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Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/395/REV.1 S-Table-3.7 European Union 2020 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Import licences Chemicals
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Table 3.7 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2019
Product: Certain hazardous chemicals
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Rationale: Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade
Legislation: Regulation (EU) No. 649/2012; Commission Implementing Decision of 10 October 2018
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Hazardous
MEAs
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/395/REV.1 S-Table-3.7 2020 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Import licences Chemicals
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Table 3.7 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2019
Product: Persistent organic pollutants
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Rationale: Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
Legislation: Regulation (EU) 2019/1021
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MEAs
Organic
Pollution
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/395/REV.1 S-Table-3.7 2020 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Import licences Other
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Table 3.7 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2019
Product: Certain animal and plant species
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Rationale: CITES
Legislation: Council Regulation (EC) No. 338/97
Keywords
Conservation
Endangered
MEAs
Wildlife
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/395/REV.1 S-Table-3.7 2020 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Import licences Other
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Table 3.7 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2019
Product: Fluorinated greenhouse gases
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Rationale: Targeted reduction of greenhouse gases pursuant to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Legislation: Regulation (EU) No. 517/2014
Keywords
Climate
Green
MEAs
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/395/REV.1 S-Table-3.7 2020 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Import licences Other
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Table 3.7 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2019
Product: Invasive alien species (IAS)
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Rationale: To prevent negative consequences to the environment
Legislation: Regulation (EU) No. 1143/2014; Regulation (EU) 2016/1141; and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1263
Keywords
Environment
MEAs
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/395/REV.1 S-Table-3.7 2020 Measures Ban/Prohibition Chemicals
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Table 3.7 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2019
Product: Mercury and mercury products
Measure: Prohibited [a]
Rationale: Minamata Convention on Mercury
Legislation: Regulation (EU) 2017/852

[a] The import ban is gradually being phased in, depending on the type of product, from 2018 to 2021.
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MEAs
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/395/REV.1 S-Table-3.7 2020 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Import licences Other
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Table 3.7 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2019
Product: Waste
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
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) No. 1013/2006 and its subsequent amendments
Keywords
Hazardous
MEAs
Waste
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/395/REV.1 S-Table-3.7 2020 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Import licences Fisheries
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Table 3.7 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2019
Product: Bluefin tuna
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Rationale: International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
Legislation: Regulation (EU) No. 640/2010
Keywords
Conservation
Fish
MEAs
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/395/REV.1 S-Table-3.7 2020 Measures Ban/Prohibition Fisheries
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Table 3.7 Prohibitions or restrictions on imports, 2019
Product: Fish of vessels from Cambodia, Comoros, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Measure: Prohibition
Rationale: Protection of animal life and health and the environment, and conservation of natural resources
Legislation: Regulation (EC) No. 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
Keywords
Conservation
Environment
Fish
Natural resources
Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/395/REV.1 S-Table-3.8 2020 Measures Import licences Chemicals
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Table 3.8 Products subject to import licensing, 2019
Product: Ozone-depleting substances (ODS) (controlled substances)
Regime: To control prohibited or restricted ODS goods
Automatic/Non-automatic: Non-automatic
Legislation: Regulation (EC) No. 1005/2009
Keywords
Ozone