A list of parties to the Convention, and their ratification status, can be found on the Basel Secretariat's web page.

One of the incidents which led to the creation of the Basel Convention was the Khian Sea waste disposal incident, in which a ship carrying incinerator ash from the city of Philadelphia in the United States after having dumped half of its load on a beach in Haiti, was forced away where it sailed for many months, changing its name several times.

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.

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.

Article 4 of the Basel Convention calls for an overall reduction of waste generation.

Lobbying at the 1995 Basel conference by LDCs, Greenpeace and key European countries such as Denmark, led to a decision to adopt the Basel Ban Amendment to the Basel Convention.

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.

* " Toxic Trade: International Knowledge Networks & the Development of the Basel Convention ," Jason Lloyd, International Public Policy Review, UCL link.

* Basel Convention website

** " A Simplified Guide to the Basel Convention

Constance was a missionary bishopric in newly converted lands, and did not look back on late Roman church history ( unlike the Raetian bishopric of Chur, established 451 ) and Basel, which was an episcopal seat from 740, and which continued the line of Bishops of Augusta Raurica, see Bishop of Basel.

The Pope transferred the Council from Basel to Ferrara on 18 September 1437.

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.

The status of the amendment ratifications can be found on the Basel Secretariat's web page.

* Introductory note to the Basel Convention by Dr. Katharina Kummer Peiry, Executive Secretary of the Basel Convention, UNEP on the website of the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

* Page on the Basel Convention at Greenpeace

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

During the days of the Roman Empire, the settlement of Augusta Raurica was founded 10 or 20 kilometres upstream of present Basel, and a castle was built on the hill overlooking the river where the Basel Münster now stands.

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 ).

In 1543 De humani corporis fabrica, the first book on human anatomy, was published and printed in Basel by Andreas Vesalius ( 1514 – 1564 ).

In more recent times, the World Zionist Organization held its first congress in Basel on September 3, 1897.

Basel has an average of 121. 4 days of rain or snow per year and on average receives of precipitation.

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

Basel is located on the A3 motorway.

** Between Basel SBB and Basel Badischer Bahnhof – Basel Badischer Bahnhof, and all other railway property and stations on the right bank of the Rhine belong to DB and are classed as German customs territory.

** Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal

* IT Control Objectives for Basel II

* Africa Institute for the Environmentally Sound Management of Hazardous and other Wastes aka Basel Convention Regional Centre Pretoria

party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes ( Basel Convention ), Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection ( Montreal Protocol ), Ship Pollution ( MARPOL 73 / 78 ), Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands ( Ramsar Convention ), Whaling

* Higgs, L. ( 2004 ) A Description of Grammatical Features and Their Variation in the Black Country Dialect Schwabe Verlag Basel.

Their next game was away to Dinamo Zagreb in which Basel earned a valuable away point thanks to on form goalkeeper Franco Costanzo who kept the game at 0 – 0 for 90 minutes.

Their affiliate EHC Basel Sharks competes in the National League B.

Compare Basel German Khind ( usually spelled Kind ), pronounced more or less as Standard German Kind, with Chind with initial, used in all other Swiss German dialects, with the exception of the dialect of Chur.

In 1019 the construction of the cathedral of Basel ( known locally as the Münster ) began under German Emperor Heinrich II.

:: the demonstration of this equality is known as the Basel problem.

In 1377 the cities of Freiburg, Basel, Colmar, and Breisach entered into an alliance known as the Genossenschaft des Rappenpfennigs ( Rappenpfennig Collective ).

Franz Marc's best-known painting is probably Tierschicksale ( also known as Animal Destinies or Fate of the Animals ), which hangs in the Kunstmuseum Basel.

Jean Felix Piccard ( Basel, Switzerland, January 28, 1884 – January 28, 1963, Minneapolis, Minnesota ), also known as Jean Piccard, was a Swiss-born American chemist, engineer, professor and high-altitude balloonist.

* 1501: Contract with Basel of which the number of copies is known to be 11, corresponding to the 11 seals.

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.

The Bernoulli family from Basel is known for their significant contributions to mathematics over a time span of three generations.

Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel.

FC Basel is known for having a big and loyal local following.

The city that we now know as Jerusalem was known prior to the 17th century as the nondescript Ottoman village of Al-Quds, where biblical " Palestine " is actually the Palatina, along the Rhine, between Basel, where Erasmus Rotterdamus wrote the " New Testament ", and his hometown Rotterdam.

He traveled on April 2, 1786, to the modern-day Dubrovnik ( a vassal city of the Ottoman Empire, then better known with other, Italian name Ragusa ), and then to Constantinople in Turkey ( until September 23, 1786 ), Russia, ( from September 26, 1786 until September 7, 1787, slightly under one year ), Sweden, ( in Stockholm as from September 10, 1787 until November 2, 1787 ), Norway, from November 10, 1787 until departing from Karlskrona in Sweden from December 17, 1787 ), Denmark ( from September 23, 1787 until March 10, 1788 after being received in Denmark orders of capture from Spain no later than January 22, 1788 ), the Free Hanseatic Town of Hamburg, ( from ( April 1, 1788 until the April 27, 1788 ), the Free Town of Bremen, ( leaving on April 27 ), Holland, ( from around the May 2, 1788 until around June 16, 1788 ), some actual Belgian towns and German cities along the Rhine river, Swiss Basel, ( arrival July 30, 1788, and then again after touring German-speaking Switzerland on October 12, 1788 ), Swiss Geneva ( arrival September 25, 1788 ), and France, ( entry around the 3rd and 4th weeks of September 1788, two stays in Marseilles, the second departing there towards Bordeaux on February 26, 1789 via inland waterways ), travels to Rouen, Le Havre and Paris around May 5, 1789, getting papers as " Mr. Meeroff from Livonia " to arrive in Dover, ( England ) and then London on June 19, 1789, taking lodgings at the house of his British friend, " A Barlow ", at 47 Jermyn Street ).

Hofmann followed Emil Ruder as head of the graphic design department at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel ( Basel School of Design ) and was instrumental in developing the graphic design style known as the Swiss Style.

The first English school, known as the Basel German Mission English School, was started on 1 March 1856 at Thalassery.

The Programme is named after the Dutch philosopher Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, known as an opponent of dogmatism, who lived and worked in many places in Europe to expand his knowledge and gain new insights, and who left his fortune to the University of Basel in Switzerland.

* Village-Neuf, a commune in the Haut-Rhin département ( part of the Basel urban area ), formerly known as Neudorf in German

His best known painting is Pestalozzi bei den Waisen von Stans, shown today in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung ( the Museum of Art ) of Basel.

The latest capital adequacy framework is commonly known as Basel III.

Located on the south bank of the Rhine river about 20 km east of Basel near the villages of Augst and Kaiseraugst, it is the oldest known Roman colony on the Rhine.

It is not known, if Gamper chose the legendary club colours, blaugrana, after FC Basel.