- 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;
- bulk finished form
includes all metallic non-dispersible forms of the scrap listed therein;
- collector
means any natural or legal person carrying out waste collection as defined in Article 3, point (10), of Directive 2008/98/EC;
- competent authority
means:
- competent authority of destination
means the competent authority for the area to which the shipment is carried out or is planned to be carried out 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 initiated or from which it is planned that the shipment will be initiated;
- competent authority of transit
means the competent authority for any country, other than the country of the competent authority of dispatch and the competent authority of destination, through which the shipment is carried out or is planned to be carried out;
- consignee
means any natural or legal person under the national 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 is carried out or is planned to be carried out 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 is initiated or is planned to be initiated;
- country of transit
means any country, other than the country of dispatch or destination, through which a shipment is carried out or is planned to be carried out;
- customs office of entry
means the customs office of first entry as defined in Article 1, point (15), of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446;
- customs office of exit
means a customs office of exit as determined in accordance with Article 329 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447;
- customs office of export
means a customs office of export as defined in Article 1, point (16), of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446;
- environmentally sound management
means taking all practicable steps to ensure that waste is managed in a manner that will protect human health, the climate and the environment against adverse effects which can result from such waste;
- export
means any exit of waste from the Union but excludes transit through the Union;
- illegal shipment
means any shipment carried out:
- import
means any entry of waste into the Union but excludes transit through the Union;
- inspection
means any action undertaken by an authority to check compliance with the requirements set out in this Regulation;
- interim disposal
means any disposal operations listed under D8, D9, D13, D14 or D15 in Annex I to Directive 2008/98/EC;
- interim recovery
means any recovery operations listed under R12 or R13 in Annex II to Directive 2008/98/EC;
- mixture of wastes
means waste that results from an intentional or unintentional mixing of two or more different wastes which are: Waste shipped in a single shipment of wastes, consisting of two or more wastes, where each waste is separated, is not a mixture of wastes;
- notifier
means:
- overseas countries and territories
means the overseas countries and territories listed in Annex II to the TFEU;
- person who arranges the shipment
means any of the following natural or legal persons under the national jurisdiction of the country of dispatch, who carries out or plans to carry out a shipment as referred to in Article 4(4) or (5), or who has or plans to have such a shipment carried out:
- route
means the itinerary between the location where the shipment starts in the country of dispatch, via the point of exit from and the point of entry into each country concerned, to the treatment facility in the country of destination.
- routing
means the point of exit from and the point of entry into each country concerned, including customs offices of entry, exit and export;
- shipment
means a transport of waste destined for recovery or disposal from the location from which the transport starts until the receipt of the waste by the facility that carries out the disposal or recovery in the country of destination and which is carried out or planned to be carried out:
- transit
means a shipment through one or more countries other than the country of dispatch or destination;
- transport of waste
means the carriage of waste by road, rail, air, sea or inland waterways;
- waste hierarchy
means the waste hierarchy referred to in Article 4 of Directive 2008/98/EC;