Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/3229 of 18 October 2024 amending Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards changes on shipments of electrical and electronic waste agreed under the Basel Convention

Article 1

Annexes III, IV and V to Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union . It shall apply from 1 January 2025. However, notifiers may already before that date submit notifications regarding shipments of electrical and electronic waste in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 as amended by this Regulation. With regard to shipments of electrical and electronic waste classified under entries A1180, B1110, B4030, GC010 or GC020, or of such wastes not classified under one single entry in either Annex III, IIIB or IV of Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006, for which a competent authority has given its consent before 1 January 2025, except for shipments of non-hazardous electrical and electronic waste to countries to which the OECD Decision does not apply, the consent shall remain valid until 1 January 2026 or until the expiry of such consent where it expires before that date. Where a notifier has submitted a notification concerning shipments of waste classified under entries A1180, B1110, B4030, GC010 or GC020 before 31 December 2024 and the competent authorities have not taken a decision by that date, the notifier shall be allowed to update the notification to align it to the new rules introduced by this Regulation until 1 February 2025.

Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 as regards changes on shipments of electrical and electronic waste agreed under the Basel Convention

ANNEXSupplementary provisions

ANNEX Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 as regards changes on shipments of electrical and electronic waste agreed under the Basel Convention Annexes III, IV and V to Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 are amended as follows: (1) Annex III is amended as follows: (a) in Part I, point (e) is deleted; (b) in Part II, under the heading ‘Other wastes containing metals’, the following footnote shall be added to code GC010: ‘(*) Entry GC010 shall apply only for waste shipped within the Union.’; (c) in Part II, under the heading ‘Other wastes containing metals’, the following footnote shall be added to code GC020: ‘(*) Entry GC020 shall apply only for waste shipped within the Union.’; (2) Annex IV, Part I is amended as follows: (a) point (c) is replaced by the following: ‘(c) Basel entry A2060 shall not apply and OECD entry GG040 in Annex III, Part II shall apply instead when appropriate.’; (b) the following point is added: ‘(g) For waste shipped within the Union, Basel entry Y49 shall not apply and entries GC010 and GC020 in Annex III Part II shall apply instead where appropriate.’; (3) Annex V is amended as follows: (a) Part 1 is amended as follows: (i) in List A, section A1, entry A1180 is replaced by the following entry: ‘A1181 Electrical and electronic waste (note the related entry Y49 in List A of Part 3 in Annex V): — Waste electrical and electronic equipment — containing or contaminated with cadmium, lead, mercury, organohalogen compounds or other Annex I constituents to an extent that the waste exhibits an Annex III characteristic, or — with a component containing or contaminated with Annex I constituents to an extent that the component exhibits an Annex III characteristic, including but not limited to any of the following components: — glass from cathode-ray tubes included on list A — a battery included on list A — a switch, lamp, fluorescent tube or a display device backlight which contains mercury — a capacitor containing PCBs — a component containing asbestos — certain circuit boards — certain display devices — certain plastic components containing a brominated flame retardant — Waste components of electrical and electronic equipment containing or contaminated with Annex I constituents to an extent that the waste components exhibit an Annex III characteristic, unless covered by another entry on list A — Wastes arising from the processing of waste electrical and electronic equipment or waste components of electrical and electronic equipment, and containing or contaminated with Annex I constituents to an extent that the waste exhibits an Annex III characteristic (e.g. fractions arising from shredding or dismantling), unless covered by another entry on list A’; (ii) in List B, section B1, entry B1110 is deleted; (iii) in List B, section B4, entry B4030 is deleted; (b) in Part 3, List A, the following entry Y49 is added: ‘Y49 Electrical and electronic waste: — Waste electrical and electronic equipment — not containing and not contaminated with Annex I constituents to an extent that the waste exhibits an Annex III characteristic, and — in which none of the components (e.g. certain circuit boards, certain display devices) contain or are contaminated with Annex I constituents to an extent that the component exhibits an Annex III characteristic — Waste components of electrical and electronic equipment (e.g. certain circuit boards, certain display devices) not containing and not contaminated with Annex I constituents to an extent that the waste components exhibit an Annex III characteristic, unless covered by another entry in Annex II or by an entry in Annex IX — Wastes arising from the processing of waste electrical and electronic equipment or waste components of electrical and electronic equipment (e.g. fractions arising from shredding or dismantling), and not containing and not contaminated with Annex I constituents to an extent that the waste exhibits an Annex III characteristic, unless covered by another entry in Annex II or by an entry in Annex IX’.