TITLE VIIOTHER PROVISIONS

CHAPTER 1 Additional obligations

Article 51Reports by Member States

1.Before the end of each calendar year, each Member State shall send the Commission a copy of the report for the previous calendar year which, in accordance with Article 13(3) of the Basel Convention, it has drawn up and submitted to the Secretariat of that Convention.

2.Before the end of each calendar year, Member States shall also draw up a report for the previous year based on the additional reporting questionnaire in Annex IX, and shall send it to the Commission.

3.The reports drawn up by Member States in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be submitted to the Commission in an electronic version.

4.The Commission shall establish every three years a report, based on these reports, on the implementation of this Regulation by the Community and its Member States.