According to the Bureau of International Recycling, a new Commission Regulation from China that affects 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 waste and yarn waste to the previous goods allowed.
Meanwhile, all other Annex II 'Green list' wastes not wanted under normal commercial rules, now including GC010 (of certain metals and alloys) and GC020 (of printed circuit boards), become automatically "Red controlled" as do unlisted non-hazardous wastes.
The European Union implemented the UN-EP Basel Convention Ban, since 1997, which banned the export of all hazardous wastes from the EU to China.
In a note to its members, the BIR stated that due to the EU and OECD listing variation from the Basel Convention, a consequence is that China may not ban the import of certain end-of-life goods, those being "Red controlled" instead.
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