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Agreement Document symbol Notifying Member Year Harmonized types of environment-related objectives Harmonized types of measures Harmonized types of sectors subject to the measure Measure description See more information
Technical Barriers to Trade G/TBT/N/ECU/86 Ecuador 2012 Waste management and recycling Technical regulation or specifications Manufacturing, Other
Draft Technical Regulation of the Ecuadorian…
Draft Technical Regulation of the Ecuadorian Standardization Institute (PRTE INEN) No. 071: Disposal of disused plastic products and plastic waste
Environment related objective
To protect the environment
Measure description Coverage of the measure
Draft Technical Regulation of the Ecuadorian Standardization Institute (PRTE INEN) No. 071: Disposal of disused plastic products and plastic waste
Disused plastic products and plastic waste
Type of measure
Technical regulation
ICS - HS Code
Subsidy amount Implementation period
Entry into force 6 months after adoption
Keywords
Environment
Plastic
Waste
Technical Barriers to Trade G/TBT/N/SAU/394 Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of 2012 Waste management and recycling
Conformity assessment procedures, Technical…
Conformity assessment procedures, Technical regulation or specifications
Manufacturing
Draft Technical Regulation: Plastics - Guidelines…
Draft Technical Regulation: Plastics - Guidelines for the recovery and recycling of plastics waste
Environment related objective
To promote recovery and recycling of plastics waste
Measure description Coverage of the measure
Draft Technical Regulation: Plastics - Guidelines for the recovery and recycling of plastics waste
Plastic waste
Type of measure
Technical regulation
ICS - HS Code
13.030.50
83.080.01
Subsidy amount Implementation period
Entry into force to be determined
Keywords
Plastic
Recycle
Waste
Technical Barriers to Trade G/TBT/N/SAU/396 Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of 2012
Waste management and recycling, Water management…
Waste management and recycling, Water management and conservation, Soil management and conservation
Conformity assessment procedures, Technical…
Conformity assessment procedures, Technical regulation or specifications
Manufacturing
Draft Technical Regulation: Plastics piping…
Draft Technical Regulation: Plastics piping systems for non-pressure underground drainage and sewerage - Polypropylene (PP)
Environment related objective
To keep quality and specify requirementsfor conveyance of soil and waste discharge
Measure description Coverage of the measure
Draft Technical Regulation: Plastics piping systems for non-pressure underground drainage and sewerage - Polypropylene (PP)
Polypropylene (PP) pipes, fittings and piping systems
Type of measure
Technical regulation
ICS - HS Code
23.040.45
23.040.20
91.140.80
93.030
Subsidy amount Implementation period
Entry into force to be determined
Keywords
Soil
Waste
Water
Technical Barriers to Trade G/TBT/N/TGO/2 Togo 2012 Waste management and recycling
Ban/Prohibition, Technical regulation or…
Ban/Prohibition, Technical regulation or specifications
Manufacturing
Decree No. 20111-003/PR of 5 January 2011…
Decree No. 20111-003/PR of 5 January 2011 establishing the procedures for the management of plastic bags and packaging in Togo
Environment related objective
To protect the environment
Measure description Coverage of the measure
Decree No. 20111-003/PR of 5 January 2011 establishing the procedures for the management of plastic bags and packaging in Togo
Plastic bags and packaging
Type of measure
Technical regulation
ICS - HS Code
Subsidy amount Implementation period
Entry into force on 5 September 2011
Keywords
Bio
Environment
Fish
Forest
Hazardous
Labelling
Plastic
Import Licensing Procedures G/LIC/N/2/ISR/2 Israel 2012
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management, MEAs implementation and compliance, Ozone layer protection, Waste management and recycling, Water management and conservation
Import licences Chemicals, Forestry, Manufacturing, Mining Free Import Order 2012
Environment related objective
To protect the environment or comply with international commitments
Measure description Coverage of the measure
Free Import Order 2012
Asbestos; Specific inorganic chemicals including Phosphorus; Specific organic chemicals including methyl bromide; Specific pharmaceutical products; Fertilizers; Explosives, pyrotechnics, and matches; Miscellaneous chemical products; Plastic waste; Wood and articles of wood; Pulp of wood, fibrous cellulosic material, waste; Glass waste; Lead and articles thereof; Other base metals, cermets, articles thereof; Electrical, electronic equipment; Furniture, lighting, signs, prefabricated buildings
Type of measure
Import licensing
ICS - HS Code
Subsidy amount Implementation period
Keywords
Environment
Organic
Plastic
Waste
Water
Import Licensing Procedures G/LIC/N/3/PRY/1 Paraguay 2012 Waste management and recycling Import licences Manufacturing, Other
Law 294/93 on the assessment of the environmental…
Law 294/93 on the assessment of the environmental impact of the recycling, importing or exporting enterprise; SEAM Resolution No. 374/07 creating the environmental safety certificate, the register of importers and exporters, and the register of certifying, recycling and consultancy firms working with non-hazardous recyclable materials, establishing fees, and regulating procedures
Environment related objective
To foster recycling
Measure description Coverage of the measure
Law 294/93 on the assessment of the environmental impact of the recycling, importing or exporting enterprise; SEAM Resolution No. 374/07 creating the environmental safety certificate, the register of importers and exporters, and the register of certifying, recycling and consultancy firms working with non-hazardous recyclable materials, establishing fees, and regulating procedures
Scrap such as aluminium, iron, copper, bronze, PET plastics in general
Type of measure
Import licensing
ICS - HS Code
Subsidy amount Implementation period
Keywords
Environment
Hazardous
Plastic
Recycle
Quantitative Restrictions G/MA/QR/N/KOR/1 Korea, Republic of 2012
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management, Waste management and recycling
Import licences Manufacturing
Foreign Trade Act (1 July 1987); Notification of…
Foreign Trade Act (1 July 1987); Notification of Export and Import (1 July 1987).
Environment related objective
To protect the health and life of animals and plants from plastics, rubbers and pneumatic tyres
Measure description Coverage of the measure
Foreign Trade Act (1 July 1987); Notification of Export and Import (1 July 1987).
Of other plastics for aircrafts; New pneumatic tyres, of rubber of a kind used on aircraft; Retreaded or used pneumatic tyres of rubber, solid or cushion tyres, tyre treads and tyre flaps, of rubberof a kind used on aircraft; Used pneumatic tyres of a kind used on aircraft; Retreaded or used pneumatic tyres of rubber; solid or cushion tyres, tyre treads and tyre flaps, of rubber; Other of a kind used on aircraft, Tyre Flaps; Inner Tubes, of rubber of a kind used on aircraft; Other articles of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber, parts of balloons, airships, flying machines, gliders, kites and rotochutes
Type of measure
Import restriction
ICS - HS Code
Subsidy amount Implementation period
Keywords
Plastic
Waste
Quantitative Restrictions G/MA/QR/N/RUS/1 Russian Federation 2012
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management, MEAs implementation and compliance, Waste management and recycling
Ban/Prohibition Chemicals, Manufacturing, Mining, Other
Common List of Goods that are subject of import…
Common List of Goods that are subject of import/export prohibitions or restrictions from the part of CU members within the framework of Eurasian Economic Community in trade with third countries and Regulations about restrictions application adopted by EurAsEC Board of Heads of States Decision № 19 of 27 November 2009 and introduced by CU Commission Decision № 132 of 27 November 2009 On a Single Non-Tariff Regulation of the Customs Union of the Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation (as last amended on 26 July 2012).
Environment related objective
To control hazardous wastes and comply with the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 
Measure description Coverage of the measure
Common List of Goods that are subject of import/export prohibitions or restrictions from the part of CU members within the framework of Eurasian Economic Community in trade with third countries and Regulations about restrictions application adopted by EurAsEC Board of Heads of States Decision № 19 of 27 November 2009 and introduced by CU Commission Decision № 132 of 27 November 2009 On a Single Non-Tariff Regulation of the Customs Union of the Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation (as last amended on 26 July 2012).
Wastes, which composition includes as a component or contaminant any of the following substances: arsenic, arsenic compounds, mercury, mercury compounds (excluding mercury vapour lamps and fluorescent tubes); Magnesium dust; Dust from metallurgical industries and manufacture of glass, containing beryllium and its compounds; Dust containing lead and its compounds; Dust containing vanadium compounds; Galvanic residues; Slag, ash and residues (other than from the manufacture of iron or steel), containing metals, arsenic or their compounds including: metal residues and residues consisting of alloys of any of the following substances: arsenic, beryllium, lead, mercury; Manganese sludges from the production of electrolytic manganese dioxide; Arsenious сake from copper production; Arsenic-potassium cake from the production of tin; Wastes of arsenate-calcium from the production of lead; Mercury-selenium sludge from the production of sulphuric acid; Lead, nickel, cadmium hydroxide sludge; Wastes of aluminium chloride with admixture of acetophenone; Leaded gasoline sludges and leaded anti-knock compound sludges; Sludge (lye) after treatment of zinc, dust and residues; Ash from the incineration of insulated copper wire; Solutions of metal pickling liquors, hydraulic fluids, brake fluid and antifreeze fluids; Zinc wastes and scrap containing lead and cadmium; Waste electrolytic solutions from electrolytic processes of extraction and purification of copper; Waste etching copper-containing solutions; Assembled waste lead-acid batteries; Wastes of glass from cathode-ray tubes and other wastes of glass with active coat; Asbestos waste in the form of dust and fibre; Used articles of asbestos-cement, of cellulose fibre-cement or of like materials, containing asbestos; Wastes of glass fibres, similar in their physicochemical characteristics to asbestos; Waste mercury lamps and fluorescent tubes; Sorbents, with admixture of arsine or phosphine, waste more than 50%; Slag and ash from the machines for incineration of waste (including volatile ash and dust); Slag and ash from pyrolysis machines; Residues of production or refining of petroleum coke and bitumen (excluding the pyrolysis resin), including: acid resin, acid tar, acid tar from oil refining, containing sulphuric acid, sulfonated gummed compounds, acid tar from the production of sulfonate additives (white oils sulfonation), containing sulphuric acid, heavy organic sulfonates, acid tar from the purification of aromatic hydrocarbons containing sulphuric acid, aromatic compounds, sulfonic acids, acid tar from purification of paraffins, containing sulphuric acid, organic compounds, cid tar of sulfate fractionation from process of benzene separation in coke production, residues of acid resins treatment, sludges of coke and gas plants, waste oil products, including: oil products in the form of aqueous emulsions or mixtures with water, oil products in the form of sludge from the storage tanks, oil products, unfit for further utilization as primary products; Waste oil products containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs) or polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs); Wastes containing lead anti-knock preparations; Wastes of skins or raw fur materials containing agents of infection of humans and animals; Wastes containing organic phosphorus compounds; Wastes of organofluorine compounds; Wastes of organochlorine acids production; Wastes of non-halogenated organic solvents and their mixtures; Wastes of halogenated organic solvents and their mixtures; Wastes of substances and products containing or contaminated with: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), polychlorinated terphenyls (PCT), polychlorinated naphthalene (PCN) or polybrominated biphenyls (PBB), including any other polybrominated analogues of these compounds at a concentration level of 50 mg/kg and above; Wastes in the form of resinous residues (except asphalt binder), formed during refining, distillation and any pyrolitic treatment of organic materials, shale processing wastes, containing phenol; Rubber wastes of the following materials if they are not mixed with other wastes, including: worn inner tubes, wastes of hard rubber (e.g. ebonite); Wastes, consisting of or contaminated with any of the following substances: Any analogue of polychlorinated dibenzofuran, Any analogue of polychlorinated dibenzodioxin; Wastes of packages and containers contaminated with substances containing polychlorinated or polybrominated biphenyls: of plastic, of wood, of paper and paperboard, of glass, excluding cullet, of ferrous metals; Wastes of floor coverings of chemical textile materials; Wastes of production, preparation and use of pharmaceutical products, including expired medicines****, including for the treatment of animals; Clinical and related to this area wastes (wastes of medical, veterinary or other similar activities; waste from hospitals and other facilities formed during the medical examination, check-up and treatment of patients or researches); Wastes of production and use of biocides and phytopharmaceuticals, including pesticides and herbicides failed to comply with standard, with expired term or not **** or unfit for originally intended use; Wastes of production of plants processing means and protection means from plant pests; Wastes of production and use of chemical preservatives of wood***** (except for mercury compounds): creosote oil, bitumen paste, sodium fluoride, sodium fluorosilicate, blue stone, Natrium phenolatum, anthracene oil, shale sleeper impregnation oil; Wastes, containing chemical substances (reactants) failed to comply with standard, with expired term**** or consisting of such substances; Wastes of chemical substances resulted from researches and developments or educational activity, which nature is not identified yet and/or which are new and their impact on human health and/or the environment are not known yet
Type of measure
Imports prohibition
ICS - HS Code
Subsidy amount Implementation period
Keywords
Bio
Climate
Environment
Forest
Hazardous
Labelling
MEAs
Organic
Plastic
Waste
Quantitative Restrictions G/MA/QR/N/THA/1 Thailand 2012 Waste management and recycling Import licences Manufacturing
Notification of the Ministry of Commerce on the…
Notification of the Ministry of Commerce on the import of goods (No. 112), dated 7 February B.E. 2539
Environment related objective
To protect human health and environment
Measure description Coverage of the measure
Notification of the Ministry of Commerce on the import of goods (No. 112), dated 7 February B.E. 2539
Waste and scrap of plastic
Type of measure
Non-automatic import licensing
ICS - HS Code
39.15
Subsidy amount Implementation period
Keywords
Environment
Plastic
Waste
Government Procurement GPA/37/ADD.9 Japan 2012 Waste management and recycling Public procurement Chemicals, Forestry, Manufacturing
Revision to the “Basic policy for the promotion…
Revision to the “Basic policy for the promotion of the procurement of eco-friendly goods and services" under the "Law concerning the promotion of procurement of eco-friendly goods and services by the state and other entities".
Environment related objective
To ensure a minimum ratio of recycled plastics
Measure description Coverage of the measure
Revision to the “Basic policy for the promotion of the procurement of eco-friendly goods and services" under the "Law concerning the promotion of procurement of eco-friendly goods and services by the state and other entities".
Stationery (including mechanical pencils, ball-point. pens, scissors, glue, files, binders and chalks)
Type of measure
Public procurement
ICS - HS Code
Subsidy amount Implementation period
Entry into force on 1 April 2012
Keywords
Environment
Plastic
Recycle

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