WTO Quantitative Restrictions

United Kingdom #6485 (v.4)

Base data

Notified in
Version validity
27/03/2025 - present
Current active version v.4
Reporting member
United Kingdom
In force from
End date
In force
General description
Import and export restrictions of waste: procedures and control regimes for the shipment of waste, depending on the origin, destination and route of the shipment, the type of waste shipped and the type of treatment to be applied to the waste  at its destination.  
 
National legal basis
Assimilated Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 on shipments of waste
  
Available through: 
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2006/1013/contents

Measure applied from 12.07.2007. 
Administrative mechanism
Administration: Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs

The UK is notifying the extension of the import and export restrictions of waste by subjecting all e-waste, including non-hazardous e-waste, to the prior informed consent procedure. This implements the Basel Convention E-Waste Amendments which came into force 1 January 2025.
Responsible entities
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
HS version
HS 2022
Referenced WTO document symbol
G/MA/QR/N/GBR/3/Add.1

Meta data

WTO justifications

XX:(b) - (b) necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health;

GATT 1994 (GATT 1947 provisions)

Reported as: Article XX(b) GATT Protection of human, animal or plant life or health.

XX:(g) - (g) relating to the conservation of exhaustible natural resources if such measures are made effective in conjunction with restrictions on domestic production or consumption;

GATT 1994 (GATT 1947 provisions)

Reported as: Article XX(g) GATT Conservation of exhaustible natural resources.
Non-WTO commitments

Basel Convention

Reported as: Basel Convention

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Reported as: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Affected partners
Non-affected partners

Measures

Reported restrictions
P CP P-X CP-X
Symbol
P
CP
P-X
CP-X

Tariff lines
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