Hong Kong, China #5130 (v.8)

Datos básicos

Notificada en
Validez de la versión
23/01/2025 - actual
Versión activa actual v.8
Miembro informante
Hong Kong, China
En vigor desde
Fecha de supresión
En vigor
Descripción general
Permit for the import of waste
Fundamento jurídico nacional
Waste Disposal Ordinance (Cap. 354) and its subsidiary regulations

Date of entry into force of this restriction: 1 September 1996

(glass container waste: 1 May 2023; and non-hazardous electrical and electronic waste: 1 January 2025)
Mecanismo administrativo
The restriction is administered through a permit system for the import of waste on an MFN basis in accordance with HKC's obligations under the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, and to ensure environmentally sound management of waste in Hong Kong.

Glass container waste import control ensures that any import of glass container wastes will be controlled and disposed of in a proper and environmentally sound manner.

Export licensing procedures can be found in Section 1.
Entidades responsables
Versión del SA
HS 2022
Signatura de la OMC a que se hace referencia
G/LIC/N/3/HKG/28

Metadatos

Justificaciones en el marco de la OMC

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

GATT 1994 (GATT 1947 provisions)

Notificada como: Article XX(b) of the GATT 1994
Compromisos Internacionales (distintos de los asumidos en el marco de la OMC)

Basel Convention

Notificada como: Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
Interlocutores afectados
Interlocutores no afectados

Medidas

Restricciones notificadas
NAL
Signatura
NAL

Líneas arancelarias

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