EU and cross-border transportation of waste

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EU and cross-border transportation of waste

• Cologne, June 23rd, 2004

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Theory versus reality
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Who is Future Green

• One of Europes largest inkjet remanufacturers
• Emphasis on environment
• Awarded by various governments
• Well known at large companies
• ABN AMRO bank Heineken
• Dutch Tax office SHELL
• Police departments KLM
• UNICEF METRO

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Our motto Turning waste into value
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Locations per 1-4-2004
Factories in Netherlands Hungary Sales offices
and Cartridge Return Centres (CRCs)
in Netherlands Belgium Serbia-Montenegro Hungary
Austria Switzerland Italy
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Cross-border transportation

• 6 foreign companies
• International buying selling of empties

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What is waste

• Overall legislation in EU EVOA

• Regulation about supervision and control on the
  transportation of waste within, from and to the
  European Community

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Characteristics of a Eur. Regulation

• Directly applicable
• Binding for all parties concerned
• Works the same in all member-countries
• Will not be translated into national legislation,
  national decision making on items such as
• Financial security
• Penalties

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EU Regulation on the supervision and control of
shipments of waste

• This Community Regulation (EEG 259/93 of 1
  February 1993, in The Netherlands commonly
  referred to as EVOA) was implemented in 1994.
  This European regulation is aimed at overseeing
  flow of waste and at preventing unwanted removal
  - for instance to Third World countries.

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• The basic principle of the European policy is
  that waste materials have to be processed as much
  possible in their land of origin and in the
  nearest processing plant.  The export of waste
  materials can however not always be avoided. EVOA
  was set up by the European Union with the aim of
  harmonising the rules of exporting waste
  materials. The regulation outlines various
  procedures concerning cross-border trafficking of
  waste materials. The procedures to be followed
  depend on the kind of waste material, the sort of
  removal and the status of the country or
  countries involved in the actual cross-border
  trafficking.

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A definition of waste

• Each item of which the holder disposes of, wishes
  to dispose of or should dispose of.

• To dispose of can mean
• Final removal
• Useful application

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A wide definition

• Jurisprudence of the European Court of justice is
  binding.
• A product can be categorised as waste, even if it
  has commercial value
• Broken 2nd hand goods
• Inkjet cartridges

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Criteria non-waste 1

• Equal to primary raw material
• Same characteristics as raw material
• No other pollution than with a primary raw
  materials
• Can be used directly, without waste related
  pre-treatment, in a production process
• Used for the same purpose as the initial use

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Criteria non-waste 2

• Produced on purpose (no residue)
• No extra risk
• No extra precaution necessary
• No negative value
• Regular market

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And still

• Empty cartridges are considered waste ??

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3 kinds of waste

• Green list (toner cartridges)
• Yellow list (inkjet cartridges)
• Red list (mix of toner and inkjet cartridges)

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Cartridges according to EVOA and EURAL

• EVOA
• Toner cartridges Code GC 020
• Inkjet cartridges Code AD 070
• Eural (Overall listing of waste material)
• Toner cartridges 08 03 17-18
• Inkjet cartridges 08 03 12-13

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Procedures, theory versus reality

• Toner cartridges Green list, no permit needed
• Inkjet cartridges Yellow list, permit needed.
• But, for instance Hungary categorises Toner
  cartridges under yellow list, so permit is
  needed.

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No escape

• Not only the sender is responsible for the proper
  documentation and administration, so is the
  receiver

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Documents needed

• Notification
• Transport document

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Cross border transport NL-HU

• Start NL
• Through Germany and Austria
• End Hungary
• Permits needed NL, GER, AUS, HU

• http//www.europa.eu.int/eur-lex

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Hire an expert

• European rules are complicated and are not
  equally applied in all countries

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Thank you for your attention