- area under the national jurisdiction of a country
means any land or marine area within which a state exercises administrative and regulatory responsibility in accordance with international law as regards the protection of human health or the environment;
- Basel Convention
means the Basel Convention of 22 March 1989 on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal;
- bulk finished form
includes all metallic non-dispersible forms of the scrap listed therein;
- competent authority
means:
- competent authority of destination
means the competent authority for the area to which the shipment is planned or takes place, or in which waste is loaded prior to recovery or disposal in an area not under the national jurisdiction of any country;
- competent authority of dispatch
means the competent authority for the area from which the shipment is planned to be initiated or is initiated;
- competent authority of transit
means the competent authority for any country, other than that of the competent authority of dispatch or destination, through which the shipment is planned or takes place;
- consignee
means the person or undertaking under the jurisdiction of the country of destination to whom or to which the waste is shipped for recovery or disposal;
- country of destination
means any country to which a shipment of waste is planned or takes place for recovery or disposal therein, or for the purpose of loading prior to recovery or disposal in an area not under the national jurisdiction of any country;
- country of dispatch
means any country from which a shipment of waste is planned to be initiated or is initiated;
- country of transit
means any country, other than the country of dispatch or destination, through which a shipment of waste is planned or takes place;
- environmentally sound management
means taking all practicable steps to ensure that waste is managed in a manner that will protect human health and the environment against adverse effects which may result from such waste;
- export
means the action of waste leaving the Community but excluding transit through the Community;
- illegal shipment
means any shipment of waste effected:
- import
means any entry of waste into the Community but excluding transit through the Community;
- individual shipment
refers to a single notification and ‘multiple shipments’ to a general notification.
- inspection
means actions undertaken by the authorities involved to ascertain whether an establishment, an undertaking, a broker, a dealer, a shipment of waste or the related recovery or disposal complies with the relevant requirements set out in this Regulation.
- interim disposal
means disposal operations D 13 to D 15 as defined in Annex II A to Directive 2006/12/EC;
- interim recovery
means recovery operations R 12 and R 13 as defined in Annex II B to Directive 2006/12/EC;
- mixture of wastes
means waste that results from an intentional or unintentional mixing of two or more different wastes and for which mixture no single entry exists in Annexes III, IIIB, IV and IVA.
- notifier
means:
- overseas countries and territories
means the overseas countries and territories as listed in Annex IA to Decision 2001/822/EC;
- shipment
means the transport of waste destined for recovery or disposal which is planned or takes place:
- transit
means a shipment of waste or a planned shipment of waste through one or more countries other than the country of dispatch or destination;
- transport
means the carriage of waste by road, rail, air, sea or inland waterways;