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Directive 2006/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2006 on waste (Text with EEA relevance) (repealed)

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ANNEX ICATEGORIES OF WASTE

Q1

Production or consumption residues not otherwise specified below

Q2

Off-specification products

Q3

Products whose date for appropriate use has expired

Q4

Materials spilled, lost or having undergone other mishap, including any materials, equipment, etc., contaminated as a result of the mishap

Q5

Materials contaminated or soiled as a result of planned actions (e.g. residues from cleaning operations, packing materials, containers, etc.)

Q6

Unusable parts (e.g. reject batteries, exhausted catalysts, etc.)

Q7

Substances which no longer perform satisfactorily (e.g. contaminated acids, contaminated solvents, exhausted tempering salts, etc.)

Q8

Residues of industrial processes (e.g. slags, still bottoms, etc.)

Q9

Residues from pollution abatement processes (e.g. scrubber sludges, baghouse dusts, spent filters, etc.)

Q10

Machining/finishing residues (e.g. lathe turnings, mill scales, etc.)

Q11

Residues from raw materials extraction and processing (e.g. mining residues, oil field slops, etc.)

Q12

Adulterated materials (e.g. oils contaminated with PCBs, etc.)

Q13

Any materials, substances or products the use of which has been banned by law

Q14

Products for which the holder has no further use (e.g. agricultural, household, office, commercial and shop discards, etc.)

Q15

Contaminated materials, substances or products resulting from remedial action with respect to land

Q16

Any materials, substances or products which are not contained in the abovementioned categories.

ANNEX II ADISPOSAL OPERATIONS

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.

D 1

Deposit into or on to land (e.g. landfill, etc.)

D 2

Land treatment (e.g. biodegradation of liquid or sludgy discards in soils, etc.)

D 3

Deep injection (e.g. injection of pumpable discards into wells, salt domes or naturally occurring repositories, etc.)

D 4

Surface impoundment (e.g. placement of liquid or sludgy discards into pits, ponds or lagoons, etc.)

D 5

Specially engineered landfill (e.g. placement into lined discrete cells which are capped and isolated from one another and the environment, etc.

D 6

Release into a water body except seas/oceans

D 7

Release into seas/oceans including sea‐bed insertion

D 8

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

D 9

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.)

D 10

Incineration on land

D 11

Incineration at sea

D 12

Permanent storage (e.g. emplacement of containers in a mine, etc.)

D 13

Blending or mixing prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D 1 to D 12

D 14

Repackaging prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D 1 to D 13

D 15

Storage pending any of the operations numbered D 1 to D 14 (excluding temporary storage, pending collection, on the site where it is produced)

ANNEX II BRECOVERY OPERATIONS

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.

R 1

Use principally as a fuel or other means to generate energy

R 2

Solvent reclamation/regeneration

R 3

Recycling/reclamation of organic substances which are not used as solvents (including composting and other biological transformation processes)

R 4

Recycling/reclamation of metals and metal compounds

R 5

Recycling/reclamation of other inorganic materials

R 6

Regeneration of acids or bases

R 7

Recovery of components used for pollution abatement

R 8

Recovery of components from catalysts

R 9

Oil re-refining or other reuses of oil

R 10

Land treatment resulting in benefit to agriculture or ecological improvement

R 11

Use of wastes obtained from any of the operations numbered R 1 to R 10

R 12

Exchange of wastes for submission to any of the operations numbered R 1 to R 11

R 13

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)

ANNEX III

PART AREPEALED DIRECTIVE WITH ITS SUCCESSIVE AMENDMENTS(referred to in Article 20)

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

PART BLIST OF TIME-LIMITS FOR TRANSPOSITION INTO NATIONAL LAW(referred to in Article 20)

DirectiveTime-limit for transposition

75/442/EEC

17 July 1977

91/156/EEC

1 April 1993

91/692/EEC

1 January 1995

ANNEX IVCORRELATION TABLE

Directive 75/442/EECThis Directive

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

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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

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Annex III

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Annex IV

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