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Table 3.8 Products subject to import licensing, 2019
Product: Waste shipment
Regime: To control the import of waste and hazardous waste pursuant to the Basel Convention
Automatic/Non-automatic: Automatic
Legislation: Regulation (EC) No. 1013/2006

Table 3.8 Products subject to import licensing, 2019
Product: Timber and timber products
Regime: To ensure that only legally-harvested timber, and products made thereof, is exported to the EU from countries operating the FLEGT licensing scheme
Automatic/Non-automatic: Automatic
Legislation: Council Regulation No. 2173/2005; and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1024/2008

Table 3.8 Products subject to import licensing, 2019
Product: Endangered species (CITES)
Regime: To control imports of endangered species listed in CITES
Automatic/Non-automatic: Non-automatic
Legislation: Council Regulation (EC) No. 338/97; Commission Regulation (EC) No. 865/2006; Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 792/2012; and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 2017/1915

3.79. (...) Another new development is the ability to take into account the presumably higher costs of EU industry compliance with social and environmental standards.

Box 3.2 Main elements of the trade remedy modernization, 2018
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Inclusion of social and environmental considerations: Implementation of social and environmental standards are taken into account:- in determining target price for EU industry; and in considering undertaking offers.
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3.104. The EU maintains export prohibitions or restrictions on about 11 categories of products (Table 3.9). Many of these are pursuant to international agreements or arrangements, e.g. CITES, and the Montreal Protocol, while others are EU measures. (...)

3.107. Regulation (EC) No. 1013/2006 lays down rules on the export of waste from the EU. They are based on the provisions of the Basel Convention for the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and their Disposal, but are stricter in a number of instances. At the 14th Conference of the Parties of the Basel Convention in May 2019, new rules were adopted with regard to international trade in plastic waste, which will enter into force in 2021. For the EU, this means that, from 2021, the export of plastic waste to non-OECD countries will be banned, except for plastic wastes which are easy to recycle.

3.108. Pursuant to a Commission Guidance document , the EU has given guidance to member States to not issue re-export certificates for raw ivory, except in exceptional cases, since 1 July 2017. This temporary suspension is in response to a surge in elephant poaching, a significant increase in the legal trade in ivory from the EU in recent years, and various EU initiatives taken against wildlife trafficking pursuant to CITES. The Guidance document also puts in place more stringent measures on intra-EU trade in ivory.

Table 3.9 Prohibitions, restrictions or licensing on exports, 2019
Product: Substances that deplete the ozone layer
Measure: Prohibition/restriction
Rationale: Montreal Protocol
Legislation: Regulation (EC) No. 1005/2009

Table 3.9 Prohibitions, restrictions or licensing on exports, 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; Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
Legislation: Regulation (EU) No. 649/2012