# Commission Decision of 30 April 2009 completing the definition of inert waste in implementation of Article 22(1)(f) of Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and the Council concerning the management of waste from extractive industries (notified under document number C(2009) 3012) (2009/359/EC), Article 1

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

1. Waste shall be considered as being inert waste, within the meaning of the relevant definition provision, where all of the following criteria, are fulfilled in both the short and the long term:
(a) the waste will not undergo any significant disintegration or dissolution or other significant change likely to cause any adverse environmental effect or harm human health;
(b) the waste has a maximum content of sulphide sulphur of 0,1 %, or the waste has a maximum content of sulphide sulphur of 1 % and the neutralising potential ratio, defined as the ratio between the neutralising potential and the acid potential, and determined on the basis of a static test prEN 15875 is greater than 3;
(c) the waste presents no risk of self-combustion and will not burn;
(d) the content of substances potentially harmful to the environment or human health in the waste, and in particular As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Hg, Mo, Ni, Pb, V and Zn, including in any fine particles alone of the waste, is sufficiently low to be of insignificant human and ecological risk, in both the short and the long term. In order to be considered as sufficiently low to be of insignificant human and ecological risk, the content of these substances shall not exceed national threshold values for sites identified as not contaminated or relevant national natural background levels;
(e) the waste is substantially free of products used in extraction or processing that could harm the environment or human health.
2. Waste may be considered as inert waste without specific testing if it can be demonstrated, to the satisfaction of the competent authority, that the criteria set out in paragraph 1 have been adequately considered and are met on the strength of existing information or valid procedures or schemes.
3. The appropriate agency may draw up lists of waste materials to be regarded as inert in accordance with the criteria defined in paragraphs 1 and 2.
(4.) In paragraph 1, “the relevant definition provision”—
(a) as it extends to England and Wales, means Article 3(3) of Directive 2006/21/EC;
(b) as it extends to Scotland, means regulation 2(1) of the Management of Extractive Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2010;
(c) as it extends to Northern Ireland, means regulation 2(2) of the Planning (Management of Waste from Extractive Industries) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015.
(5.) In paragraph 3, “appropriate agency” means—
(a) in relation to England, the Environment Agency;
(b) in relation to Wales, the Natural Resources Body for Wales;
(c) in relation to Scotland—
(i) a planning authority, or
(ii) a National Park authority within the meaning of section 35(1) of the National Parks (Scotland) Act 2000 (as the case may be);
(d) in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.
(6.) A term which is used in this Article—
(a) as it extends to Scotland and which is defined in regulation 2(1) of the Management of Extractive Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2010 has the meaning given by that regulation;
(b) as it extends to Northern Ireland and which is defined in regulation 2(2) of the Planning (Management of Waste from Extractive Industries) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 has the meaning given by that regulation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2009/359/article/1 (the official version)
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