Senator CHAMARETTE(5.01 p.m.) —I move:

6.   Schedule 1, item 2, page 3 (lines 21 to 22), omit paragraph(b).

This amendment relates to the aims of the convention and to the article 11 inclusion in the aims. We did speak about it when we were discussing my first amendment in relation to another matter. To reiterate, article 11 is a tiny section of the convention that allows the minister to enter into a bilateral agreement with another country to determine that a hazardous waste is not a hazardous waste. This is by no means the overall aim of the Basel convention and therefore should not be stated as one of the overall aims of the bill. For that reason we wish to see that deleted. I assume the Minister for the Envi

ronment (Senator Hill) has not changed his mind since we last raised the matter.