Press Release: Waste exports: Better protection for developing countries

The Revised Green List Regulation 1418/2007 came into effect on 18 December 2007. The Regulation, which covers the export of non-hazardous recyclable materials from the EU, was updated to formally record the wishes of countries outside the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that had expressed an opinion about the recyclable materials they would like to receive. The EC Regulation is given full effect in the UK by the Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations 2007, which set out offences and penalties and designate the competent authorities for enforcing the Waste Shipments Regulation in the UK. The Transfrontier Shipment of Waste (Amendment) Regulations 2008 create offences for failure to comply with the requirements of the Green List Regulation.