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18.—(1) Article 34 is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph 1, for “the United Kingdom” substitute “Great Britain”.
(3) For paragraph 5 substitute—
“5. Where a person proposes to export waste from Great Britain destined for disposal in an EU or EFTA country Party to the Basel Convention, the Secretary of State shall be required to present a prior duly reasoned request to the competent authority of the EU or EFTA country of destination on the basis that technical capacity and the necessary facilities in order to dispose of the waste in an environmentally sound manner do not exist, or cannot reasonably be acquired, in Great Britain.”.
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