Waste: common rules to apply to shipments to non OECD countries

The Commission can accept the common position as the proposal initially presented by the Commission and amended by the Council has been clarified. The stumbling block however is still the legal base (Articles 113 and 130s of the EC Treaty), while the Commission proposes Article 113 alone. The Commission would also have found it preferable to keep the 'red list' procedure rather than, as proposed by the Council, move to the procedure set out in Article 15 of Regulation 259/93/EEC which provides for longer delays in replying to a notification. Similarly, the Commission considers that the inclusion of a new annex in the waste legislation is not desirable and could prove confusing. �