by westoncompliance | Feb 15, 2022 | Environment, Environment Agency, Exports, Imports, Transboundary, Transport, UK, Waste
This guidance provides details on the controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England. The following updates have been made: – Removed reference to The International Waste Shipments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 as these regulations...
by westoncompliance | Sep 20, 2021 | Brexit, Defra, Environment, Marine, Transboundary, Transport, UK, Vessels, Waste
The UK plan for shipments of waste implements the long-standing UK policy of self-sufficiency in the disposal of waste. It does this by strictly limiting when waste can be shipped to or from the UK for disposal. In January 2021, Defra consulted on various amendments...
by westoncompliance | Feb 1, 2021 | Brexit, Department for International Trade, Equipment, Exports, Licensing, Permits and Licences, Transboundary, UK
This guidance provides information on the licence needed for the export of dual-use items to EU member states. It has been updated to reflect that the UK has now left the EU. Read more… Source: The Export Control Joint Unit and Department for International...
by westoncompliance | Feb 1, 2021 | Brexit, Defra, Environment, Environment Agency, Exports, Fluorinated gas, Ozone-depletion, Transboundary, UK
What to do if your ozone-depleting substances (ODS) exports are rejected at an EU border control post (BCP). Read more… Source: Defra and EA.
by westoncompliance | Jan 26, 2021 | Dangerous Substances, Defra, Environment, Environment Agency, Mercury, Transboundary, Transport, UK
The rules businesses must follow when moving mercury and products containing mercury between Great Britain, the EU and Northern Ireland. Read more… Source: EA and Defra.
by westoncompliance | Jan 26, 2021 | BEIS, Brexit, Dangerous Substances, Environment, Hazardous Materials, Marine, Radioactive Substances, Transboundary, Transport, UK, Vessels, Waste
What operators need to do in terms of submitting plans for radioactive waste disposal following the UK’s exit from Euratom and requirements under Article 37. Read more… Source: BEIS.
by westoncompliance | Jan 18, 2021 | Chemicals, Dangerous Substances, Environment, Marine, MARPOL, MCA, Pollution, Transboundary, Transport, UK, Vessels
This Marine Information Note (MIN) provides information on amendments to MARPOL Annex II related to the carriage of noxious liquid substances in bulk, which comes into force on 1 January 2021. This MIN also provides information on the 2020 Edition of the IBC Code and...
by westoncompliance | Jan 18, 2021 | Environment, Environment Agency, Marine, Transboundary, Transport, UK, Waste
This guidance details how to pay Environment Agency charges for international waste shipments (IWS) notifications. Read more… Source: EA.
by westoncompliance | Jan 15, 2021 | BEIS, Dangerous Substances, Environment, Mercury, Offshore Installation, OPRED, Transboundary, Transport, UK, Waste
Following recent discussions between BEIS OPRED and the Competent Authorities (CAs), BEIS OPRED has been informed that the CAs no longer require the annual datasets relating to any mercury waste streams and waste exports which emanated from offshore oil and gas...
by westoncompliance | Dec 23, 2020 | Amendment, Exports, Transboundary, Transport, UK
These Regulations, which come into force at 10.59 p.m. on 31st December 2020, correct a drafting error in regulation 7(9) of the Export Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1502) before that regulation comes into force. Read more… Source:...
by westoncompliance | Dec 22, 2020 | Amendment, Brexit, Environment, Transboundary, Transport, Vessels, Waste
These Regulations implement changes to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (adopted on 22nd March 1989). In May 2019, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention adopted decision BC-14/12 by...
by westoncompliance | Nov 11, 2020 | Certification, Hazardous Materials, Marine, MCA, Transboundary, Transport, UK, Vessels
This Marine Information Note (MIN) outlines the certification required in relation to EU ship recycling regulation 2013 from 1st January 2021 for UK ships 500GT and over, which may be subject to PSC at EU ports. Read more… Source: MCA.
by westoncompliance | Nov 11, 2020 | Amendment, Brexit, Dangerous Substances, Environment, Health and Safety, Pollution, Radioactive Substances, Transboundary, Transport, UK, Waste
These Regulations amend the Transfrontier Shipment of Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (“the 2019 Regulations”) which were made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8(1) of the European (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c.16) (“the Withdrawal...
by westoncompliance | Sep 22, 2020 | Consultation, Environment, Radioactive Substances, SEPA, Transboundary, UK, Waste
SEPA intend to revise condition C.4.1. of the standard conditions for radioactive substances activities (transfer of radioactive waste outside of the UK) made under the Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (EASR) (S.S.I. 2018/219). Under clause...
by westoncompliance | May 19, 2020 | BEIS, Environment, OPRED, Transboundary, Transport, Vessels, Waste
BEIS OPRED has published a notice to remind stakeholders that the ‘TSFW Regulations 2007 Offshore Operators for notifying Waste Exports to BEIS Form’ needs to be submitted by the 25th May 2020. Read more… Source: BEIS OPRED.
by westoncompliance | Nov 26, 2019 | Consents, Field Development, Maximising Economic Recovery (MER), NSTA, NSTA Strategy, OPRED, OSDR, Transboundary, UK
This guidance has been updated since it was last published in April 2019. The document first came out in 2018. The main changes include the following: – Paragraph numbers have been corrected Section 3 – Considerations relevant to all new field developments...
