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Table 3.11 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2022
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Product: Substances that deplete the ozone layer
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Number of CN lines: 100
Rationale: Montreal Protocol
Legislation: Regulation (EC) 1005/2009; Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/605
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Table 3.11 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2022
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Product: Certain hazardous chemicals
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Number of CN lines: ..
Rationale: Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
Legislation: Regulation (EU) 649/2012; Commission Delegated; Regulation (EU) 2022/643
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Table 3.11 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2022
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Product: Persistent organic pollutants
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Number of CN lines: ..
Rationale: Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
Legislation: Regulation (EU) 2019/1021
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Table 3.11 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2022
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Product: Certain animal and plant species
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Number of CN lines: 693
Rationale: CITES
Legislation: Council Regulation (EC) 338/97, Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/2117, Regulation (EU) 2019/1010
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Table 3.11 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2022
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Product: Fluorinated greenhouse gases, their mixtures and concerned products and equipment
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Number of CN lines: 268
Rationale: Montreal Protocol
Legislation: Regulation (EU) 517/2014
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Table 3.11 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2022
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Product: Invasive alien species (IAS)
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Number of CN lines: 21
Rationale: To prevent negative consequences to the environment
Legislation: Regulation (EU) 1143/2014; Regulation (EU) 2016/1141; and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1263
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Table 3.11 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2022
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Product: Mercury, mercury compounds, and mercury waste
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Number of CN lines: 5
Rationale: Minamata Convention on Mercury
Legislation: Regulation (EU) 2017/852
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Table 3.11 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2022
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Product: Wastes
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Number of CN lines: 718
Rationale: Basel Convention for the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and their Disposal; OECD Decision on the control of transboundary movements of wastes destined for recovery operations
Legislation: Regulation (EC) 1013/2006 and amendments
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Table 3.11 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2022
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Product: Fish of vessels from Cambodia, Comoros, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Measure: Prohibition
Number of CN lines: 419
Rationale: EU Regulation to fight against Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing
Legislation: Council Regulation (EC) 1005/2008; Council Implementing Decision of 24 March 2014; Council Implementing; Decision (EU) 2017/1332; Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/1333; and Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1818
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3.84. (...) Retrospective Union surveillance was also adopted for imports of bioethanol in November 2020. Although the regulation later expired, imports of bioethanol continued to be informally monitored.