This page provides links to the full text of key pieces of environmental legislation relating to importing and exporting waste.

European legislation that provides the framework for controls on importing and exporting waste.

See the page in this guide on importing or exporting waste under notification controls.

If you want to import waste covered by notification controls, you must:

Plans to import toxic waste from Europe were cancelled after an international campaign to halt the trade.

Ministry officials added that no official approval had been given to any company in the area to import waste.

See our guide on importing and exporting waste.

Importing waste into the EC will also be banned, with the exception of shipments from developing countries for treatment or recycling.

At least the environmentalists managed to secure a significant tightening of the procedure for importing nuclear waste compared to the first draft of the law.

This was one of the reasons why the entire proposal for importing nuclear waste to Russia ultimately failed.