Regulation 2B Modification of the Mining Waste DirectiveF1

(1)

For the purposes of these Regulations, the Mining Waste Directive is to be read as follows.

(2)

A reference to one or more member States imposing an obligation or conferring a discretion on a member State or member States is to be read as a reference to the appropriate authority, appropriate agency or local authority which, immediately before IP completion day, was responsible for the United Kingdom's compliance with that obligation or able to exercise that discretion in respect of England or Wales.

(3)

Article 2 is to be read as if—

(a)

in paragraph 2(c), the reference to Article 11(3)(j) of Directive 2000/60/EC were a reference to that Article read in accordance with regulation 2C;

(b)

paragraphs 3 and 4 were omitted.

(4)

Article 3(1) is to be read as if, for “Article 1(a) of Directive 75/442/EC” there were substituted “ Article 3(1) of the Waste Directive, as read with Articles 5 and 6 of that Directive ”.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Regs. 2A-2C inserted (31.12.2020) by The Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/188), regs. 1(2)(b), 17(3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1540, regs. 1(2)(3), 11(2)(11)(b)(c)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)