Dan Boyle
Question:295 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the regulations which exist regarding the export of coal embers by ship. [30859/04]
View answerThursday, 25 November 2004
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The Waste Shipment Regulation (EEC) No. 259/93 of 1 February 1993 sets out the controls applicable to shipments of waste within, into, and exported out of the European Union. All shipments of waste must follow various procedures and control regimes, which are determined by the type of waste shipped and the type of treatment that will be applied to the waste at its destination. Thus, different levels of control regime apply, depending on the risk posed by the waste and its treatment in terms of recovery, for example, recycling or disposal, e.g. landfill or incineration.
Shipments of all waste destined for disposal, and shipments of hazardous and semi-hazardous waste destined for recovery, are subject to the requirement of prior written notification and consent. Thus, when a waste producer or waste collector — the notifier — intends to carry out a shipment of hazardous or semi-hazardous waste for recovery or disposal, or a shipment of non-hazardous waste for disposal, he or she must submit prior written notification to the competent authority of destination and send copies of the notification to the competent authorities of dispatch and of transit. In Ireland the competent authority of dispatch is the local authority in whose functional area the waste is held immediately prior to export.
It will depend on the nature of the coal waste, its destination and the form of treatment proposed as to which procedure should apply.
Question No. 296 answered with QuestionNo. 294.