Chapter 1, Article 5 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1290

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Article 5User access obligations#

1.Users who represent operators or competent authorities acting in the roles referred to in Article 10(1), first subparagraph, points (a), (b) and (c) and points (e) to (g) shall only access the central system in the manner indicated in the declaration of the competent authority referred to in Article 4(1).

2.Users who represent operators acting only in the role referred to in Article 10(1), first subparagraph, point (d) shall access the central system through GUI or using an eFTI platform interconnected with the central system through an API.

3.Users who represent authorities involved in inspections acting in the role referred to in Article 10(1), first subparagraph, point (h) may access the central system in one of the following ways:

(a)through GUI;

(b)using an inspection system or Authority Access Point, as defined in Article 1, point (11), of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1942^note, that are interconnected with the central system through an API, where the requirements mentioned in Article 11(5), first subparagraph, are fulfilled;

(c)using an inspection system interconnected to an eFTI Gate, as defined in Article 1, point (12), of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1942, that is interconnected to the central system through an API, where the requirements mentioned in Article 11(5), first subparagraph, are fulfilled.

4.Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 1, 2 and 3, users representing operators may access the central system through API using software that allows such a connection under the following conditions:

(a)the software complies with the relevant requirements of this Regulation;

(b)it is indicated by a competent authority in the declaration submitted in accordance with Article 4(1) for exchanges of information and documents concerning shipments of waste, or certain shipments of waste.

5.Where the competent authority declares that this authority accesses the central system through the API, users representing that authority may still access the central system through GUI for the purposes of the following activities:

(a)API configuration;

(b)verification of whether the local system correctly interoperates with the central system.

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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.