On 26 October 2026 the European Commission adopted Delegated Regulation C(2026) 7390, amending Annexes III, IIIA, IIIB and IV of the Waste Shipment Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2024/1157. The Council circulated the act the next day as ST 14953/26. EUWID Recycling reported the adoption on 2 November. The Economic Chamber of Non-Ferrous Metals and Recycling in Katowice published a metal-focused reading of the same text.
The act adds seven intra-EU green-list entries and a new notification entry for untreated e-waste. Green-listed waste moving for recovery between Member States travels under Article 18: an Annex VII form, a contract with the consignee, and the Digital Waste Shipment System, without prior written notification and consent. The Commission's explanatory memorandum says that facilitation is for the single market and should not increase extra-EU exports. The text has EEA relevance.
None of that is law yet. The act has not been published in the Official Journal. Parliament and the Council have two months from notification to object, and either institution can extend that period by two months. If neither objects, the regulation enters into force on the twentieth day after publication. Until then, today's codes still apply. The Commission took 146 comments on the public consultation that closed on 31 October 2025 and 110 replies on the draft that ran from 18 August to 15 September 2026. The Expert Group on Waste discussed the draft on 14 September.
The metal entries that matter on the yard floor
BEU07 covers waste consisting mainly of aluminium, steel, or both from building, construction and demolition, including door frames, window frames, curtain walls and other framing profiles. Minimal coating, plastic, rubber or other metal is allowed if aluminium or steel remains the dominant recoverable fraction. The act does not set a numerical contamination threshold. A mixed demolition pile that is mostly timber or masonry does not become BEU07 because it contains some frames. Clean unalloyed aluminium or prepared ferrous that already sits under an existing Annex III metal entry should stay on that entry. See aluminium scrap and HMS scrap.
BEU11 covers metal waste from end-of-life vehicles treated in accordance with Articles 28 and 29 of Regulation (EU) 2026/1738, the vehicle circularity regulation of 8 July 2026. Minimal other materials are allowed if metal remains the dominant recoverable fraction. That ELV regulation generally applies from 1 September 2028. The delegated act does not say whether BEU11 can be used before those articles apply. An authorised treatment facility shipping today's depolluted ELV metal should keep using the code its competent authorities already accept, and should not rewrite the ticket on the strength of an unpublished annex.
BEU10 is narrower: solid, inert permanent magnets from waste electrical and electronic equipment, from end-of-life wind turbines and related infrastructure, or from end-of-life vehicles. That is the same stream Parliament's 20 October CRMA mandate would keep inside the Union if the Commission later uses an export-control clause. See Parliament's magnet-scrap mandate. Intra-EU green-listing of magnets and a possible extra-EU restriction are separate files. Keep magnets off a Zorba or mixed non-ferrous ticket.
BEU09 is the replacement path for treated, non-hazardous e-waste. It covers equipment that has undergone proper treatment under Article 8(2) of the WEEE Directive, waste components such as printed circuit boards from that treatment, and sorted shredding or dismantling fractions, provided none of those streams display hazardous properties and they are not already covered by another Annex III, IIIA or IIIB entry. The Commission's memorandum names depolluted devices, motors, transformers, cables and photovoltaic fractions among the streams stakeholders asked to keep on a lighter intra-EU procedure.
The same annex also adds BEU06 for fibre-reinforced polymer composites destined for recycling, BEU08 for dry-collected mattresses, and BEU12 for footwear, hats and belts. Those are not metal lots. Annex IIIA adds textile mixtures under B3030 and BEU12. The act adds no IIIA mixtures for BEU07, BEU09, BEU10 or BEU11. Wastes kept separate in one shipment are not a mixture; a bag that blends those codes with B1010 metal scrap is.
What still needs notification
EU49 goes into Annex IV for intra-EU movements. It covers waste electrical and electronic equipment, components, or processing waste not covered by A1181 or BEU09. That is the notification-and-consent box for untreated, non-hazardous e-waste inside the Union. Extra-EU e-waste has already been under prior notification since 1 January 2025, as EUWID recalled.
GC010 and GC020, the transitional intra-EU e-waste green-list entries, are deleted from Annex III. They apply only until 31 December 2026. From 1 January 2027 those OECD-era descriptions cease. If C(2026) 7390 is not yet in force on that date, intra-EU shipments that used GC010 or GC020 fall back toward Y49 and notification until BEU09 and EU49 apply. See BIR Malaga on A1181 and Y49. A treated non-ferrous shred going to a plant such as Atlantic Copper's Huelva CirCular line still has to match the code the destination and the dispatch authority will both accept. See Atlantic Copper Huelva.
Where the authorities of dispatch and destination disagree on classification, Article 29(4) of the Waste Shipment Regulation puts the shipment on notification and consent. The new entries do not change that default.
The green list is an intra-EU recovery tool. It does not authorise a waste cargo to a non-OECD recovery plant after 21 May 2027 unless that country is on the adopted metal-waste list. OECD and non-OECD scrap shipments and the 18 September draft list remain the extra-EU file. End-of-waste is a separate status: a claimed product movement sits outside BEU07 or BEU11.
Who it affects among yards, traders, mills and processors
Yards that already move C&D aluminium frames or prepared ELV metal across an internal EU border should record the new codes and wait for publication. Do not load this week under BEU07 or BEU11. Do check whether the lot is clean enough to stay on an existing metal entry, or whether it is a construction mix that only becomes green-listable if the act enters into force and the metal fraction is dominant. Licences and permits still govern who may ship.
Traders booking intra-EU recovery should treat Article 18 as the intended lighter path for those named streams, and should keep extra-EU stems on the waste-list and Basel files they already use. The Commission's memorandum is explicit that easier intra-EU movement is not a reason to increase exports from the Union. See why the EU is tightening scrap exports.
ELV processors and authorised treatment facilities are the readers of BEU11. The cross-reference to Articles 28 and 29 of Regulation (EU) 2026/1738 is a treatment condition, not a new furnace spec. A shredder fraction that still carries fluids, batteries or undeclared plastics sits outside the wording.
E-scrap processors sit on the BEU09 / EU49 split. Proper treatment and a non-hazardous reading put a sorted fraction on the lighter intra-EU path once the act applies. An untreated appliance, or a fraction that still carries a hazardous property, stays on notification. A1181 remains the hazardous Basel box. Motors, transformers and cable that are already specified metal should stay on the metal entry rather than being relabelled as mixed e-waste.
Magnet recyclers and CRMA plants, including the Dutch recycling projects named on 9 October, are the offtake for BEU10. A magnet lot moving between Member States is the use case. A magnet lot leaving the Union is still the CRMA and Waste Shipment export file. See CRMA Dutch scrap recycling projects.
Steel mills and copper or aluminium remelters do not change their melt spec because a shipment code is added. Copper scrap is still Berry, Birch or a named solids grade. Ferrous is still HMS or shredded scrap. The code on the Annex VII form does not replace the grade on the commercial ticket.
How to name the lot
Name the preparation the receiving plant already buys: C&D aluminium frames or window profiles, ELV steel or aluminium after depollution, treated WEEE non-ferrous shred, printed-circuit boards, or solid permanent magnets. State tonnes, packing, city or load point, and whether the sale is ex-works or delivered. Write the waste code you are actually shipping under today, and whether you claim end-of-waste. If the lot will only qualify as BEU07, BEU09, BEU10 or BEU11 after the act enters into force, say so. Do not put those codes on a movement that is still running under GC010, GC020, B1010 or a notification.
Do not invent an ISRI code for magnets or mixed C&D frames. Do not call an untreated appliance a treated shred. How to sell scrap metal still starts with a named grade and a named load point.
Verified companies can place the parcel on live lots or answer a wanted notice. Request access if you sell EU C&D metal, ELV fractions, treated e-scrap or magnets, or if you buy for an intra-EU recovery plant.