. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EU/39 
26 April 2012  
 (12-2213) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :   
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Recovered paper. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation establishing criteria determining when recovered pape r ceases to be waste under 
Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament an d of the Council (10 pages, in English).     
6. Description of content:  This draft regulation establishes crit eria on the quality of recovered 
paper in order for it to cease to be waste.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Recovered paper which has undergone a recovery  operation, does not display any hazardous 
properties and is free of foreign materials ceases to be waste and can be used as feedstock in 
in paper mills. The importer to the EU has to ensure compliance with the criteria.  G/TBT/N/EU/39 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council 
of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certai n Directives ( OJ L 312, 22.11.2008, 
p. 3-30)  
http://eurlex.europa.eu/Le xUriServ/LexUriServ.do?ur i=OJ:L:2008:312:0003:0030:EN:PDF  
European standard EN 643 on recovered paper and board  
Commission Decision 2000/532/EC of 3 May 2000 replacing ce rtain Decisions (OJ L 226, 
6.9.2000, p. 3–24) . 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2000:226:0003:0024:EN:PDF  
Annex IV of Regulation 850/2004/EC of the Eu ropean Parliament and of the Council of 29 
April 2004 on persistent organic polluta nts and amending Di rective 79/117/EEC. 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2004:158:0007:0049:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    October 2012 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU (transitional period of 6 months after 
publication)  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/EEC/12_1481_00_e.pdf