The Environment Agency said the new system was agreed in consultation with industry and will support a sustainable regulatory system that increases compliance and reduces delays in processing notifications.
Movements of certain waste to some destinations are subject to stricter notification controls. Waste shipped under these controls is known as “notified waste” and the Environment Agency has an obligation to recover the costs of its regulatory activities through charges to its customers.
Following a public consultation launched last October, the new charges scheme for regulating notified waste shipments under the Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations (2007) came into effect on the 1 April.
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