The hardcopy of the English version of the "Guidance Manual on the Preparation of National Health-Care Waste Management Plans in Sub-Saharan Countries" is now available from the Secretariat. To obtain a copy, please contact Nicole Dawe on Nicole.Dawe@unep.ch The electronic versions in English and in French are available under Guidelines & Manuals

Click the following link in order to access the list of the Basel Convention Legal, Technical and Scientific Guidelines, Guidance and Training Manuals available in electronic format

• Text of the Basel Convention
• Strategic Plan for the Implementation of the Basel Convention 2000-2010
• Basel Protocol on Liability and Compensation (text and related documents)
• Basel Declaration on Environmentally Sound Management (Ministerial Declaration)
• National Reporting (Statistics and Information on Reporting of Hazardous Wastes)
• Guide to Implementation of the Convention
• Annex VII Study
• Guide to the Control System
• Revised versions of the forms for the notification document and the movement document and related instructions adopted at COP8 (Word, PDF)
• Water brochure: What does the Basel Convention mean for WATER
• Technical guidance for environmentally sound management of specific waste streams: used and scrap personal computers (OECD document). English, French.
• Official Meeting Documents
• Publications from the UNEP online bookshop
• Revised versions of the forms for the notification document and the movement document and related instructions adopted at COP8 (Word, PDF). Previous versions of this document are also available
• Members of the Intersessional Working Group for the Forms for the Notification and the Movement Documents and Related Instructions
• List of Additional Publications (Alphabetical) (under construction)
• List of Additional Publications (SBC numbers) (under construction)

• A selection of information leaflets on issues of the Basel Convention provided by the Secretariat
• The Basel Convention at a glance. Also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish
• The Hazardous Chemicals and Wastes Conventions (Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions). Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
• Harmonized System Nomenclature including wastes and hazardous wastes
• Basel Ban
• Basel Basics (an overview)
• National Enforcement Requirements
• Environmentally Sound Management of Hazardous Wastes
• Regional and Sub-Regional Centers for Training and Technology Transfer
• Technical Assistance for Managing Hazardous Wastes
• Glossary of Terms

The Training Resource Pack for hazardous waste management in developing countries is a set of training materials available in electronic files for individual use and further adaptation. It is intended to assist in giving conference or lecture presentations of key topics in hazardous wastes as well as providing guidance in the organization of training workshops of various sorts.

The Training Resource Pack is available in English and Spanish although, as their size is more than 150MB, we do not recommend downloading them over a low speed connection

Vital Waste Graphics and Vital Waste Graphics II are publications initiated by the Basel Convention Secretariat and produced in partnership with the Division of Environmental Conventions (DEC) of UNEP, Grid-Arendal and the Division of Early Warning Assessment-Europe of UNEP