44It should be emphasised that, since, as recitals 3 and 5 of Regulation No 1013/2006 state, it is apparent from Decision 93/98 that the European Union approved the Basel Convention and that Regulation No 1013/2006 incorporated the content of the OECD decision harmonising the list of wastes with that convention, the provisions of the Basel Convention became part of the EU legal order from the date on which the European Union became a party to that convention. In that context, and in the light of the principle of the primacy of international agreements concluded by the European Union over instruments of secondary law, Regulation No 1013/2006 must be interpreted, as far as possible, in a manner that is consistent with the Basel Convention (see, to that effect, judgment of 11 April 2013, HK Danmark, C‑335/11 and C‑337/11, EU:C:2013:222, paragraphs 29 and 30 and the case-law cited).
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