Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of 14 June 2006 on shipments of waste. Generation, treatment and transboundary shipment of hazardous waste and other waste in the Member States of the European Union, 2010-2012

Transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal are governed by the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal of 22 March 1989 to which the European Union (EU) is a Party. The overarching objective of the Convention is to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects of hazardous wastes.

The EU has set up a system for the supervision and control of shipments of waste within its borders together with the countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and other third countries that are parties of the Basel Convention. Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 on Shipments of Waste (hereby referred to as the Regulation) transposes the Convention into Union law. The Regulation which is directly applicable in the Member States was amended in 2014 by Regulation (EU) No 660/2014.

Each calendar year, Member States submit a report to the Convention Secretariat for the previous calendar year which addresses legal provisions, implementation and environmental protection measures. The report is also sent to the Commission along with additional information in the form of a reply to an Implementation Questionnaire. As per article 51.4 of the Regulation, every three years, the Commission draws up an Implementation Report based on the replies submitted by the Member States. In this case, the cut-off date for Member States to send the information pertaining to 2010-12 to Eurostat was 18 June 2014.

This is the fourth Implementation Report and covers the period 2010-2012. The third report, covering the 2007-2009 period, was published in August 2012. Detailed information based on the Member States' report to the Basel Convention for 2010-2012 can be found in Sections A and B of the staff working document (SWD) accompanying this report. In addition, Member States' replies to the Implementation Questionnaire for 2010-2012 can be found in Section E of the SWD. Quantitative data and figures on generation, treatment and shipment of waste are summarised in the tables and figures of Section A of the SWD. Key definitions are provided in Appendix A.1.0 to the SWD.

EUR-Lex: SWD(2015)291: Commission Staff Working Document accompanying the report http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=SWD:2015:291:FIN

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