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Mr. Wigley
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he has any plans to introduce further controls on the regulations of trans-frontier shipments of waste.
Mr. Baldry
The United Kingdom is pressing for agreement in the European Community on a regulation which will strengthen existing controls. The regulation will enable member states to ratify the UNEP Basel convention on the trans-boundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal.