Chapter 1, Article 4 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1290

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Article 4Declaration on how to access the central system#

1.By 3 February 2026, competent authorities shall declare to the Commission how they and users representing operators with a registered office in their Member State shall access the central system. For the purposes of such declaration, the competent authorities shall complete the form set out in Annex I to this Regulation.

2.After the date referred to in paragraph 1, a competent authority may change the declaration, in which case this authority shall submit to the Commission the revised declaration. The new rules on how to access the central system, indicated in the revised declaration shall start to apply 20 working days after the submission of the revised declaration, provided that the conditions set out in Articles 5 and 11 are met, unless the competent authority indicates, in the revised declaration, a specific date after 20 working days from the submission of the revised declaration.

3.A competent authority may indicate in the declaration referred to in paragraph 1 that this authority uses its local system only for the purpose of exchanging data, information and documents concerning the following:

(a)shipments of waste referred to in Article 4(1), (2) and (3) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157;

(b)shipments of waste referred to in Article 4(4) and (5) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157;

(c)approving and refusing the requests of recovery facilities for pre-consent, as well as revoking pre-consents referred to in Article 14(8) and (10) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157.

4.Where, in its declaration, a competent authority includes the indication referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article, local system operated by this authority shall not be required to comply with the following requirements of this Regulation:

(a)Article 11(5) and (12), Article 15(5) and Article 16 where the declaration is made pursuant to paragraph 3, point (a) of this Article;

(b)Article 11(5) and (12), Article 15(1) to (4), Article 15(6) to (8), Article 16, Article 17(5) to (11) and Article 17(13) and (14), where the declaration is made pursuant to paragraph 3, point (b) of this Article;

(c)Article 10, Article 11(5) and (12), Article 14, Article 15, Article 17(2), (3) and (5) to (14), where the declaration is made pursuant to paragraph 3, point (c) of this Article.

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Annex VII
means Annex VII to the Regulation (EU) 2024/1157, that is used for shipments of waste subject to the general information requirements referred to in Article 18 of that Regulation;
Annex VII document number
means the number assigned in the systems to a specific submission of information in accordance with the form set out in Annex VII of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157;
API
means the technical interface used for machine-to-machine connection, that allows access to the central system;
authorities
means the competent authorities defined in Article 3, point (9), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 and authorities involved in inspections;
Boolean
means that the value shall be either ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
box of Annex I
refers to box of Annex I of the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/2571.
CA
means competent authority;
central system
means a digital system for shipments of waste referred to in Article 27(3) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 and operated by the Commission;
Economic Operator Registration and Identification number (EORI number)
means ‘Economic Operator Registration and Identification number (EORI number)’ as defined in Article 1, point (18), of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446;
eFTI platform
means eFTI platform as defined in Article 3, point (10), of Regulation (EU) 2020/1056 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
Facility
means a facility receiving waste or a consignee.
GUI
means the visual interface used to access the central system directly through a website that is operated by the Commission as a part of the central system;
inspection system
means a system that is operated by an inspection authority in a Member State or by the Commission, for the purposes of retrieving information and documents referred to in Article 27(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 and that connects with the central system through an API;
interim facility
means a facility that carries out interim recovery or interim disposal operations of waste;
local system
means a system that is operated by a competent authority in accordance with Article 27(4) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 and that connects with the central system through an API;
movement document number
means the number assigned in the systems to a specific submission of information in accordance with the movement document set out in Annex IB to the Regulation (EU) 2024/1157;
operator
means any natural or legal person, who carries out, plans to carry out or is involved in carrying out a shipment of waste, and acts as a notifier, a person who arranges a shipment, a carrier, a consignee, a waste producer or a waste management facility, irrespective of whether this person acts in a professional capacity or not, excluding competent authorities and authorities involved in inspections;
PIC
means the procedure of prior written notification, as referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157;
PWAS
means a person who arranges the shipment;
site
means a location of an operator having a different address or name from the address or name indicated by such operator during their first registration in the systems or software, that is allowed under the respective national law to use the same main identification number as the operator concerned;
software
means any software other than the central system or local system, which is used for the purpose of submitting and exchanging information and documents referred to in Article 27(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 and that connects with the central system via an API;
subsequent interim or non-interim facility located in the country of destination
means a facility that carries out interim or non-interim recovery or interim or non-interim disposal operations of waste after it was shipped pursuant to Article 15(5) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157.
systems
means the central system and the local systems;
user
means any natural person using the central system, local system or other software;
UUID
means a label uniquely identifying data elements and the relationship between them;
Validated
means that the systems are required to automatically verify the data provided in a given field;
working day
means any day from Monday to Friday excluding 1 January, 1 May, 15 August, 1 November, 25 December, 26 December.