18.7.2022

Official Journal of the European Union

C 275/95

(COM(2021) 709 final – 2021/0367 (COD))

(2022/C 275/15)

Rapporteur:

Anastasis YIAPANIS

Referral

European Parliament, 22.11.2021

Council, 1.12.2021

Legal basis

Article 192 and article 304 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

Section responsible

Section for Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment

Adopted in section

9.2.2022

Adopted at plenary

23.2.2022

Plenary session No

567

Outcome of vote

(for/against/abstentions)

160/2/0

1. Conclusions and recommendations

1.14. 2. Introduction and General Comments

2.6. 3. Intra-EU waste shipments

3.1. —

the digitalisation of the notification procedures;

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an update of the fast-track system;

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common and transparent rules for the classification of waste and the calculation of financial guarantees;

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alignment with the proximity principle and the waste hierarchy.

3.7. 4. Exports, imports and in transit waste shipments

4.10. 5. Illegal waste trafficking

5.5. 6. Final Remarks

6.6. Brussels, 23 February 2022.

Christa SCHWENG

(1) https://circulareconomy.europa.eu/platform/en

(2) OECD (2018), Global Material Resources Outlook to 2060.

(3) World Bank: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050.

(4) The Institute for European Environmental policy: EU circular economy and trade.

(5) Eurostat — Circular Economy in the EU.

(6) OJ L 330, 10.12.2013, p. 1.

(7) OJ L 249, 31.7.2020, p. 33.

(8) OJ L 190, 12.7.2006, p. 1.

(9) European Parliament: Waste Shipment Regulation Revision of Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 on shipments of waste.

(10) EESC Opinion on Critical Raw Materials Resilience (OJ C 220, 9.6.2021, p. 118).

(11) COM/2019/640 final.

(12) COM/2020/98 final.

(13) Communication: Our waste, our responsibility.

(14) The FTAs with Mexico and New Zealand.

(15) Questions and Answers on new EU rules on waste shipments.

(16) EU Strategy to tackle Organised Crime 2021-2025.

(17) Review No 4/2020: EU action to tackle the issue of plastic waste.

(18) Annex VII — Information accompanying shipments of waste.

(19) EESC opinion on Implementation of EU environmental legislation: air quality, water and waste (OJ C 110, 22.3.2019).

(20) The European Digital Strategy — Shaping Europe’s digital future.

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on shipments of waste and amending Regulations (EU) No 1257/2013 and (EU) 2020/1056 (COM(2021) 709 final – 2021/0367 (COD))

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on shipments of waste and amending Regulations (EU) No 1257/2013 and (EU) 2020/1056