Relationships

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Relationships
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Legislative Interrelationships
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Basel Convention Annex IX questionnaire

• Basel Convention not only Hazardous Wastes !

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Annex IX - responses
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Basel Convention Annex IX questionnaire
Inconsistencies are found in responses from all
non-OECD countries except Argentina.
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Revision of the EUs Waste Shipment Regulations

• legislation that will apply directly to 25
  Countries and affect trade in  wastes  with all
  other countries in the world
• Burdensome demand for statistical data
• Business confidentiality security issues
• Depending on National Legislation business
  information will be published on the Internet
• Imposition of EU standards on non-EU facilities
• European Parliament 2nd reading
• - Plenary debate last night
• - Plenary vote today

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Europe protectionist ?
Proposed Amendment 4 Recital 20 (20) In the case
of shipments of waste destined for recovery, it
should be possible for Member States to implement
the principles of self-sufficiency, proximity and
priority for re-use ....
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Burdensome demand for duplicative statistical data
Amendment 24 Article 10, paragraph 4 a (new) 4a.
The facility that receives the waste shall keep
incoming and outgoing volume records for each
specific treatment line and for each sub-section
of each treatment line.
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Burdensome demand for duplicative statistical data
Amendment 25 Article 10, paragraph 4 b (new) 4b.
The authorities of dispatch or destination may
require the receiving plant to issue a regular
(e.g. monthly) input/output balance of the
specific treatment line, which must be signed by
the person legally responsible for the plant and
sent within one month to the relevant
authorities
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Business confidentiality / security issues
Internet Publication
Amendment 67 Article 49 a (new) Article
49a Public access to notifications The competent
authority of the exporting or importing Member
State shall make publicly available by
appropriate means, such as the Internet, all
non-confidential information (in accordance with
Community and national legislation) submitted in
relation to notifications of shipments it has
received, or consented to, letters of consent,
and all related documents, 30 days after having
received such notifications or at the latest 7
days after consent was given.
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Business confidentiality / security issues
Internet Publication
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Business confidentiality issues Internet
Publication
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Business confidentiality issues Internet
Publication
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Business confidentiality issues Internet
Publication
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Business confidentiality issues Internet
Publication
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Business confidentiality issues Internet
Publication
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New note verbale questionnaire

• The 1999 note verbale questionnaire from the
  Commission asked what non-hazardous wastes
  non-OECD countries wished to import and any
  controls they wished applied
• Since 1999 the non-OECD Countries could request
  either
• A ban on imports
• Article 15 Controls
• Red Controls (PIC)
• Amber Controls
• Normal Commercial Transactions (Green controls)
• BIR has had success in getting the number of
  control procedures reduced to
• A ban on imports
• Red Controls (PIC)
• Normal Commercial Transactions (Green controls)

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New note verbale questionnaire

• The 2006 note verbale questionnaire from the
  Commission will again ask what non-hazardous
  wastes non-OECD countries wish to import and any
  controls they wish applied, e.g.
• A ban on imports
• Red Controls (PIC)
• Normal Commercial Transactions (Green controls)
• The non-OECD countries need to be aware that EU
  Member States may refuse a notification if their
  non-OECD facilities are not up to EU Standards.
  Asking for controls on non-hazardous wastes may
  risk not receiving recyclables from the EU

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Activities of the BIR-IEC

• Conclusion.
• There is work to do to explain to Member State
  experts how unacceptable the proposed Parliament
  Amendments are with respect to Internet
  notification publication and statistics demands
• There is work to be done to prepare for a new
  round of note verbale questionnaires in 2006 to
  non-OECD Countries. If any non-OECD Countries ask
  for controls (requiring notification) and their
  facilities are not up to EU Standards they risk
  not receiving recyclables from the EU.