New regulations for scrap shippers to China.According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR BIR British Institute of Radiology BIR Bureau of Internal Revenue BIR Bureau of International Recycling BIR Baculovirus IAP Repeat BIR Biomedical Imaging Resource BIR Bureau of Intelligence and Research (US State Department) ), Brussels, a new Commission Regulation affecting European scrap exporters to China came into effect Feb. 11. The regulation concerns exports of certain types of Annex II Green List "wastes" under normal commercial rules, adding cotton scrap and yarn scrap to the previous goods allowed. Meanwhile, all other Annex II "Green list" material not wanted under normal commercial rules, now including GO010 (of certain metals and alloys) and GC020 (of printed circuit boards), become automatically "Red controlled," as do unlisted non-hazardous wastes. The European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community began implementing the UN-EP Basel Convention Ban, which bans the export of all hazardous wastes from the EU to China, in 1997. In a note to its members, the BIR states that in light of the EU and OECD OECD: see Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), international organization that came into being in 1961. It superseded the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, which had been founded in 1948 to coordinate the Marshall Plan for European ) listing variation from the Basel Convention, China may not ban the import of certain end-of-life goods, those being "Red controlled" instead. |
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