Basel & Stockholm Conventions Regional Centre for Southeast Asia

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and their Disposal in Article 14 requires the establishment of Regional Centers for Training and Technology Transfer (BCRC). Furthermore, the Decision III/19 at Conference of the Parties (COP) III in 1995 selected Indonesia to host one of BCRCs. The Government of the Republic of Indonesia then signed the Framework Agreement on BCRC for Southeast Asia (BCRC-SEA) with the Secretariat of the Basel Convention (SBC) on 29 October 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Framework Agreement was later endorsed by Presidential Regulation No. 60/2005 on 12 October 2005 and it has since been amended twice for extension until 2029.

At the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Stockholm Convention (COP-6) in 2013, BCRC-SEA was endorsed as one of the Stockholm Convention Regional Centre (SCRC) and the mandate has been extended until 2023 by decision of COP-9 of the Stockholm Convention in 2019.

BCRC-SEA  & SCRC Indonesia is supported by 10 countries: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.