3. Obligations arising from cross-border transfers

For example, the case of the dioxin-contaminated drums following the Seveso accident (explosion of a chemical reactor producing herbicides on July 10, 1976) was one of the factors triggering reflection on this topic. At the end of August 1982, dioxin-contaminated chemical waste from Seveso, previously stored in an Icmesa reactor, was transferred in 41 drums from Italy to Switzerland (Basel) for incineration by the Ciba company.

In May 1983, they were discovered in a disused abattoir in northern France (Anguilcourt-le-Sart), where they had been illegally...