Overview
- Authorities plan to repatriate more than 300 tonnes of material, including carbon‑fiber composites and parts of lithium‑ion batteries.
- A temporary work site in Jiříkov is being established this week to sort the waste and load staged transports.
- Cross-border notifications under the EU Waste Shipment Regulation set the formal start date for the operation.
- After return, the sorted loads will go to facilities in North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Brandenburg and Bavaria for recovery or disposal.
- Prosecutors in Weiden are probing years of alleged illegal shipments, with the firm’s managing director and a 56-year-old driver in pretrial detention, and the state is likely to bear the costs due to the company’s insolvency.