some member states for instance estonia and hungary even require sending copies of all annex vii documents to the competent authorities but the countries considered in this projectdenmark finland norway and sweden do not because the companies arrange the shipments between themselves and the authorities are not automatically involved it can be stated that the control of shipments of greenlisted waste is not very strict on account of this low level of control the fact that interpreting the regulations requires some experience and the fact that several kinds of operators are active in the waste business there is a risk that not all shipments described as shipments of greenlisted waste take place by the book it might be that some waste requiring a notification is shipped as greenlisted or that waste is shipped in contravention of an export ban