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Directive 2006/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2006 on waste (Text with EEA relevance) (repealed)
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Production or consumption residues not otherwise specified below
Off-specification products
Products whose date for appropriate use has expired
Materials spilled, lost or having undergone other mishap, including any materials, equipment, etc., contaminated as a result of the mishap
Materials contaminated or soiled as a result of planned actions (e.g. residues from cleaning operations, packing materials, containers, etc.)
Unusable parts (e.g. reject batteries, exhausted catalysts, etc.)
Substances which no longer perform satisfactorily (e.g. contaminated acids, contaminated solvents, exhausted tempering salts, etc.)
Residues of industrial processes (e.g. slags, still bottoms, etc.)
Residues from pollution abatement processes (e.g. scrubber sludges, baghouse dusts, spent filters, etc.)
Machining/finishing residues (e.g. lathe turnings, mill scales, etc.)
Residues from raw materials extraction and processing (e.g. mining residues, oil field slops, etc.)
Adulterated materials (e.g. oils contaminated with PCBs, etc.)
Any materials, substances or products the use of which has been banned by law
Products for which the holder has no further use (e.g. agricultural, household, office, commercial and shop discards, etc.)
Contaminated materials, substances or products resulting from remedial action with respect to land
Any materials, substances or products which are not contained in the abovementioned categories.
NB: This Annex is intended to list disposal operations such as they occur in practice. In accordance with Article 4, waste must be disposed of without endangering human health and without the use of processes or methods likely to harm the environment.U.K.
Deposit into or on to land (e.g. landfill, etc.)
Land treatment (e.g. biodegradation of liquid or sludgy discards in soils, etc.)
Deep injection (e.g. injection of pumpable discards into wells, salt domes or naturally occurring repositories, etc.)
Surface impoundment (e.g. placement of liquid or sludgy discards into pits, ponds or lagoons, etc.)
Specially engineered landfill (e.g. placement into lined discrete cells which are capped and isolated from one another and the environment, etc.
Release into a water body except seas/oceans
Release into seas/oceans including sea‐bed insertion
Biological treatment not specified elsewhere in this Annex which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations numbered D 1 to D 7 and D 9 to D 12
Physico-chemical treatment not specified elsewhere in this Annex which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations numbered D 1 to D 8 and D 10 to D 12 (e.g. evaporation, drying, calcination, etc.)
Incineration on land
Incineration at sea
Permanent storage (e.g. emplacement of containers in a mine, etc.)
Blending or mixing prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D 1 to D 12
Repackaging prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D 1 to D 13
Storage pending any of the operations numbered D 1 to D 14 (excluding temporary storage, pending collection, on the site where it is produced)
NB: This Annex is intended to list recovery operations as they occur in practice. In accordance with Article 4, waste must be recovered without endangering human health and without the use of processes or methods likely to harm the environment.U.K.
Use principally as a fuel or other means to generate energy
Solvent reclamation/regeneration
Recycling/reclamation of organic substances which are not used as solvents (including composting and other biological transformation processes)
Recycling/reclamation of metals and metal compounds
Recycling/reclamation of other inorganic materials
Regeneration of acids or bases
Recovery of components used for pollution abatement
Recovery of components from catalysts
Oil re-refining or other reuses of oil
Land treatment resulting in benefit to agriculture or ecological improvement
Use of wastes obtained from any of the operations numbered R 1 to R 10
Exchange of wastes for submission to any of the operations numbered R 1 to R 11
Storage of wastes pending any of the operations numbered R 1 to R 12 (excluding temporary storage, pending collection, on the site where it is produced)
Council Directive 75/442/EEC (OJ L 194, 25.7.1975, p. 39) | |
Council Directive 91/156/EEC (OJ L 78, 26.3.1991, p. 32) | |
Council Directive 91/692/EEC (OJ L 377, 31.12.1991, p. 48) | only as regards the reference to Directive 75/442/EEC in Annex VI |
Commission Decision 96/350/EC (OJ L 135, 6.6.1996, p. 32) | |
Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1) | Annex III, point 1 only |
Directive | Time-limit for transposition |
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75/442/EEC | 17 July 1977 |
91/156/EEC | 1 April 1993 |
91/692/EEC | 1 January 1995 |
Directive 75/442/EEC | This Directive |
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Article 1, introductory words | Article 1(1) introductory words |
Article 1(a) first subparagraph | Article 1(1)(a) |
Article 1(a) second subparagraph | Article 1(2) |
Article 1(b) — (g) | Article 1(1)(b) — (g) |
Article 2 | Article 2 |
Article 3(1) introductory words | Article 3(1) introductory words |
Article 3(1)(a) introductory words | Article 3(1)(a) introductory words |
Article 3(1)(a) first indent | Article 3(1)(a)(i) |
Article 3(1)(a) second indent | Article 3(1)(a)(ii) |
Article 3(1)(a) third indent | Article 3(1)(a)(iii) |
Article 3(1)(b), introductory words | Article 3(1)(b) introductory words |
Article 3(1)(b) first indent | Article 3(1)(b)(i) |
Article 3(1)(b) second indent | Article 3(1)(b)(ii) |
Article 3(2) | Article 3(2) |
Article 4, first paragraph, introductory words | Article 4(1), introductory words |
Article 4, first paragraph, first indent | Article 4(1)(a) |
Article 4, first paragraph, second indent | Article 4(1)(b) |
Article 4, first paragraph, third indent | Article 4(1)(c) |
Article 4, second paragraph | Article 4(2) |
Article 5 | Article 5 |
Article 6 | Article 6 |
Article 7(1), first subparagraph, introductory words | Article 7(1), introductory words |
Article 7(1), first subparagraph, first indent | Article 7(1)(a) |
Article 7(1), first subparagraph, second indent | Article 7(1)(b) |
Article 7(1), first subparagraph, third indent | Article 7(1)(c) |
Article 7(1), first subparagraph, fourth indent | Article 7(1)(d) |
Article 7(1), second subparagraph, introductory words | Article 7(2), introductory words |
Article 7(1), second subparagraph, first indent | Article 7(2)(a) |
Article 7(1), second subparagraph, second indent | Article 7(2)(b) |
Article 7(1), second subparagraph, third indent | Article 7(2)(c) |
Article 7(2) | Article 7(3) |
Article 7(3) | Article 7(4) |
Article 8, introductory words | Article 8, introductory words |
Article 8, first indent | Article 8(a) |
Article 8, second indent | Article 8(b) |
Article 9(1), first subparagraph | Article 9(1), first subparagraph |
Article 9(1), second subparagraph, introductory words | Article 9(1), second subparagraph, introductory words |
Article 9(1), second subparagraph, first indent | Article 9(1), second subparagraph, (a) |
Article 9(1), second subparagraph, second indent | Article 9(1), second subparagraph, (b) |
Article 9(1), second subparagraph, third indent | Article 9(1), second subparagraph, (c) |
Article 9(1), second subparagraph, fourth indent | Article 9(1), second subparagraph, (d) |
Article 9(1), second subparagraph, fifth indent | Article 9(1), second subparagraph, (e) |
Article 9(2) | Article 9(2) |
Article 10 | Article 10 |
Article 11(1), first subparagraph | Article 11(1) |
Article 11(1), second subparagraph, introductory words | Article 11(2), introductory words |
Article 11(1), second subparagraph, first indent | Article 11(2)(a) |
Article 11(1), second subparagraph, second indent | Article 11(2)(b) |
Article 11(2) | Article 11(3) |
Article 11(3) | Article 11(4) |
Article 12 | Article 12 |
Article 13 | Article 13 |
Article 14, first paragraph, introductory words | Article 14(1), introductory words |
Article 14, first paragraph, first indent | Article 14(1)(a) |
Article 14, first paragraph, second indent | Article 14(1)(b) |
Article 14, second subparagraph | Article 14(2) |
Article 15, introductory words | Article 15, introductory words |
Article 15, first indent | Article 15(a) |
Article 15, second indent | Article 15(b) |
Article 16, first paragraph | Article 16, first paragraph and Article 18(2) |
Article 16, second paragraph | ___ |
Article 16, third paragraph | Article 16, second paragraph |
Article 17 | Article 17 |
Article 18(1) | Article 18(1) |
Article 18(2) | Article 18(3) |
Article 18(3) | Article 18(4) |
Article 19 | ___ |
Article 20 | Article 19 |
___ | Article 20 |
___ | Article 21 |
Article 21 | Article 22 |
Annex I | Annex I |
Annex II A | Annex II A |
Annex II B | Annex II B |
___ | Annex III |
___ | Annex IV |
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