The Waste (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

The Hazardous Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005

8.—(1) The Hazardous Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a), at the end insert “, and read in accordance with regulation 2A”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (b)(i), at the end insert “, as read with Articles 5 and 6 of that Directive”.

(3) After regulation 2 insert—

“Meaning of the Waste Directive

2A.— (1) For the purposes of these Regulations, the Waste Directive is to be read in accordance with this regulation.

(2) A reference to one or more member States in a provision imposing an obligation or conferring a discretion on a member State or member States is to be read as a reference to the appropriate authority or local authority which, immediately before exit day, was responsible for the United Kingdom’s compliance with that obligation or able to exercise that discretion in respect of Wales.

(3) Article 2 is to be read as if—

(a) in paragraph 2—

(i) in the words before point (a), for “other Community legislation” there were substituted “retained EU law”;

(ii) in points (b) and (c), for “Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002” there were substituted “Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009”;

(iii) in point (d), for the words from “Directive 2006/21/EC” to the end there substituted “the Mining Waste Directive”;

(b) in paragraph 3, the words from “Without prejudice” to “Community legislation,” were omitted;

(c) paragraph 4 were omitted.

(4) Article 3(20) is to be read as if for “Article 2(11) of Directive 96/61/EC” there were substituted “Article 3(10) of the Industrial Emissions Directive”.

(5) Article 5 is to be read as if paragraph 2 were omitted.

(6) Article 6 is to be read as if—

(a) paragraphs 1 to 3 were omitted;

(b) in paragraph 4—

(i) in the first sentence, for the words from “Where criteria” to “paragraphs 1 and 2” there were substituted “Except where waste ceases to be waste in accordance with Council Regulation (EU) No 333/2011, Commission Regulation (EU) No 1179/2012 or Commission Regulation (EU) No 715/2013”;

(ii) the second sentence were omitted.

(7) Article 7 is to be read as if—

(a) in paragraph 1—

(i) the first and second sentences were omitted;

(ii) in the third sentence, for “shall be binding” there were substituted “shall, subject to paragraph 1A, be binding”;

(b) after paragraph 1, there were inserted—

“1A.   Paragraph 1 is subject to—

(a) a determination by the Welsh Ministers under regulation 8(1) of the Hazardous Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005 that a specific batch of waste is to be treated as hazardous waste;

(b) a decision made by the Welsh Ministers under regulation 9(1) of the Hazardous Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005 that a specific batch of waste is to be treated as non-hazardous waste;

(c) the treating of a specific batch of waste as hazardous or, as the case may be, non-hazardous, in accordance with regulations 8(2) or 9(2) of the Hazardous Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005;

(d) regulations (if any) made by the Welsh Ministers under section 62A(2) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (lists of waste displaying hazardous properties).”;

(c) paragraphs 2, 3 and 5 were omitted;

(d) after paragraph 6 there were inserted—

“6A.   In this Article, the “list of waste” means the list established by Commission Decision 2000/532/EC.”;

(e) paragraph 7 were omitted.

(8) Article 19 is to be read as if—

(a) in paragraph 1, for “Community” there was substituted “national”;

(b) in paragraph 2, for “a Member State” there were substituted “Wales”.

(9) Annex 3 is to be read as if, in entry HP 9, in the second sentence, “in the Member States” were omitted.

(10) In paragraph (2) “local authority” means a county council or a county borough council.

Meaning of the “Mining Waste Directive” and “Industrial Emissions Directive”

2B.— (1) In regulation 2A(3)(a)(iii), “the Mining Waste Directive” means Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the management of waste from extractive industries, read in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) Article 2 is to be read as if—

(a) in paragraph 2(c), the reference to Article 11(3)(j) of Directive 2000/60/EC were a reference to that Article read in accordance with paragraph (7) of this regulation;

(b) paragraphs 3 and 4 were omitted.

(3) Article 3(1) is to be read as if, for “Article 1(a) of Directive 75/442/EEC” there were substituted “Article 3(1) of the Waste Directive, as read with Articles 5 and 6 of that Directive”.

(4) In regulation 2A(4), “the Industrial Emissions Directive” means Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control)(2), read in accordance with paragraphs (5) and (6).

(5) Article 3 is to be read as if—

(a) in point (1)(a), for the words from “Article 1” to the end there were substituted “Article 4(78) of Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom laying down basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation(3)”;

(b) in point (10)(b), for “Member State in question” there were substituted “United Kingdom”;

(c) in point (23), for the words from “point 1” to the end there were substituted “point 1 of the second subparagraph of Article 2 of Council Directive 2009/158/EC on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in, and imports from third countries of, poultry and hatching eggs(4)”;

(d) in point (37), for “Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste” there were substituted “the Waste Directive, as read with Articles 5 and 6 of that Directive”.

(6) Annex 1 is to be read as if—

(a) in the words before point 1, the second paragraph were omitted;

(b) in point 5.3—

(i) in point (a), in the words before point (i), for “Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment” there were substituted “the Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994(5)”;

(ii) in point (b), in the words before point (i), for “Directive 91/271/EEC” there were substituted “the Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994”;

(c) in point 5.4, the reference to Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste were a reference to the Landfill Directive;

(d) in point 6.9, for “Directive 2009/31/EC” there were substituted “the EU-derived domestic legislation which transposed Directive 2009/31/EC in respect of Wales”;

(e) in point 6.11, for “Directive 91/271/EEC” there were substituted “the Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994”.

(7) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a), Article 11(3)(j) of Directive 2000/60/EC is to be read as if—

(a) the first reference to “Member States” were a reference to the appropriate authority;

(b) at the end, there were inserted—

“and “environmental objectives”, in relation to a river basin district within the meaning of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017, has the same meaning as in those Regulations”.”

(4) In regulation 5(1)—

(a) in the relevant place insert—

“appropriate authority” (“awdurdod priodol”) means the Welsh Ministers, NRBW or the Agency;”;

(b) after the definition of “hazardous waste” (“gwastraff peryglus”) insert—

“the Landfill Directive” (“y Gyfarwyddeb Dirlenwi”) means Council Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste(6), as last amended by Council Directive 2011/97/EU(7), and read as if—

(a)

in Article 2—

(i)

for point (a) there were substituted—

“(a) ‘waste’ has the meaning given by regulation 2(1)(b) of the Hazardous Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005;”;

(ii)

for point (c) there were substituted—

“(c) ‘hazardous waste’ has the meaning given in regulation 6 of the Hazardous Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005.”;

(b)

in Article 3(2), “Without prejudice to existing Community legislation,” were omitted.

(5) In regulation 8—

(a) in paragraph (2)—

(i) omit the words from “by the Secretary of State” to “may be,”;

(ii) for “Article 7(2) of the Waste Directive” substitute “paragraph (3)”;

(b) after paragraph (2) insert—

“(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), a specific batch of waste is determined to be hazardous—

(a) in relation to England if—

(i) of a type listed in regulations made under section 62A(2) of the 1990 Act;

(ii) it is the subject of a determination by the Secretary of State under regulation 8 of the Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005(8);

(b) in relation to Northern Ireland, it is the subject of a determination by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs under regulation 9 of the Hazardous Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005(9);

(c) in relation to Scotland, it is the subject of a determination by the Scottish Ministers, because the Scottish Ministers consider that the waste displays one or more of the hazardous properties listed in Annex III.”.

(6) In regulation 9—

(a) in paragraph (2)—

(i) omit the words from “by the Secretary of State” to “may be,”;

(ii) for “Article 7(2) of the Waste Directive” substitute “paragraph (3)”;

(b) after paragraph (2) insert—

“(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), a specific batch of waste is determined to be non-hazardous if it is the subject of a decision—

(a) in relation to England, by the Secretary of State under regulation 9 of the Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005;

(b) in relation to Northern Ireland, by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs under regulation 10 of the Hazardous Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005;

(c) in relation to Scotland, by the Scottish Ministers that the Scottish Ministers consider that the waste displays none of the hazardous properties listed in Annex III.”.

(7) In regulations 47(5B) and 48(6B) (as amended by regulation 5(2) and 5(3)), for “Council Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste as last amended by Council Directive 2011/97/EU” substitute “the Landfill Directive”.

(8) In regulation 60(1), in the words before sub-paragraph (a), omit from “and” to “Directive”.

(1)

S.I. 2005/1806 (W.138).

(2)

OJ No L 334 , 17.12.2010, p 17, as corrected by a corrigendum (OJ No L 158, 19.6.2012, p 25).

(3)

OJ L 13, 17.1.2014, p 1, as corrected by a corrigendum (OJ No L 072, 17.3.2016, p 69).

(4)

OJ No L 343, 22.12.2009, p 74, as last amended by Commission Implementing Decision 2011/879/EU (OJ No L 343, 23.12.2011, p 105).

(5)

S.I. 1994/2841.

(6)

OJ No L 182, 16.7.1999, p 1.

(7)

OJ No L 328, 10.12.2011, p 49.

(8)

S.I. 2005/894, amended by S.I. 2011/988, 2015/1360, 2016/738, 2018/575.

(9)

S.R. 2005 No. 300; relevant amending instruments are S.R 2011 No. 127 and S.R 2015 No. 288.