16.6.2023
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 214/179 Tuesday 17 January 2023
Amendment 14 Proposal for a regulation Recital 30 Text proposed by the Commission (30)
Amendment
With a view to ensuring that competent authorities are able to correctly process the documents submitted to them relating to the shipment of waste, it is necessary to lay out an obligation for the notifier to provide an authorised translation of these documents in a language acceptable to these authorities, if they so request.
(30)
With a view to ensuring that competent authorities are able to correctly process the documents submitted to them relating to the shipment of waste, while avoiding an undue administrative burden, the notifier should pro­ vide notifications, information, documentation or other communications in the official language of the Member State of the competent authorities concerned or in English.
An authorised translation of these documents in a language acceptable to these authorities, should be provided if the competent authorities so request, but only in duly justified cases.
Amendment 15 Proposal for a regulation Recital 31 Text proposed by the Commission (31)
In order to avoid disruptions of shipments of waste or goods, due to a disagreement between competent authorities on the status of these waste or goods, it is necessary to set out a procedure to resolve such disagreements.
It is important in that regard that competent authorities base their decisions on the provisions relating to the determination of by-products and to the end-of-waste status of Directive 2008/98/EC.
It is also necessary to lay out a procedure to resolve disagreements between competent authorities as to whether waste should be subject or not to the notification procedure.
To ensure a better harmonisation across the Union of the conditions under which waste should be subject to the notification procedure, the Commission should also be empowered to adopt implementing acts establishing criteria for the classification of specific waste in the relevant Annexes to this Regulation, which will determine whether or not it is subject to the notification procedure.
In addition, in order to avoid that waste are falsely declared as used goods and to provide legal clarity, the Commission should be empowered to adopt implementing acts establishing criteria to distin­ guish between used goods and waste, for specific commodities for which such distinction is important, especially for their export from the Union.
Amendment (31)
In order to avoid disruptions of shipments of waste or goods, due to a disagreement between competent authorities on the status of these waste or goods, it is necessary to set out a procedure to resolve such disagree­ ments.
It is important in that regard that competent authorities base their decisions on the provisions relating to the determination of by-products and to the end-of-waste status of Directive 2008/98/EC.
It is also necessary to establish criteria for the classification of specific waste in the Annexes to this Regulation and to lay out a procedure to resolve disagreements between competent authorities as to whether waste should be subject or not to the notification procedure.
In addition, in order to provide legal certainty and to avoid that waste are falsely declared as used goods, it is necessary to establish criteria to distinguish between used goods and waste, for specific commodities for which such distinction is important, especially for their export from the Union.