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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1179/2012 of 10 December 2012 establishing criteria determining when glass cullet ceases to be waste under Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
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Section 1. Quality of glass cullet resulting from the recovery operation | |
1.1.The glass cullet shall comply with a customer specification, an industry specification or a standard for direct use in the production of glass substances or objects by re-melting in glass manufacturing facilities. | Qualified staff shall verify that each consignment complies with the appropriate specification. |
1.2.The content of the following non-glass components shall be:
Examples of non-metal non-glass inorganics are: ceramics, stones, porcelain, pyro-ceramics. Examples of organics are: paper, rubber, plastic, fabrics, wood. | Qualified staff shall carry out a visual inspection of each consignment. At appropriate intervals and subject to review if significant changes in the operating process are made, representative samples of glass cullet shall be analysed gravimetrically to measure the total non-glass components. The non-glass component content shall be analysed by weighing after mechanical or manual (as appropriate) separation of materials under careful visual inspection. The appropriate frequencies of monitoring by sampling shall be established taking into account the following factors:
The process of determining monitoring frequencies should be documented as part of the management system and should be available for auditing. |
1.3.The glass cullet shall not display any of the hazardous properties listed in Annex III to Directive 2008/98/EC. The glass cullet shall comply with the concentration limits laid down in Commission Decision 2000/532/ECa, and not exceed the concentration limits laid down in Annex IV of Regulation (EC) No 850/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Councilb. | Qualified staff shall carry out a visual inspection of each consignment. Where visual inspection raises any suspicion of possible hazardous properties, further appropriate monitoring measures shall be taken, such as sampling and testing where appropriate. The staff shall be trained on potential hazardous properties that may be associated with glass cullet and on material components or features that allow recognising the hazardous properties. The procedure of recognising hazardous materials shall be documented under the management system. |
Section 2. Waste used as input for the recovery operation | |
2.1.Only waste from the collection of recoverable container glass, flat glass or lead-free tableware may be used as input. The collected waste glass may unintentionally contain minor amounts of other glass types. | Acceptance control of all glass-containing waste received (by visual inspection) and of the accompanying documentation shall be carried out by qualified staff who are trained on how to recognise glass-containing waste that does not meet the criteria set out in this Section. |
2.2.Glass-containing waste from mixed municipal solid waste or healthcare waste shall not be used as an input. | |
2.3.Hazardous waste shall not be used as an input. | |
Section 3. Treatment processes and techniques | |
3.1.The glass-containing waste shall have been collected, separated and processed, and from that moment shall permanently have been kept separate from any other waste.3.2.All treatments such as: crushing, sorting, separating, or cleaning, needed to prepare the cullet for direct use (via re-melting) in the production of glass substances or objects shall have been completed. |
1. | Producer/importer of the glass cullet: Name: Address: Contact person: Telephone: Fax: E-mail: |
2. | (a) Name or code of the glass cullet category in accordance with an industry specification or standard: (b) Main technical provisions of the industry specification or standard, including compliance with EoW product quality requirements for non-glass components, i.e. content of ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, non-metal/non-glass inorganics and organics: |
3. | The glass cullet consignment complies with the industry specification or standard referred to in point 2. |
4. | Quantity of the consignment in kg: |
5. | The producer of the glass cullet applies a management system complying with the requirements of Regulation (EU) No 1179/2012, which has been verified by an accredited conformity assessment body or by an environmental verifier or, where glass cullet which has ceased to be waste is imported into the customs territory of the Union, by an independent external verifier. |
6. | The glass cullet consignment meets the criteria referred to in paragraphs 1 to 3 of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 1179/2012. |
7. | The material in this consignment is intended exclusively for direct use in the production of glass substances or objects in re-melting processes. |
8. | Declaration of the producer/importer of the glass cullet: I certify that the above information is complete and correct and to my best knowledge: Name: Date: Signature: |
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