PART 3 Amendments to subordinate legislation made under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018

20 New regulation 11A
Before regulation 12, insert—

“11A UK Plan for Shipments of Waste: continuation and changes
1 The UK Plan for Shipments of Waste of May 2012 continues to have effect.
A copy of the UK Plan for Shipments of Waste of May 2012 may be seen at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/69546/pb13770-waste-shipments.pdf. Alternatively, a copy may be obtained by writing to the EU and International Chemicals, Hazardous Waste and Waste Shipments Team, Environmental Quality Directorate, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF.
2 The Secretary of State may from time to time amend or replace the UK Plan for Shipments of Waste of May 2012; and that plan, as amended or replaced, is referred to in this Part as “the UK Plan”.
3 Before amending or replacing the UK Plan, the Secretary of State must be satisfied that the change meets the objectives set out in—
(a) Article 4(2)(b) and (d) and (9)(a) of the Basel Convention; and
Adopted in Basel, Switzerland on 22nd March 1989.
(b) paragraphs 1 to 3 of Schedule 1 to the Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011, reading those paragraphs as if—
(i) the objectives in those paragraphs related to the United Kingdom as a whole;
(ii) in paragraph 2(2), the reference to the appropriate authority were a reference to the Secretary of State.
S.I. 2011/988, amended by S.I. 2012/1889, 2014/656.”

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