1. When waste is being transported from an EU Member State

The notifying party = any natural or legal person under the jurisdiction of that Member State which intends to carry out a shipment of waste or to have a shipment of waste carried out, and to whom the duty to notify is assigned.

Who can be a notifier? A notifier may be :

• the initial producer of the waste
• a new producer authorised to carry out operations prior to waste transfer
• a licensed collector who, from various small quantities of the same type of waste collected from a variety of sources, has assembled the shipment which is to start from a single notified location
• a registered dealer who has been authorised in writing by the original producer, new producer or licensed collector specified in (i), (ii) and (iii) to act on his/her behalf as notifier
• a registered broker who has been authorised in writing by the original producer, new producer or licensed collector specified in (i), (ii) and (iii) to act on his/her behalf as notifier
• and where all of the persons specified above are unknown or insolvent, the holder.

2. In the case of import into, or transit through, the EU of waste that does not originate in a Member State

The notifier = any natural or legal persons under the jurisdiction of the country of dispatch who intends to carry out a shipment of waste or intends to have carried out, or who has had carried out, a shipment of waste, being either :

• the person designated by the law of the country of dispatch ; or, in the absence of any such designation
• the holder at the time the export took place