After the initial Basel Convention was adopted in 1989, many organizations said the treaty didn’t do enough to address the disposal of waste from first world countries into the developing world, and pressed for an update, which eventually became 1995’s Basel Ban Amendment. The tweak — which was attacked by many industrial powers, including the U.S., Canada, and Japan — needed three decades before it was accepted by enough countries to go into effect. In August 2019, Croatia became the 97th country to ratify it, which transformed the updated stipulations into international law in December 2019.
The European Commission opened up an investigation into Sabre and Amadeus to see if the GDS's are restricting competition. Amadeus and Sabre are fully cooperating with the investigation. Sabre states that "it remains committed to offering competitive access for travel agencies to airline content.."
