For Official Use C(2008)156

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COUNCIL 

 

Council 

DRAFT DECISION OF THE COUNCIL AMENDING THE APPENDICES 3, 4 AND 8 OF THE 

DECISION OF THE COUNCIL ON THE CONTROL OF TRANSBOUNDARY MOVEMENTS OF 

WASTES DESTINED FOR RECOVERY OPERATIONS [C(2001)107/FINAL] 

(Note of the Secretary-General) 

This document is submitted to Council for approval under the written procedure. 

For more information, please contact Henrik Harjula, National Policies Division, Environment 

Directorate, tel: +33 1 45 24 98 18, email: Henrik.Harjula@oecd.org 

JT03253545 

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1. This note describes amendments to the Council Decision on the Control of Transboundary 

Movements of Wastes Destined for Recovery Operations [C(2001)107/FINAL], which the Working Group 

on Waste Prevention and Recycling (WGWPR) agreed on at its 11th meeting (10-11 April 2008). The

changes agreed do not change the main text of the Council Decision, they relate to the Appendices of the 

Decision. 

2. The majority of the changes made to the OECD Council Decision [C(2001)107/FINAL] reflect 

changes agreed in the Basel Convention. To ensure the compatibility of the OECD instrument with the 

Basel Convention, provisions in the OECD Decision state that amendments made to Annexes II, VIII and 

IX of the Basel Convention (i.e. to the lists of wastes) will be incorporated into Appendices 3 and 4 of the 

OECD Decision (i.e. Green and Amber lists of wastes) once they have been agreed to by OECD Member 

countries. Amendments stemming from changes in the Basel Convention are listed in Section I below. 

3. In very rare cases, it may also be necessary to adjust the OECD lists of wastes solely for the 

OECD purposes and independently from the Basel Convention. Such changes may be needed due to 

changing technologies. Amendments related to changes which are independent from the Basel Convention 

are described in Section II below. 

SECTION I: 

4. This section describes Basel amendments (COP7, October 2004 and COP8, December 2006) on 

which all OECD Member countries have agreed [ENV/EPOC/WGWPR(2002)9/REV2, Scenario No 1]. 

The Working Party on National Environmental Policies, the Environment Policy Committee, the Trade 

Committee and the Council shall be informed of these changes through a note describing the amendments. 

I.1) At its meeting in April 2008 [ENV/EPOC/WGWPR/M(2008)1], the WGWPR endorsed 

the change made at the Basel COP7 to the French wording of item A3120, so as to make it 

consistent with the English wording. Consequently, the present French wording of A3120: 

“Résidus de broyage automobile (fraction légère: peluche, étoffe, déchets de plastique, etc.) shall 

be replaced with: « A3120 Fraction légère des résidus de broyage ». 

I.2) At COP 8, Parties to the Basel Convention amended the forms used for “notification” 

and “movement” documents of waste shipments, as well as instructions for completing these 

forms. These forms accompany all shipments of hazardous waste crossing national borders. The 

Basel Convention, the EU Waste Shipment Regulation, and OECD Decision C(2001)107/FINAL 

(Annex 8) all include these forms in their control system for transboundary movements of waste. 

To harmonise procedures among these three systems, the WGWPR agreed at its April 2008 

meeting to amend the OECD forms (and the instructions for completing them)1

, based on the 

changes made at Basel COP8 (December 2006). 

SECTION II:

5. This section describes five amendments to the OECD Waste Lists for the purposes of OECD 

Member countries [ENV/EPOC/WGWPR(2002)9/REV2, Scenario No 3]. These changes have to be 

endorsed by the Environment Policy Committee and adopted by the Council. The Working Party on 

National Environmental Policies and the Trade Committee shall be informed of these changes; 

II.1) At its December 2005 meeting, the WGWPR agreed to amend the original wording of 

item B1030: “B1030: Refractory metals containing residues” to read : “B1030: Residues 

containing refractory metals”. As this amendment concerning a Basel entry is still pending 

 

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approval by the Basel Convention, the WGWPR recommended that it should be mentioned under 

Part I (c) of Appendix 3 of the OECD Decision. 

 II.2 and II.3) At its September 2006 meeting, the WGWPR agreed to amend the translation of 

three items in the French lists of wastes relating to slags from the iron and steel industry, since 

the incorrect translations were resulting in unnecessary restrictions on trade in recyclable 

materials. (These modifications do not affect the English waste lists). 

 Consequently, Basel entries B1200 and B1210 shall now read in French:

 “B1200 : Laitier (scorie) granulé provenant de l’industrie sidérurgique » ; and 

 « B1210 : Laitiers (scories) provenant de l’industrie sidérurgique, y compris les laitiers 

(scories) utilisés comme source de dioxyde de titane et de vanadium.” 

 It should be noted that these amendments concern Basel wastes which are not explicitly 

listed under the OECD Decision, but only referenced in Part I of Appendix 3. 

 II.4) The third modified waste entry (AA010) is an OECD-specific entry on the OECD Amber 

list of wastes (Appendix 4 to C(2001)107/FINAL) (i.e. not part of the Basel lists of wastes). It 

was agreed to amend the original French wording of: “ AA010: Laitiers, battitures et autres 

déchets de la fabrication du fer et de l’acier” to read 

“AA010: Produits d’écumage, battitures et autres déchets provenant de l’industrie 

sidérurgique”. 

 II.5) At its April 2008 meeting, the WGWPR agreed to amend the English wording of entry 

AA010 by replacing “manufacture of iron and steel” with “iron and steel industry”. 

 AA010 shall now read in English: “AA010 Dross, scalings and other wastes from the 

iron and steel industry”.

6. On 11 August 2008, the Environment Policy Committee noted the amendments described in 

Section I and endorsed the amendments described in Section II, as noted in ENV/EPOC(2008)29 and 

agreed to their submission to the OECD Council for information (Section I amendments) and for adoption 

(Section II amendments). The Working Party on National Environmental Policies and the Trade 

Committee have been informed of these amendments. 

Proposed Action 

7. In the light of the preceding, the Secretary-General invites the Council to adopt the following 

draft conclusions: 

 THE COUNCIL 

a) noted document C(2008)156; 

b) noted the amendments to Appendices 3, 4 and 8 of the OECD Decision on the 

Control of Transboundary Movements of Wastes Destined for Recovery 

Operations [C(2001)107/FINAL] described in Section I of document 

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c) adopted the amendments to Appendices 3, 4 of the OECD Decision on the 

control of Transboundary Movements of Wastes Destined for Recovery 

Operations [C(2001)107/FINAL] described in Section II of document 

C(2008)156.