The European Parliament approved the proposal but the vote on the draft resolution was postponed under Article 60 (2) of the Rules of Procedure. The report by Mr Ivar VIRGIN (PPE, S) was therefore referred back to committee.
The amendments approved by plenary repeated the objectives of the Basle Convention in the recitals (ban on exports of hazardous waste from OECD countries to non-OECD countries for the purposes of recycling as of 1 January 1998). The European Parliament again pointed out that the definitions of hazardous waste all differ and deplored the fact that specifically Community definitions were not completely in line with the definitions in the Basle Convention. The European Parliament therefore called for the list of banned products in Community legislation to be revised and for the "Community" definitions of hazardous waste to be brought into line with the Basle Convention.�