The Recycling, Preparation for Re-use and Composting Targets (Monitoring and Penalties) (Wales) Regulations 2011

PART 1 E+W General

Title, application and commencement E+W

1.  The title of these Regulations is the Recycling, Preparation for Re-use and Composting Targets (Monitoring and Penalties) (Wales) Regulations 2011; they apply in relation to Wales and come into force on 30 March 2011.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 1 in force at 30.3.2011, see reg. 1

Interpretation E+W

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

• “the Measure” (“y Mesur”) means the Waste (Wales) Measure 2010;

• “the targets” (“y targedau”) means the recycling, preparation for re-use and composting targets specified in section 3(3) of the Measure;

• “the Waste Framework Directive” (“y Gyfarwyddeb Fframwaith Gwastraff”) means Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives(1) [F1 as last amended by Commission Directive (EU) 2015/1127];

• “the WasteDataFlow system” (“y system WasteDataFlow”) means the web-based system for the reporting of municipal waste maintained and operated in Wales by [F2 the Natural Resources Body for Wales]; and

• “waste facility” (“cyfleuster gwastraff”) means a facility for the disposal or recovery of waste. For the purposes of this definition, “disposal” and “recovery” have the same meaning as in Article 3(15) and (19) of the Waste Framework Directive.

(2) In these Regulations—

(a) references to an amount of a local authority’s municipal waste are references to an amount of waste by tonnage; and

(b) references to waste being sent by a local authority to a waste facility are to include references to waste being sent to such a facility in pursuance of arrangements made by the local authority.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (31.7.2016) by The Waste (Meaning of Recovery) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/691), regs. 1(2), 6(2)

F2 Words in reg. 2 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 70 (with Sch. 7)

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 2 in force at 30.3.2011, see reg. 1

(1)

OJ No L 312, 22.11.2008, p.3.