Revision of the EU’s Waste Shipment Regulation [EU Legislation in Progress][Policy Podcast]

Written by Vivienne Halleux (1st edition).

On 17 November 2021, the European Commission tabled a proposal to revise EU rules governing shipments of waste. The proposed regulation aims at easing shipments of waste for reuse and recycling in the EU, to support the transition to a circular economy; ensuring that waste exported from the EU is managed in an environmentally sound manner in the destination countries; and stepping up enforcement to counteract illegal shipments of waste. While supporting the proposed streamlining and digitalisation of procedures, stakeholders have stressed the need for significant improvements to ensure that the new regulation fulfils its objectives, in particular as regards exports of waste.

The proposal is now in the hands of the co-legislators. In the European Parliament, the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI), responsible for the file, plans to consider its rapporteur’s draft report in May 2022.

Versions

March 2022: Revision of the EU’s Waste Shipment Regulation (1st edition)

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) No 2020/1056

Committee responsible:	Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI)	COM(2021) 709 17.11.2021
Rapporteur:	Pernille Weiss (EPP, Denmark)	2021/0367(COD)
Shadow rapporteurs:	Cyrus Engerer (S&D, Malta) Linea Søgaard-Linell (Renew, Denmark) Sara Matthieu (Greens/EFA, Belgium) Pietro Fiocchi (ECR, Italy) João Pimenta Lopes (The Left, Portugal)	Ordinary legislative procedure (COD) (Parliament and Council on equal footing – formerly ‘co-decision’)