{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-117/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-117/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2006/117",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 2006/117/Euratom of 20 November 2006 on the supervision and control of shipments of radioactive waste and spent fuel",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-117",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Application for shipment authorisation",
  "text": "1. A holder who plans to carry out an intra-Community shipment of radioactive waste or spent fuel or to arrange for such a shipment to be carried out shall submit a duly completed application for authorisation to the competent authorities of the Member State of origin.\n2. The application may be sent in respect of more than one shipment, provided that:\n(a) the radioactive waste or the spent fuel to which it relates essentially has the same physical, chemical and radioactive characteristics; and\n(b) the shipments are to be made from the same holder to the same consignee and involve the same competent authorities, and\n(c) where shipments involve transit through third countries, such transit is via the same frontier post of entry to and/or exit from the Community and via the same frontier post(s) of the third country or countries concerned, unless otherwise agreed between the competent authorities concerned.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2006/117/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:30.546631+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}