The major achievement from this project can be classified into seven aspects as follows. 1. Participation in the discussion of E-Waste related issues at the global and regional levels The latest progresses of the Basel Convention Partnership Programme, including MPWG and PACE as well as the conclusions from E-waste related meetings in Asia-Pacific region have been continuously collected and summarized. 2. Providing legal advises on the regulations regarding the transboundary movement of waste (TBM) to The Environmental Protection Administration, including: (1) Summarizing of the application and authorization regulations on TBM in Taiwan (2) Analyzing of the regulations of Basel Convention, OECD and EU on TBM. (3) The statistics of the generated and permitted amounts for TBM of 42 exported waste items from Taiwan in 2006. (4) The comparison of TBM regulations among Taiwan, Basel Convention, OECD and EU. (5) Amending the draft articles of Waste Management Act regarding waste TBM. (6) The interpretation of TBM related declaratory statutes and suggestions for the qualifications of treatment plants aboard, financial guarantee, recognition of documents and prohibited waste items. 3. Promoting bilateral agreements, including: (1) Collecting bilateral, multilateral, or regional agreements regarding Basel Convention. (2) Interpreting the contents of bilateral agreements between Canada and the USA and the articles of bilateral agreement between Philippine and the USA as references for the government. 4. Case studies of transboundary movement of waste, including: (1) Custom examination for current waste items, draft of waste identification procedure and principles and case studies of waste identification. (2) Lessons learned from the case of hazardous waste dumping in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. 5. Responding to the decisions of the Basel Convention Three meetings with Basel Convention Expert Committee were organized. In which, discussed issues include EU and OECD TBM regulations, revision of the manual for controlling of waste transboundary movements and reporting of four international conferences regarding Basel Convention. Inquiry of the regulations on transboundary movement of waste of some OECD countries was also provided. Besides, analysis on the revision of China’s regulations was also completed. 6. Participating in the Basel Convention (BC) activities. In 2007, we participated in four face-to-face conferences with four papers presented: (1) the second International Conference on Waste Management and Technology in Beijing, China, (2) the 6th Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG6) in Geneva, Switzerland, (3) the 3rd Expert Meeting on Solid Waste Management in Asia and Pacific – for networking of experts in Okayama, Japan and (4) the 4th NIES E-Waste Conference in Tsukuba, Japan. 7. Collecting and promoting BC related information. We have completed and evaluated 150 news, articles, reports and papers regarding the Basel Convention, and, updated both Chinese and English Basel Convention information websites for 27 times (http://wm.epa.gov.tw/web/index.htm). The manual for controlling transboundary movement of waste in the digital format was also revised.

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