing states as dumping grounds, a number of international policy and legal arrangements have been put in place to ensure that hazardous wastes are not simply dumped wherever it is cheaper or more convenient, but that they are handled in suitable manner.

* Professor in Ocean Sciences and Maritime Law, Institute of Maritime Law, University of Southampton. I would like to thank Nick Gaskell and Yvonne Baatz, Alex Sandiforth and Johanna Hjalmarsson for providing comments in earlier drafts of the paper.

The following abbreviations are used:

Basel Ban: Basel Action Network Amendment to the Basel Convention on the Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 1989, 1995;

Basel Convention: Basel Convention on the Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 1989;

Basel Protocol: Basel Protocol on Liability and Compensation for Damage Resulting from Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 1999;

IHM: International Inventory of Hazardous Materials;

SRC: Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships 2009;

WTO/GATT Agreement: Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of the Trade Negotiations, 15 April 1994 (1994) 33 ILM 1125.

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