The Waigani Convention

This governs the trans-boundary movement of hazardous waste in the South Pacific region. It prohibits the export of hazardous waste from New Zealand and Australia into the Convention area in the South Pacific, but does allow imports from the Pacific Island developing parties into New Zealand and Australia. New Caledonia and French Polynesia are French territories and so come under the Basel Convention, rather than the Waigani Convention.


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Last updated:15 March 2011