Case C-188/23, Conti 11. Container Schiffahrt II: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 21 January 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht München – Germany) – Land Niedersachsen v Conti 11. Container Schiffahrts-GmbH & Co. KG MS MSC Flaminia (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Environment – Shipment of waste – Directive 2006/12/EC – Directive 2008/98/EC – Concept of waste – Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal – Article 1(4) – Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 – Waste subject to the prior written notification and consent procedure – Shipments of waste within the European Union – Article 1(3)(b) – Validity – Interpretation in conformity with the Basel Convention – Waste generated on board a ship following damage sustained by it on the high seas – Concept of offloading of waste – Partial offloading of waste in a safe port)
Date: 2025-01-21
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: accidental pollution, dangerous substance, fire, hazardous waste, maritime shipping, pollution from ships, waste management








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C/2025/1513


17.3.2025






Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 21 January 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht München – Germany) – Land Niedersachsen v Conti 11. Container Schiffahrts-GmbH & Co. KG MS ‘MSC Flaminia’
               


(Case C-188/23,
                (1)
Conti 11. Container Schiffahrt II)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Environment - Shipment of waste - Directive 2006/12/EC - Directive 2008/98/EC - Concept of ‘waste’ - Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - Article 1(4) - Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 - Waste subject to the prior written notification and consent procedure - Shipments of waste within the European Union - Article 1(3)(b) - Validity - Interpretation in conformity with the Basel Convention - Waste generated on board a ship following damage sustained by it on the high seas - Concept of ‘offloading of waste’ - Partial offloading of waste in a safe port)
(C/2025/1513)
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Oberlandesgericht München

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: Land Niedersachsen

Defendant: Conti 11. Container Schiffahrts-GmbH & Co. KG MS ‘MSC Flaminia’
         

Operative part of the judgment

Article 1(3)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 on shipments of waste
must be interpreted as meaning that the exclusion from the scope of that regulation that that provision provides for, pertaining to the waste generated on board a ship following damage sustained by that ship on the high seas until that waste is offloaded in order to be recovered or disposed of, no longer applies to the waste which remains on board that ship in order for it to be shipped, together with that ship, for recovery or disposal, after part of that waste has been offloaded in a safe port in order to be recovered or disposed of, that interpretation being in conformity with Article 1(4) of the Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal, signed in Basel on 22 March 1989, approved on behalf of the European Economic Community by Council Decision 93/98/EEC of 1 February 1993.


(1)  
            OJ C 216, 19.6.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/1513/oj
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