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Waste: Exports

Commons · Question 26520 · Tabled 2 Sep 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 7 Sep 2026

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Asked by Tessa Munt

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her Department will reinstate the insistence on digital Annex VII prior to shipment and the insistence on geo-tagged location evidence of individual container shipments reaching the

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 7 Sep 2026

The Environment Agency's (EA) enhanced compliance checks found no evidence of widespread diversion to illegal pyrolysis. As a result, it does not currently require digital Annex VII documentation or geo-tagged proof of arrival for every shipment. The EA r...