3. The international reaction to welfare and pollution regarding scrapping – some basics(1) For an extensive overview, see Alla Pozdnakova: Ship recycling regulation under international and EU law, SIMPLY 2019 (= MarIus No. 535, 2020) pp. 53‑79.
The problems relating to scrapping and more generally of waste and pollution have been discussed internationally over a long period. As regards the scrapping of ships, there are two conventions of particular interest:
(i) the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, of 1989 (revised in 2019)
- with Technical Guidelines for Decommissioning of Ships (adopted by IMO, 2003); an d
(ii) the Hong Kong Convention for the safe and environmentally sound recirculation of ships, of 2009.
Of particular importance for Norway are the EU-rules that have been made part of our national law – in our con
(i) Waste Shipment Regulation (EU) No 1013/2006, based on the Basel Convention – often called the cross border regulation; and
(ii) Ship Recycling Regulation (EU) No 1257/2013, based on the Hong Kong Convention.