Article 1 Waste characterisation

United Kingdom

F1The appropriate agency shall ensure that the waste characterisation to be carried out by operators in the extractive industries complies with this Decision.

Waste characterisation shall cover the following categories of information as specified in the Annex:

(a)

background information;

(b)

geological background of deposit to be exploited;

(c)

nature of the waste and its intended handling;

(d)

geotechnical behaviour of the waste;

(e)

geochemical characteristics and behaviour of the waste.

The criteria for defining inert waste laid down in Decision 2009/359/EC shall be taken into account for the purpose of assessing the geochemical behaviour of waste. Where, on the basis of those criteria, waste is considered to be ‘inert’, it shall be only subject to the relevant part of geochemical testing referred to in point 5 of the Annex.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Art. 1(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/620), regs. 1(2)(b), 20(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)