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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.

3.85. (...) The licensing regime for timber, i.e. Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT), remains operational only for Indonesia, although the European Union continues to negotiate additional Voluntary Partnership Agreements with other countries.

Table 3.12 Products subject to import licensing, 2022
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Product: Ozone-depleting substances (ODS) (controlled substances)
Regime: To control prohibited or restricted ODS goods
Automatic/non-automatic: Non-automatic
Legislation: Regulation (EC) 1005/2009
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Table 3.12 Products subject to import licensing, 2022
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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) 1013/2006
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Table 3.12 Products subject to import licensing, 2022
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Product: Timber and timber products
Regime: To ensure that only legally harvested timber, and products made thereof, is exported to the European Union from countries operating the FLEGT licensing scheme
Automatic/non-automatic: Automatic
Legislation: Council Regulation 2173/2005; and Commission Regulation (EC) 1024/2008
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Table 3.12 Products subject to import licensing, 2022
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Product: Endangered species (CITES)
Regime: To control imports of endangered species listed in CITES
Automatic/non-automatic: Non-automatic
Legislation: Council Regulation (EC) 338/97; Commission Regulation (EC) 865/2006; Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 792/2012; and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1915
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Table 3.12 Products subject to import licensing, 2022
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Product: Bluefin tuna (catch documentation)
Regime: To regulate stocks of bluefin tuna, improve the quality and reliability of statistical data, and prevent, deter, and eliminate illegal fishing
Automatic/non-automatic: Non-automatic
Legislation: Regulation (EU) 640/2010 and Regulation (EU) 2017/2107
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3.91. The inclusion of social and environmental standards in the 2017/18 amendments was a novel development whereby the Commission can take these into account when selecting an appropriate representative country to construct a non-distorted normal value and when calculating an injury margin. The provisions were used, albeit not extensively thus far, during the review period (Table 3.13). This was because other issues were decisive and hence the need to take social and environmental standards into account did not arise, e.g. undertakings refused for other reasons, or data available for only one suitable representative country. The most used provision is the incorporation of the cost of compliance with environmental and labour provisions when establishing the injury margin; thus far, these mostly result from the additional compliance costs with the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS).