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

At second reading under cooperation procedure, the decision on common position 48/98/EC adopted by the Council with a view to adopting a Council Regulation establishing common rules and procedures to apply to shipments to certain non-OECD countries of certain types of waste was approved by the European Parliament. This recommendation by Ivar Virgin (PPE,SE) amends the common position in the following areas: - requiring the Commission to regularly provide the countries covered with information on changes to Annexes A and B; - deletion of all reference to Annex C (the Green List, as set out by the Basel Convention) and of the Annex itself; - requiring the Commission to cooperate with the country concerned when determining which of the control procedures shall apply; - specifying that periodic review of the proposed directive should occur for the first time no later than nine months after publication instead of by 31/12/98; - requiring any new proposals in the light of such a review to be made to the European Parliament as well as to the Council; - requiring the Commission, in accordance with Article 18 of Directive 75/442/EEC, to review and amend the proposed regulation as soon as possible to bring it into line with Regulation 259/93/EEC (and particularly Annex V), as modified by Regulation 120/97/EC.�