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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-waste-shipments-amendment-regulations-2024/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1281",
  "legislation_title": "The International Waste Shipments (Amendment) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-waste-shipments-amendment-regulations-2024",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations implement changes to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (adopted on 22nd March 1989) (the “Basel Convention”).\nIn May 2022, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention adopted decision BC-15/18 by which it amended Annexes II, VIII and IX to the Convention in relation to Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE).\nRegulations 3 to 6 amend Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 as follows. Annex 1C of that regulation is amended by regulation 3 to include a reference to WEEE classified as Y49, which has been added to Annex II to the Basel Convention.\nAnnex 3 is amended by regulation 4 to remove defunct references to WEEE classified as B1110, which is no longer used in the Basel Convention, and GC010 and GC020, which are also no longer classifications accepted for exports from Great Britain.\nAnnexes 4 and 5, are amended by regulations 5 and 6 to remove references to A1180, B1110 and B4030, which are no longer used in the Basel Convention, and to remove references to codes GC010 and GC020. References are also added to new codes Y49 and A1181 which have been introduced in the Basel Convention.\nRegulation 7 and the Schedule also amend the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1418/2007 in order to remove defunct references to WEEE classified as B4030, GC010 and GC020.\nAn impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no significant impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.",
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  "version": "current",
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      "text": "https://www.basel.int/TheConvention/Overview/TextoftheConvention/tabid/1275/Default.aspx. A hard copy of this document can be viewed at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF."
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      "text": "Decision BC-15/18 may be seen here: https://www.basel.int/TheConvention/ConferenceoftheParties/ReportsandDecisions/tabid/3303/Default.aspx. A hard copy of this document can be viewed at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF."
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