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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2000-532/annex/division-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2000-532/annex/division-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2000/532",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 3 May 2000 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 (notified under document number C(2000) 1147) (Text with EEA relevance) (2000/532/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2000-532",
  "path": "annex/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "DEFINITIONS",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Annex, the following definitions shall apply:\nA1..‘the Waste Framework Directive’ means Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste, as last amended by Directive (EU) 2018/851, and read as if, in Annex 3, in entry HP 9, in the second sentence, “in the Member States” were omitted;\nA2..‘waste’, ‘hazardous waste’ and ‘non-hazardous waste’ have the meanings given in the Waste Framework Directive;\n1..‘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;\n2..‘heavy metal’ means any compound of antimony, arsenic, cadmium, chromium (VI), copper, lead, mercury, nickel, selenium, tellurium, thallium and tin, as well as these materials in metallic form, as far as these are classified as hazardous substances;\n3..‘polychlorinated biphenyls and polychlorinated terphenyls’ (‘PCBs’) means PCBs as defined in Article 2(a) of Council Directive 96/59/EC;\n4..‘transition metals’ means any of the following metals: any compound of scandium, vanadium, manganese, cobalt, copper, yttrium, niobium, hafnium, tungsten, titanium, chromium, iron, nickel, zinc, zirconium, molybdenum and tantalum, as well as these materials in metallic form, as far as these are classified as hazardous substances;\n5..‘stabilisation’ means processes which change the hazardousness of the constituents in the waste and transform hazardous waste into non-hazardous waste;\n6..‘solidification’ means processes which only change the physical state of the waste by using additives without changing the chemical properties of the waste;\n7..‘partly stabilised wastes’ means wastes containing, after the stabilisation process, hazardous constituents which have not been changed completely into non-hazardous constituents and could be released into the environment in the short, middle or long term.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Decision of 18 December 2014 amending Decision 2000/532/EC on the list of waste pursuant to Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/955/EU)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Annex inserted (31.12.2020) by The Waste and Environmental Permitting etc. (Legislative Functions and Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1540), regs. 1(2), 16(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Council Directive 96/59/EC of 16 September 1996 on the disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls and polychlorinated terphenyls (PCB/PCT) ( OJ L 243, 24.9.1996, p. 31 )."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}