# DIWASS – electronic data exchange on shipments

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1290 of 2 July 2025 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the requirements for interoperability between the central system and other systems or software and other technical and organisational requirements for the electronic exchange of information and documents

- Status: In force
- Legal order: European Union
- Legal area: Transboundary shipments of waste
- OJ L 2025/1290, 14.07.2025
- Business profile: Recycling, Scrap trade, Waste shipments, Smelting

## In brief

Rules on access to the DIWASS central system (GUI, API, eFTI), registration of operators and authentication of documents in shipments of waste, including the Annex VII document for ‘green list’ scrap.

## Key obligations

- access to the central system only in the manner indicated in the declaration of the national authority (Art. 5(1), Art. 4(1))
- application for registration of an operator or facility to the authority of the State of establishment; the authority processes it within 5 working days (Art. 7(1)–(2))
- authentication in the system of notifications, movement documents, confirmations of receipt and Annex VII by the relevant users (Art. 14(1))
- the user is the owner of the data and documents entered and is responsible for them (Art. 3)

## Competent authority

Chief Inspectorate of Environmental Protection (GIOŚ) (registration of operators in PL, DIWASS information point)

## Penalties

none in the act; a breach of Art. 18 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 may constitute illegal shipment – national penalties (Art. 63 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157; Arts 32–33 of the Act on international shipments of waste (MPO))

## Entry into force

03.08.2025

## Application

2025-08-03; electronic exchange required from 21.05.2026 (Art. 27 and Art. 86(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157)

## Key dates

- 03.02.2026: deadline for declarations by national authorities on the access method (Art. 4(1))
- 21.05.2026: mandatory electronic notifications in DIWASS (according to GIOŚ, without deferral)
- 15.11.2026: availability of the Annex VII module in the production DIWASS (GIOŚ communication of 29.09.2026)
- 01.01.2027: Annex VII mandatory in DIWASS; until 31.12.2026 GIOŚ accepts paper documents (GIOŚ communications)

## Related acts

- [Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR)](https://igmnir.org/dane/prawo/en/eu-wsr/)
- [Act on international shipments of waste](https://igmnir.org/dane/prawo/en/pl-ustawa-mpo/)

## Official sources

- [Text of the act](http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/1290/oj)
- [EUR-Lex – Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1290, document information](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/PL/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32025R1290)
- [GIOŚ – Deferral of the obligation to use DIWASS for Annex VII documents (17.04.2026)](https://www.gov.pl/web/gios/odroczenie-obowiazku-stosowania-diwass-dla-zalacznikow-vii)
- [GIOŚ – Annex VII mandatory in DIWASS from 1 January 2027 (29.09.2026)](https://www.gov.pl/web/gios/zalacznik-vii--od-1-stycznia-2027-r-obowiazkowy-w-diwass)

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Register as of: 22.10.2026. The official text of the act prevails. IGMNiR. On the website: https://igmnir.org/en/law/#akt-eu-wsr-2025-1290