Mar 21, 2008. /Lesprom.com/. Atlantic Paper says UK and European officials are avoiding the need to provide unambiguous rules on paper shipments. It is allowing more than 4 million tonnes of recovered paper to be sent abroad to be recycled each year, while paper suppliers have no idea whether material being sent out is 100% legal. That is the view of paper recycling firm Atlantic Paper, which is furious that the Environment Agency has so far determined only that paper bound for export should have a "trivial" amount of contamination. Europe's IMPEL team monitoring transfrontier shipments has also agreed that "trivial" amounts of contamination in paper loads should be "no problem" under EU shipment laws. London-based Atlantic Paper said that after years of consultation with the industry, clarification has still not come from the UK or European authorities.