6.2 Germany’s output of written consent of shipment of waste
The perimeter:
There is a website specially designed indicating the designated “pre-consented recovery facilities” by their competent authorities within OECD countries33. And this corresponds with the action plan based on functional criteria.
The institutional content：
In usual cases, the validity of consent lasts 1 year and has to be reapplied afterwards. But according to the European Council Decision34, the maximum validity for the consent with pre-consented recovery facilities could be 3 years.
Degree of formalization:
According to the decision of OECD countries, only the competent authority of transit can give its consent in a tacit way while the other two counterparts have to give their feedback in writing. Therefore, we consider the output as formal.
The status:
Due to the fact that after the notification process, there still exists a movement document procedure before getting the final certification, we consider the output of consent as intermediary.
Coherence within the policy：
The competent authority of dispatch and transit has to inform the other two parties each time they require additional documentation and information. This means that although the whole process would not go through any public department at national level, the three political-administrative actors need sufficient communication among them. And as stated above, our group believes that some kind of quota decided at national level, which means coherence vertically still exists though not proved by official documents.
The degree of coordination with other public policies:
Similar to the situation of the Chinese case, the idea of protecting the environment through regulating solid waste importation means crash with economic policies and other policies aiming at decreasing unemployment. Due to the fact that European countries put much emphasis on safe transportation of solid waste for historical reasons and even issue special certificate for transportation, certain coordination with transportation policies is expected.
6.3 Comparative studies
The outputs of both the countries are very formal. It will take much time and resources for administrations as well as the beneficiaries to settle all these kinds of paperwork and it will cost more when some information is not complete.
Evaluative Statements
7.1 Evaluating China’s output of licensing solid waste
The dimensions of evaluating the output of licensing the enterprise using solid waste
Other independent variants
A. The macro environment of global waste trade
The macro environment of global waste trade, including higher global price of solid waste, competition from other import countries, as well as decreasing provision of solid waste from developed countries due to economic crisis can also leads to the impact of the shutdown of small and home workshop enterprises.
B. Other Domestic policies: recycled economy policy, infrastructure policy and transportation policy
The policy of recycled economy can produce the output of subsidy to the environmental-friendly equipment and technologies, which will lead to impact on enterprises to invest more in environmental-friendly equipment and technologies
In General Report of China’s Environment of 2011 issued by China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection35, we can know that 14844 licenses were authorized to 2913 enterprises in the year of 2011. Therefore this evaluative statement focus on the output, that is, the question of “doing something”.