Background Romania faces difficulties in enforcing the EC Regulation no. 1013/2006 and therefore it is highly likely that waste will enter the country without the legally required notification documents and end up in places that are banned by national waste laws and policy. According to reports made by the Romanian National Environmental Guard, five illegal waste shipments were detected in 2009. Waste has also entered Romania as a secondary product and thus avoided the formalities of notification. Waste management is also hindered by a lack of information regarding policies and a low institutional capacity compared to other Member States from Central Europe. A major cause of these problems is the absence of a website in English that is dedicated to information on trans-boundary shipments of waste. As a result, foreign companies cannot access required information in real-time. Objectives The project aims to digitise the processing of tracking movements of waste into, within and out of Romania by replacing paper-based applications and forms within an electronic system for waste operators, the Romanian authorities and other states. The electronic system for exchanging data on shipments of waste will reduce administrative labour and speed up information exchange between waste operators and state authorities. Specific objectives of the project are: Registration of stakeholders; Technical support to the competent authorities by developing a software platform for storing and accessing information on shipments of waste (registration of stakeholders, digital registration of export/import notifications, electronic signatures, registration of decision data, digital reporting of shipments, traceability of movements, online payments for financial guarantee) and an IT infrastructure platform for tracing movements (GPS tracking, route planning etc.); Simplification of the management practices relating to the shipments of waste across borders; Real-time verification of waste movements; The establishment of a monitoring procedure for waste shipments; and Networking with other projects. Expected results: The main expected result is a computerised system to register the shipments. This will reduce the incidence of illegal shipments while also reducing the paperwork for notification. The project also expects to: Update the national database of recovery facilities and their capacities; Improve the quality of data that are reported by different facilities as treated waste; Increase by up to 70% the number of illegally shipments of waste detected; Promote the electronic system in order to exchange information and data on waste shipment; Reduce by up to 20% the time needed to process the documents involved in shipments of waste procedure; Inform more than 28 recovery facilities operators about the implementation of the electronic system; Connect at least 10 of the most important recovery facilities to the system in order to apply for electronic data exchange; Connect at least five Romanian border points to the system in order to facilitate monitoring of shipments; Train 112 personnel from the Romanian authorities who are involved in waste shipments procedures; and Consolidate the capacity of the Romanian authorities to implement and enforce the provisions of EC Regulation no. 1013/2006 after the end of the transitional period.