# 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 1A


(1.) For the purposes of Article 1, Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and the Council concerning the management of waste from extractive industries is to be read in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3.
(2.) A reference to one or more member States in a provision 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 3 is to be read as if—
(a) in point (1), for “Article 1(a) of Directive 75/442/EEC” there were substituted “ Article 3(1) of the Waste Framework Directive, as read with Articles 5 and 6 of that Directive ”;
(b) in point (2), for “Article 1(4) of Council Directive 91/689/EEC of 12 December 1991 on hazardous waste” there were substituted “ Article 3(2) of the Waste Framework Directive ”;
(c) in point (4), for the words from “the national law” to the end there were substituted “ national law ”;
(d) in point (24), for the words from “the national law” to “takes place” there were substituted “ national law ”.
(4.) In paragraph 2—
(a) “appropriate agency” has the meaning given in Article 1(5);
(b) “appropriate authority” means—
(i) in relation to England, the Secretary of State;
(ii) in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;
(c) “local authority” means—
(i) in England outside Greater London—
— a district council,
— a county council, or
— the Council of the Isles of Scilly;
(ii) in Greater London—
— the council of a London borough,
— the Common Council of the City of London,
— the Sub-Treasurer of the Inner Temple, or
— the Under-Treasurer of the Middle Temple;
(iii) in Wales—
— a county council, or
— a county borough council.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2009/359/article/1A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-359/article-1A
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