Equinor Asa Avd Raffineri Mongstad
Postboks 8500 (JE)
4035 Stavanger, Norge
Att. Hanne Seljelid og Anne Kolstad Morken
E-mail:
Circular Economy and Waste
Ref. TOSOE
April 20 2021
Case No. 2020 - 57263
Regulation n
o
. 1013/2006 on shipments of waste,
notification n
o
NO 500083
The Danish EPA has processed the above mentioned notification.
According to the Danish legislation, there is a prohibition against shipment of
waste to Denmark for disposal, unless certain specific circumstances are present.
Denmark has chosen to lay an embargo on shipments of waste from any of the EU
and EFTA countries that are parties to the Basel Convention, when the waste is
intended for disposal in Denmark.
However, this does not apply if there are no suitable disposal facilities in the
country of dispatch and the waste is produced in such limited amounts that the
establishment of new specialized disposal facilities within the country would be
uneconomic. We refer to Regulation no. 1013/2006, article 11(1) (a) and 11(3) and
to the Danish Statutory Order n
o
1229 of November 21
th
2019 on Shipments of
Waste, section 10, subsection 1.
The Danish EPA has not received information from the competent authority of
dispatch describing that there is no suitable disposal facility for this type of waste
in their country or any country nearby. According to the latest correspondence in
the case between Equinor and the Danish EPA (on April 9
th
2021) there was still
not any new information with relevance to our objection.
On these grounds, the Danish EPA maintains the objection to import of waste to
RGS Nordic on the notification NO 500083.
According to the Danish Statutory Order n
o
1229 of November 21
th
2019 on
Shipments of Waste, paragraph 16, decisions under Regulation n
o
1013/2006 and
the statutory order cannot be brought before another
administrative authority.
Complaints shall therefore be directed to us via
Environmental Protection Agency • Tolderlundsvej 5 • 5000 Odense C Denmark
Phone +45 72 54 40 00 • CVR 25798376 • EAN 5798000860810 • [email protected] • www.mst.dk