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3.117. Changes to the existing export measures during the review period were mainly minor updates. With respect to the Regulation on drug precursors, amended in 2020 and 2022, new chemicals were added to its coverage; a similar update was made to the Regulation on hazardous chemicals, where there were amendments to the annexes on product coverage; (...) the annexes to the Regulation on wastes were amended to include certain plastics' wastes as a result of the Basel Convention amendments; (...)

Table 3.15 Prohibitions, restrictions, or licensing on exports, 2022
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Product: Substances that deplete the ozone layer
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Number of CN lines: 91
Rationale: Montreal Protocol
Legislation: Regulation (EC) 1005/2009 and Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/605
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Table 3.15 Prohibitions, restrictions, or licensing on exports, 2022
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Product: Certain hazardous chemicals
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Number of CN lines: 140
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; and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/643
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Table 3.15 Prohibitions, restrictions, or licensing on exports, 2022
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Product: Fluorinated greenhouse gases, their mixtures and concerned products and equipment
Measure: Prohibition/licensing
Number of CN lines: ..
Rationale: Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, as last amended and adjusted
Legislation: Regulation (EU) 517/2014
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Table 3.15 Prohibitions, restrictions, or licensing on exports, 2022
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Product: Certain animal and plant species
Measure: Prohibition/restriction/licensing
Number of CN lines: 633
Rationale: CITES
Legislation: Council Regulation (EC) 338/97; Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/2117; and Regulation (EU) 2019/1010
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Table 3.15 Prohibitions, restrictions, or licensing on exports, 2022
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Product: Mercury, mercury compounds, and mercury waste
Measure: Prohibited
Number of CN lines: 38
Rationale: Minamata Convention on Mercury
Legislation: Regulation (EU) 2017/852
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Table 3.15 Prohibitions, restrictions, or licensing on exports, 2022
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Product: Wastes
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Number of CN lines: 717
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 its amendments
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Table 3.15 Prohibitions, restrictions, or licensing on exports, 2022
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Product: Bluefin tuna (catch documentation)
Measure: Licensing
Number of CN lines: 5
Rationale: International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
Legislation: Regulation (EU) 640/2010; and Regulation (EU) 2017/2107
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Table 3.15 Prohibitions, restrictions, or licensing on exports, 2022
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Product: Dissostichus spp. (catch documentation)
Measure: Licensing
Number of CN lines: 6
Rationale: Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
Legislation: Council Regulation (EC) 1005/2008; Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2014/170; Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/1332; Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/1333; and Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1818
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Table 3.15 Prohibitions, restrictions, or licensing on exports, 2022
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Product: Fishery products as defined in the Regulation (catch certificate)
Measure: Licensing
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 (EU) 2014/170; Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/1332; Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/1333; and Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1818
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