Order — ECLI:EU:C:2013:173
Date: 2013-03-14
Language of the case: Dutch
Court formation: First Chamber
Subject matter: Environment;Waste
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling - inadmissible
Origin: Netherlands

Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank te Rotterdam (Netherlands) lodged on 18 May 2012 - Criminal proceedings against EBS Le relais Nord-Pas-De-Calais (Case C-240/12) Language of the case: Dutch Referring court Rechtbank te Rotterdam Party to the main proceedings EBS Le relais Nord-Pas-De-Calais Questions referred Where waste is shipped by vessel from an EU Member State (in this case France) to a State in which the OECD-Decision does not apply (in this case the United Arab Emirates), is there 'transit' within the meaning of the former 2 and the new  Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR) if under way the vessel puts in at a port of another EU Member State (in this case the Port of Rotterdam)? Does it make any difference to the answer to question 1 if: there is storage and/or transhipment of that waste at that port and/or that waste is taken ashore and/or that waste is declared for import at customs? ____________ 1 - Council Regulation (EEC) No 259/93 of 1 February 1993 on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Community (former WSR) (OJ 1993 L 30, p. 1) 2 - Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 on shipments of waste (new WSR) (OJ 2006 L 190, p. 1)