competent authority

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20/08/2020 – 09/01/2025 Article 3, Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 Scope: Whole act

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

‘competent authority’ means: in the case of a Member State, the body designated by the Member State concerned pursuant to Article 75; in the case of a third country that is a Party to the Basel Convention of 22 March 1989 on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal (‘the Basel Convention’), the body designated by that country as the competent authority for the purposes of the Basel Convention in accordance with Article 5 thereof; in the case of any country not referred to in either point (a) or point (b), the body that has been designated as the competent authority by the country or region concerned or, in the absence of such designation, the regulatory authority for the country or region, as appropriate, which has jurisdiction over a shipment;

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No text uses this concept on 11/11/2026.