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.

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.

This allows, among other things, the OECD countries to continue trading in wastes with countries like the United States that have not ratified the Basel Convention.

* Flow of Waste among Basel Parties

A provision of the Charter accepting Basel required that in conflicts among the other cantons it was to stay neutral and offer its services for mediation.

After returning to Basel, Servetus published Two Books of Dialogues on the Trinity () which caused a sensation among Reformers and Catholics alike.

Ambrosius Holbein ranks among the most important of Basel ’ s illustrators and prominent „ small formats “ artists.

Holbein also painted the occasional portrait in Basel, among them the double portrait of Jakob and Dorothea Meyer, and, in 1519, that of the young academic Boniface Amerbach.

The initial location at Basel reflected the desire among parties seeking reform to meet outside the territories of the Papacy, the Holy Roman Empire, or the kings of Aragon and France, whose influences the council hoped to avoid.

Novartis International AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number two in sales ( 46. 806 billion US $) among the world-wide industry in 2010.

UBS then continued to grow through acquisitions, including Aargauische Kreditanstalt in 1919, Eidgenössische Bank in 1945, Interhandel Basel in 1967, Phillips & Drew in 1986, and Schroder, Munchmeyer, Hengst & Co. in 1997 among others.

He also continued to teach in a number of masterclasses at Weimar, Vienna and Basel ; among his pupils were Egon Petri and Stanley Gardner.

Parts sided with the Pope to form the Council of Florence, whereas the conciliar party in Basel elected another antipope before eventually losing its support among European governments.

The Guggenheim Museum ( New York City ), the Hermitage Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, Kunstmuseum Basel ( Switzerland ), the Louvre, the Museum of Modern Art ( New York City ), Muzeum Sztuki ( Lodz, Poland ), the National Gallery of Australia ( Canberra ), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery ( London ) and the Walker Art Center ( Minnesota ) are among the public collections holding works by Amédée Ozenfant.

:* Transmitter, for the among other things, television programs SF 1 and SF two, the radioprograms DRS 1, DRS 2, DRS 3, Baden-Wurttemberg SWR1, SWR2, SWR 3, Baden-Wurttemberg SWR4, radio Basel 1 and radio basilisk.

The Basel Mission also worked in Sabah in 1882 among migrant Hakka Chinese, many of whom were Christian.

The outcome of the war also confirmed and cemented the Catholic majority among the thirteen full members of the Swiss Confederation: after later settlements in Glarus and Appenzell, seven full and two half cantons remained Catholic ( Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Fribourg, Solothurn, and half of Glarus and Appenzell ), while four and two halves became firmly Swiss Reformed Protestant ( Zurich, Bern, Basel, Schaffhausen, and half of Glarus and Appenzell ).

But he is better known as the painter of the scenery and people among whom he worked as pastor at Basel, at Château d ' Oex, and at Montreux successively.

Known in the 8th century as Rathaldovilare, the town passed from the bishops of Basel to the lords of Rappoltstein, who were among the most famous nobles in Alsace.

Sympathisers led by William Whittingham ( Thomas Cole and John Foxe among them ) left for Basel and Geneva.

He studied Greek at Tübingen and jurisprudence at Basel, and after acting for three years as chaplain and secretary to Raymond Peraudi, cardinal of Gurk, he began lecturing on classics in 1504 at Erfurt, where Luther may have been among his audience.

His two well-known letters to Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini ( later Pius II ) about the pope's relations to the Council of Basel are printed among the works of Pius II Piccolomini, in his letters, describes Cesarini as unfortunate in war, but he also says the cardinal went straight to heaven upon being martyred by the Turks.

At its most recent meeting, November 27 – December 1, 2006, the Conference of the Parties of the Basel Agreement focused on issues of electronic waste and the dismantling of ships.

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 most important work of this last period is the Ecclesiastes or " Gospel Preacher " ( Basel, 1536 ), in which he comments on the function of preaching.

Galen's System of Physiology and Medicine, Basel 1968 ( this text is not regarded highly by most Galen scholars )

Karger, Basel 1970 ( this text is not regarded highly by most Galen scholars )

To minimise such differences, seven of the most respected labs, AGTA-GTL ( New York ), CISGEM ( Milano ), GAAJ-ZENHOKYO ( Tokyo ), GIA ( Carlsbad ), GIT ( Bangkok ), Gübelin ( Lucerne ) and SSEF ( Basel ), have established the Laboratory Manual Harmonisation Committee ( LMHC ), for the standardization of wording reports, promotion of certain analytical methods and interpretation of results.

Soon after the birth of Leonhard, the Eulers moved from Basel to the town of Riehen, where Euler spent most of his childhood.

* 1356 – Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.

Following Ambrosius Frobenius's publication of most of the Talmud in installments in Basel, Immanuel Benveniste published the whole Talmud in installments in Amsterdam 1644-1648, Though according to Raphael Rabbinovicz the Benveniste Talmud may have been based on the Lublin Talmud and included many of the censors ' errors.

But by far the most important feature of Eugene IV's pontificate was the great struggle between the Pope and the Council of Basel ( 1431 – 39 ), the final embodiment of the Conciliar movement.

In the following November the council elected the ambitious Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, as antipope under the name of Felix V. The conduct of France and Germany seemed to warrant this action, for King Charles VII of France had introduced the decrees of the Council of Basel, with slight changes, into France through the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges ( 7 July 1438 ), and the Diet of Mainz had deprived the Pope of most of his rights in the Empire ( 26 March 1439 ).

Until the end of the 16th century, most of the canton's land belonged to the city of Basel.

In contrast, many people living near the border with Basel, Switzerland, will speak their dialect with a Swiss person from that area, as they are mutually understandable for the most part ; similar habits may apply to conversations with people of the nearby German Markgräflerland.

These include EuroCity and EuroNight trains operating between Western and Eastern European destinations, most notably the EN Jan Kiepura direct sleeping cars which operate between Russia and Amsterdam, Basel and Munich via Warsaw, Poznań and Germany.

Abandoned by a number of his cardinals, condemned by most of the powers, deprived of his dominions by condottieri who shamelessly invoked the authority of the council, the pope made concession after concession, and ended on 15 December 1433 with a pitiable surrender of all the points at issue in a Papal bull, the terms of which were dictated by the fathers of Basel, that is, by declaring his bull of dissolution null and void, and recognising that the synod as legitimately assembled throughout.

During this time the council of Basel, though nullified at Ferrara and abandoned by Cesarini and most of its members, persisted nonetheless, under the presidency of Cardinal Aleman.

This process was condemned by the Council of Basel in 1432, which referred to it as " the most usurious contrivance ever invented by the papacy ".

The tight security measures around Davos have kept demonstrators from the Alpine resort, and most demonstrations are now held in Zürich, Bern or Basel.

Given the history and the large number of birds hatched in Basel since 1959, it may be concluded that most of the Greater Flamingo zoo colonies around the world are related to the one at Basel.

Think-tanks such as the World Pensions Council ( WPC ) have argued that most European governments pushed dogmatically for the adoption of the Basel II recommendations, adopted in 2005, transposed in European Union law through the Capital Requirements Directive ( CRD ), effective since 2008.