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Article 8 Protocol betreffende milieubescherming bij het Verdrag inzake Antarctica

to the Protocol on environmental protection to the Antarctic Treaty

1 Each Party which itself conducts activities in the Antarctic Treaty area shall, in respect of those activities, establish a waste disposal classification system as a basis for recording wastes and to facilitate studies aimed at evaluating the environmental impacts of scientific activity and associated logistic support. To that end, wastes produced shall be classified as:

a) sewage and domestic liquid wastes (Group 1);

b) other liquid wastes and chemicals, including fuels and lubricants (Group 2);

c) solids to be combusted (Group 3);

d) other solid wastes (Group 4); and

e) radioactive material (Group 5).

2 In order to reduce further the impact of waste on the Antarctic environment, each such Party shall prepare and annually review and update its waste management plans (including waste reduction, storage and disposal), specifying for each fixed site, for field camps generally, and for each ship (other than small boats that are part of the operations of fixed sites or of ships and taking into account existing management plans for ships):

a) programmes for cleaning up existing waste disposal sites and abandoned work sites;

b) current and planned waste management arrangements, including final disposal;

c) current and planned arrangements for analysing the environmental effects of waste and waste management; and

d) other efforts to minimise any environmental effects of wastes and waste management.

3 Each such Party shall, as far as is practicable, also prepare an inventory of locations of past activities (such as traverses, fuel depots, field bases, crashed aircraft) before the information is lost, so that such locations can be taken into account in planning future scientific programmes (such as snow chemistry, pollutants in lichens or ice core drilling).

Regeling
Protocol betreffende milieubescherming bij het Verdrag inzake Antarctica
Soort
Verdrag
Geldend vanaf
08-12-2016
BWB-id
BWBV0001835
Versie
2016-12-08_0

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