CHAPTER 6 Shipments within the Union with transit via third countries

Article 38(2), points (a), (c), (d) and (g) and Article 38(3), point (a), shall apply mutatis mutandis;

where the third country is a Party to the Basel Convention and if the country concerned has decided not to require prior written consent and has informed the other Parties to the Basel Convention thereof in accordance with Article 6(4) of that Convention, a competent authority of transit outside the Union shall have 60 days from the date of transmission of its acknowledgement of receipt of a properly completed notification to provide tacit consent or to give a written consent with or without conditions; or

where the third country is not a Party to the Basel Convention, the competent authority of dispatch shall ask the competent authority of transit in that third country whether it wishes to send its written consent to the shipment within a period agreed between the competent authorities.