Directive 2006/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (repealed)Show full title

Article 2 U.K.

1. The following shall be excluded from the scope of this Directive:

[F1 (a) gaseous effluents emitted into the atmosphere and carbon dioxide captured and transported for the purposes of geological storage and geologically stored in accordance with Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the geological storage of carbon dioxide (1) or excluded from the scope of that Directive pursuant to its Article 2(2);]

(b) where they are already covered by other legislation:

(i)

radioactive waste;

(ii)

waste resulting from prospecting, extraction, treatment and storage of mineral resources and the working of quarries;

(iii)

animal carcases and the following agricultural waste: faecal matter and other natural, non‐dangerous substances used in farming;

(iv)

waste waters, with the exception of waste in liquid form;

(v)

decommissioned explosives.

2. Specific rules for particular instances, or supplementing those of this Directive, on the management of particular categories of waste, may be laid down by means of individual Directives.

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the geological storage of carbon dioxide and amending Council Directive 85/337/EEC, European Parliament and Council Directives 2000/60/EC, 2001/80/EC, 2004/35/EC, 2006/12/EC, 2008/1/EC and Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 (Text with EEA relevance).

(1)

[F1 OJ L 140, 5.6.2009, p. 114 .]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the geological storage of carbon dioxide and amending Council Directive 85/337/EEC, European Parliament and Council Directives 2000/60/EC, 2001/80/EC, 2004/35/EC, 2006/12/EC, 2008/1/EC and Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 (Text with EEA relevance).