2005 No. 300

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Hazardous Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Made

Coming into operation

The Department of the Environment, being a department designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722 in relation to measures relating to the regulation and control of the transit, import and export of waste (including recyclable materials), the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution caused by waste and the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 30, 48 and 77 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 19973 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations: