Waste shipment legislation

The supervision and control of international waste shipments is based on many international agreements and conventions. For members of the European Community, the legal basis for waste shipments is Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on shipments of waste (EU regulation on shipment of waste).

Other important documents include the Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal, and the OECD Decision of the Council C(2001)107/FINAL concerning the control of transboundary movements of wastes destined for recovery operations. These agreements are incorporated in the EU regulation on shipments of waste. In Finnish national legislation, additional provisions for the shipment of waste have been made in the Waste Act.
 

• Consolidated regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on shipments of waste (EC) No 1013/2006 (Eur-Lex) (Includes Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/2174)
• Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/2174  amending Annexes IC, III, IIIA, IV, V, VII and VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 on shipments of waste (pdf, EurLex)
• Consolidated regulation (EC) No 1418/2007 on shipment of green waste into non-OECD countries (Eur-Lex) (Includes Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/1840)
  Commission regulation (EU) 2021/1840 amending regulation (EY) No 1418/2007 (pdf, EUR-Lex) (Date of effect 10.11.2021)
• Basel Convention (Basel Convention)
• OECD decision C(2001)107/FINAL (pdf, OECD)
• Commission implementing regulation (EU) 2016/1245 setting out a preliminary correlation table between CN codes and waste codes (pdf, Eur-Lex)