Progress
Not applicable

The indicator refers to the number of States (Parties) that have ratified, accepted, approved, or acceded to the following five Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). These agreements are regulated within the European Union, although the information required by the Secretariats of the respective Conventions is managed at the state level. The five agreements and their European legal bases are:

  1. on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal: Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 on shipments of waste

  2. Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade: Regulation (EU) No 649/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012, concerning the export and import of hazardous chemicals

  3. Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants: Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019, on persistent organic pollutants

  4. Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer: Regulation (EC) No 1005/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009, on substances that deplete the ozone layer

  5. Minamata Convention on Mercury: Regulation (EU) 2017/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2017, on mercury

Methodological sheet of the indicator available for the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country.

Available indicator

The Basque Country does not produce continuous official statistics using the indicator methodology.
Metadata last updated 2025/06/06

This section provides more information about the United Nations indicator or the European Union Sustainable Development Indicator, such as its rationale, international results, metadata, and other relevant statistics.

Rationale

The proposed indicator is process-oriented, focusing on compliance with the obligations that contribute to the overall target of achieving the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle.

It does not measure the quantity of chemicals in media and does not quantify adverse impacts on human health and the environment. The MEAs, however, were developed and adopted to address the most urgent challenges for human health and the environment and therefore, through the implementation of MEAs progress will be made to reduce release to air, water and soil as well as presence of hazardous chemicals in products.

Source: United Nations Statistics Division
International results

Parties meeting their commitments and obligations in transmitting information as required by Montreal Protocol on hazardous waste, and other chemicals (%) SG_HAZ_CMRMNTRL UNSTATS

Parties meeting their commitments and obligations in transmitting information as required by Rotterdam Convention on hazardous waste, and other chemicals (%) SG_HAZ_CMRROTDAM UNSTATS

Parties meeting their commitments and obligations in transmitting information as required by Basel Convention on hazardous waste, and other chemicals (%) SG_HAZ_CMRBASEL UNSTATS

Parties meeting their commitments and obligations in transmitting information as required by Stockholm Convention on hazardous waste, and other chemicals (%) SG_HAZ_CMRSTHOLM UNSTATS

Parties meeting their commitments and obligations in transmitting information as required by Minamata Convention on hazardous waste, and other chemicals (%) SG_HAZ_CMRMNMT UNSTATS
Link to UN metadata

Metadata 12-4-1.pdf
Back to top