The urban center lies in the middle of the " Golden Triangle " between Zurich, Bern, and Basel, and Aarau is having increasing difficulty in maintaining the independence of its economic base from the neighboring large cities.

For example, if a bank, operating under the Basel I accord, has to hold 8 % capital against default risk, but the real risk of default is lower, it is profitable to securitise the loan, removing the low risk loan from its portfolio.

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known simply as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries ( LDCs ).

The exception to this rule is where the waste is subject to another treaty that does not take away from the Basel Convention.

The United States is a notable non-Party to the Convention and has a number of such agreements for allowing the shipping of hazardous wastes to Basel Party countries.

The number of ratification for the entry-into force of the Ban Amendment is under debate: Amendments to the convention enter into force after ratification of " three-fourths of the Parties who accepted them " 17. 5 ; so far, the Parties of the Basel Convention could not yet agree whether this would be three fourth of the Parties that were Party to the Basel Convention when the Ban was adopted, or three fourth of the current Parties of the ConventionReport of COP 9 of the Basel Convention.

Basel () or Basle (; ; ) is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166, 000 inhabitants.

With 830, 000 inhabitants in the tri-national urban agglomeration as of 2004, Basel is Switzerland's second-largest urban area.

Basel is German-speaking.

The local variant of the Swiss German dialects is called Basel German.

Basel is among the most important cultural centres of Switzerland.

The town of Basel was called Basilea or Basilia in Latin ( from Ancient Greek Basileia, Βασιλεια meaning kingship ) and this name is documented from 374 AD.

Since the donation of the Abbey Moutier-Grandvalto and all its possessions to Bishop Adalbero II in 999 till the Reformation, Basel was ruled by prince-bishops ( see Bishop of Basel, whose memory is preserved in the crosier shown on the Basel coat-of-arms – see above ).

The wettest month is June during which time Basel receives an average of of rain or snow.

Basel Badischer Bahnhof is on the opposite side of the city.

Basel is located on the A3 motorway.

The Basel Regional S-Bahn, the commuter rail network connecting to suburbs surrounding the city, is jointly operated by SBB, SNCF and DB.

Basel is located at the meeting point of France, Germany and Switzerland and has numerous road and rail crossings between Switzerland and the other two countries.

Located in northwest Switzerland on the river Rhine, Basel functions as a major industrial centre for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

With the treaty of Peace of Basel, revolutionary France emerged as a major European power.

Urban commuter rail networks are focused on the country's major cities: Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Bern, Lausanne and Neuchâtel.

** Sandoz chemical spill: a major environmental disaster near Basel, Switzerland, pollutes the Rhine.

The carnival of the city of Basel ( Basler Fasnacht ) is a major cultural event in the year.

The largest are Art Basel, an art show for Modern and contemporary works ; and BaselWorld, a major watch and jewellery show.

Her most recent major solo exhibition is ‘ A Boat Used As A Vessel ’, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland ( April 2009-June 2009 ).

The treaty of Peace of Basel was the emergence of revolutionary France as a major European power.

This 1881 Congress, the first ever held, 16 years before the World Zionist Organization's First Zionist ( held in Basel ), had a major influence on the Romanian Jews, and its proceedings also became known outside the borders of Romania.

Chillida's sculptures have been collected by major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ; the Tate Britain in London ; the Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland ; and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

During the 2nd world war, there were five major Kenim ( Zurich, Basel, Berne, Biel, Geneva ) plus activities in a few smaller cities and in the refugee centers.

Despite being a mathematician, he is not remembered for any work in that field ; rather, his major contribution ( made at the age of sixty, in 1885 ) was an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom, the study of which he took up at the suggestion of Eduard Hagenbach also of Basel.

* His works have been presented in major international exhibitions ranging from Antwerp, Brussels, Basel, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona and Chicago to the Venice Biennale.

Advocates of Basel II believed that such an international standard could help protect the international financial system from the types of problems that might arise should a major bank or a series of banks collapse.

Politically, it was difficult to implement Basel II in the regulatory environment prior to 2008, and progress was generally slow until that year's major banking crisis caused mostly by credit default swaps, mortgage-backed security markets and similar derivatives.

The city is also connected by rail to major hubs at Singen and Radolfzell ( direct connection ), the German station in Basel, Friedrichshafen, Ulm ( direct connection ), and Constance.

His work is in major collections including Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth ; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis ; Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles ; and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D. C. Solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Museum, Basel ( 1990 ); “ Mark Tansey: Art and Source ”, Seattle Art Museum, Washington ( 1990, traveled to Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada, St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, List Visual Art Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas through 1991 ); Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York ( 2005 ) and Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany ( 2005, traveled to Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany ).

The painting of St. Christopher ( Kunstmuseum, Basel ; illustrated ) does not seem to be related to these major altarpieces.

The collection, the first major public display of his work, was also shown in Hamburg, Darmstadt, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Munich and Basel.

In 1558, after her death, a major collection of some of her Greek letters and Latin dialogues was published in Basel.

Following an international composition competition, he was awarded a grant from the Basel Boys Choir of Switzerland to compose a major work for an international celebration of youth choirs.

Basel SBB railway station | Basel Bahnhof SBB, self proclaimed " world's first international train station.

Within Switzerland, Basel was chosen largely because of its location, with excellent railway connections in all directions, especially important at a time when most international travel was by train.

The nearest international airports are in Stuttgart, in Basel, and Zurich, which has a direct train from Konstanz.

The town enjoys regular-interval train services to Lindau and Ulm, as well as to Basel in Switzerland.

The legendary Rheingold ( Rhinegold ) was a famous train riding between Hoek van Holland near Rotterdam and Basel, Switzerland, a distance of.

Rocker reached Basel, Switzerland on March 8 by the last train to cross the border without being searched.

Auggen has its own train stop on the Freiburg / Basel line, serviced by the Bahn.

Müllheim has its own train stop on the Freiburg / Basel line, serviced by the Deutsche Bahn.

The ICN runs as an InterCity train but sometimes with halt frequencies in the same manner as an IR ( Geneva / Lausanne-St. Gallen / Basel route ) and sometimes as IC trains ( Basel-Chiasso ).

Olten's railway station is within 30 minutes of Zurich, Bern, Basel, and Lucerne by train, and is a rail hub of Switzerland.

It is noticeable that, while he held his office in the curia through that momentous period of fifty years which witnessed the Councils of Konstanz, in the train of Pope John XXIII, and of Basel, and the final restoration of the papacy under Nicholas V, his sympathies were never attracted to ecclesiastical affairs.

* July 21-A fast train from Basel to Copenhagen derails due to a technical failure in the Class 103 engine ; 23 die and 121 are injured.

The scenes were shot at Basel central train station.

On 6 February 2000, locomotive 101 092 was powering D 203, an express train hauling skiers ( also called the " Swiss Express "), with a run from Amsterdam to Basel.