# Council Decision of 19 December 2002 establishing criteria and procedures for the acceptance of waste at landfills pursuant to Article 16 of and Annex II to Directive 1999/31/EC (2003/33/EC), Division 3: SAMPLING AND TEST METHODS

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Sampling and testing for basic characterisation and compliance testing shall be carried out by independent and qualified persons and institutions. Laboratories shall have proven experience in waste testing and analysis and an efficient quality assurance system.
The appropriate authority may decide that:
1..the sampling may be carried out by producers of waste or operators under the condition that sufficient supervision of independent and qualified persons or institutions ensures that the objectives set out in this Decision are achieved;
2..the testing of the waste may be carried out by producers of waste or operators if they have set up an appropriate quality assurance system including periodic independent checking.
As long as a CEN standard is not available as formal EN, the appropriate authority will use either national standards or procedures or the draft CEN standard, when it has reached the prEN stage.
The following methods shall be used.
This list will be amended when more CEN standards are available.
For tests and analyses, for which CEN methods are not (yet) available, the methods used must be approved by the competent authorities.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2003/33/annex/division/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2003-33/annex/division-3
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