New Waste Shipment Regulation delayed in the EEA Agreement
The Waste Shipment Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 will continue to apply to shipments of waste to and from Norway until further notice.
The EU’s new Waste Shipment Regulation (EU) 2024/1157, with most of the provisions applying in the EU from 21 May 2026, has not yet been incorporated into the EEA Agreement. This is due to circumstances beyond Norway’s control.
The new EU regulation has not yet been incorporated into the EEA Agreement
The EEA Agreement is an international legal agreement between the EU Member States and Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein (the EEA EFTA States). Its main objective is to extend the EU internal market, with the free movement of goods, services, capital and persons, to these three non-Member States. In order to be applicable in the EEA, EU acts have to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement and implemented into national law. Hence, until new legal acts are incorporated into the EEA Agreement, they do not apply between the EEA EFTA States and the EU Member States.
The 2006 regulation is the binding legal framework between Norway and the EU
The 2006 Waste Shipment Regulation is still part of the EEA Agreement and will continue to be until the EEA EFTA States and the EU agree to incorporate the new Regulation into the Agreement and remove the 2006-regulation. This means that the 2006-regulation is applicable as the binding legal framework between Norway and the EU Member States.
Operators carrying out shipments of waste between Norway and the EU must therefore, for the time being, continue to comply with the provisions of title II in the 2006-regulation.
Norway will align administrative practice with the new regulation where possible
Norwegian authorities have been working to prepare the industry for the new Regulation, and we aim to ensure that this delay causes as few difficulties as possible for operators.
We will therefore adjust our administrative practices where this is possible within the framework of the 2006-regulation, so that case handling is more closely aligned with the provisions of the new regulation. We also intend for all parties involved in cross-border waste shipments to start using the new EU system, Diwass from 21. May 2026.