Regulation 37 Registers of consignmentsI1

The following provisions of this regulation apply in relation to registers of consignments and, as appropriate, to other registers required to be kept under regulations 37 to 40.

Records must be made F1chronologically in a register kept for the purposes, and, insofar as is consistent with the provisions of regulations 37 to 40 and paragraph (3) of this regulation, registers may be kept in any form.

Producers, consignors, carriers, and consignees shall keep registers containing the information set out in paragraph (4).

Carriers, dealers and brokers of hazardous waste shall keep for three years a chronological record of the quantity, nature, origin and the quantity of products and materials resulting from preparing for re-use, recycling or other recovery operations and, where relevant, the destination, frequency of collection, mode of transport and treatment method of the waste in a register at their principal place of business.

A person who is required to keep a register F3under paragraph 3, shall enter in the register each copy of—

and, where a regulation requiring records to be kept is silent as to the length of time for which records are to be kept under these regulations, keep the copies on the register for not less than three years from the date on which the hazardous waste was first removed from the premises at which it was produced, or held, as the case may be.

Any register kept or retained under this regulation shall be provided to the Department in such form and manner as the Department specifies.

An establishment or undertaking to which hazardous waste is delivered for treatment or disposal, as the case may be, shall provide to the previous holder of the waste, or to the Department, on request, documentary evidence that the management operation concerned has been carried out, indicating the relevant operation where applicable in accordance with the numbering and description applicable in accordance with the list in F5Annex I or II F6... , as the case may be, of the Waste Directive.

A person who is required to retain any record shall at any time during the period in which the record is required to be retained (and without prejudice to any duty to send the record to the Department at the end of that period), produce that record, in any form reasonably required, to the Department or emergency services on request.

A producer, holder, F7dealer, broker consignor, carrier or consignee of hazardous waste shall supply to the Department on request such information as it may reasonably require for the purposes of performing its functions in connection with these Regulations and for the purposes of monitoring the production, movement, storage, recovery and disposal of hazardous waste.