At the recent tenth Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, the parties adopted the so-called ‘Basel Bal’ which will ban export of waste from Annex VII countries (OECD, EU and Liechtenstein) to developing countries. The ban was originally adopted in 1995 at the Third Conference of the Parties but has since lingered on the fringes. Thanks to behind-the scenes work by Indonesia and Switzerland, however, the parties have now adopted the ban by virtue of inserting a new Article 4A into the Convention. Previously the Basel…