The Hazardous Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (Version in vigour from 2017-01-01 to )
| Currency | No known outstanding effects |
| Coming into Force | 01 January 2017 |
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Hazardous Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 1st July 2015.(2) Regulations 7 to 9 and 11 apply to England only.in each of subsections (1) (b) and (2) (b) , for “Directive in subsection (3) , for “Commission Decision (1) The Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005 (2) For paragraph (1) (a) of regulation 2 “the Waste Directive” means Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste;(3) In paragraph (a) of regulation 3 (4) For paragraph (1) of regulation 4 In these Regulations, “the List of Wastes” means the list of wastes established by Commission Decision 2000/532/EC replacing Decision 94/3/EC establishing a list of wastes pursuant to Article 1(a) of Council Directive 75/442/EEC on waste and Council Decision 94/904/EC establishing a list of hazardous waste pursuant to Article 1(4) of Council Directive 91/689/EEC on hazardous waste, as amended from time to time.(5) In paragraph (2) of regulation 8 (specific waste to be treated as hazardous) , for “Article 3 of the List of Wastes Decision”, substitute “ Article 7(2) of the Waste Directive ” .(6) In paragraph (2) of regulation 9 (specific waste to be treated as non-hazardous) , for “Article 3 of the List of Wastes Decision”, substitute “ Article 7(3) of the Waste Directive ” .(7) Omit Schedule 3 (8) For Schedule 8 (form of consignee's return to producer or holder) , substitute the text at Schedule 1 (new Schedule 8) .For the definition of “appliance” in paragraph (1) of regulation 2 of the Batteries and Accumulators (Placing on the Market) Regulations 2008
in paragraph (1) , for “listed in code 18 01 02 or 18 01 03 of Schedule 1 to the List of Wastes Regulations”, substitute in paragraph (2) , for the definition of “List of Wastes Regulations”, substitute— For the definition of “appliance” in paragraph (1) of regulation 2 of the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009
(1) The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 for the definition of “the Waste Framework Directive”for the definition of “the WEEE Directive”, substitute—“ hazardous substance ” ;for sub-paragraph (5) , substitute—“ hazardous substances ” ;in section 2 of chapter 5, in the second column of the row beginning “150202*” in the table at sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 1, for “dangerous substances”, substitute “ hazardous substances ” .in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 2, for “Article 3(b) ”, substitute “ Article 3(1) (e) ” ;in sub-paragraph (1) , for “Article 6(1) first paragraph and Article 6(3) and (4) ”, substitute “ Articles 8(1) to (3) and 9(3) ” ;for sub-paragraph (2) , substitute—
- (2) In this Part, a six digit code used to refer to a waste is a reference to the waste specified by the six digit code in the List of Wastes except insofar as the waste in this Part in relation to such a code does not include some of the types of waste specified by the code in the List
- (5) In this paragraph, “hazardous substance” means a substance classified as hazardous as a consequence of fulfilling the criteria laid down in Parts 2 to 5 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures .
- (2) But when interpreting the WEEE Directive for the purposes of this paragraph, ignore the following words in Article 9(3) —
- (a) “or the registration referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2”; and
- (b) “and for the achievement of the recovery targets set out in Article 11”.
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