Regulation 2008/669 - Completing Annex IC of Regulation 1013/2006 on shipments of waste - Main contents

official title

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 669/2008

of 15 July 2008

on completing Annex IC of Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on shipments of waste

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 on shipments of waste (1), and in particular Article 58(1)(a) thereof,

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex IC shall be completed as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 15 July 2008.

For the Commission

Stavros DIMAS

Member of the Commission

• (1) 

  OJ L 190, 12.7.2006, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1379/2007 (OJ L 309, 27.11.2007, p. 7).

• (2) 

  OJ L 114, 27.4.2006, p. 9.

ANNEX

‘ANNEX IC

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING THE NOTIFICATION AND MOVEMENT DOCUMENTS

• I. 

  Introduction

• 1. 

  The present instructions provide the necessary explanations for completing the notification and movement documents. Both documents are compatible with the Basel Convention (1), the OECD Decision (2) (which only covers shipments of wastes destined for recovery operations within the OECD area) and this Regulation, since they take into account the specific requirements set out in these three instruments. Because the documents have been made broad enough to cover all three instruments, however, not all blocks in the document will be applicable to all of the instruments and it therefore may not be necessary to complete all of the blocks in a given case. Any specific requirements relating to only one control system have been indicated with the use of footnotes. It is also possible that national implementing legislation may use terminology that differs from that adopted in the Basel Convention and the OECD Decision. For example, the term “shipment” is used in this Regulation instead of “movement” and the titles of the notification and movement documents therefore reflect this variation by employing the term “movement/shipment”.

• 2. 

  The documents include both the term “disposal” and “recovery”, because the terms are defined differently in the three instruments. The European Community Regulation and the OECD Decision use the term “disposal” to refer to disposal operations listed in Annex IV.A of the Basel Convention and Appendix 5.A of the OECD Decision and “recovery” for recovery operations listed in Annex IV.B of the Basel Convention and Appendix 5.B of the OECD Decision. In the Basel Convention itself, however, the term “disposal” is used to refer to both disposal and recovery operations.

• 3. 

  The competent authorities of dispatch are responsible for providing and issuing the notification and movement documents (in both paper and electronic versions). When doing so, they will use a numbering system, which allows a particular consignment of waste to be traced. The numbering system should be prefixed with the country code of the country of...

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