{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1032/annex/division-1.6/division-1.6.4/division-bat+149",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1032/annex/division-1.6/division-1.6.4/division-bat+149.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2016/1032",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1032 of 13 June 2016 establishing best available techniques (BAT) conclusions, under Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, for the non-ferrous metals industries (notified under document C(2016) 3563) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1032",
  "path": "annex/division/1.6/division/1.6.4/division/bat+149",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "BAT 149",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In order to reduce the quantities of waste sent for disposal, BAT is to organise operations on site so as to facilitate process residues reuse or, failing that, process residues recycling, including by using one or a combination of the techniques given below.\nTechnique\nProcess\na\nRecovery of the metal content from slags, filter dust and residues of the wet dedusting system\nDoré production\nb\nRecovery of the selenium collected in the wet dedusting system’s off-gases containing volatilised selenium\nc\nRecovery of silver from spent electrolyte and spent slime washing solutions\nSilver electrolytic refining\nd\nRecovery of metals from residues from electrolyte purification (e.g. silver cement, copper carbonate-based residue)\ne\nRecovery of gold from electrolyte, slimes and solutions from the gold leaching processes\nGold electrolytic refining\nf\nRecovery of metals from spent anodes\nSilver or gold electrolytic refining\ng\nRecovery of platinum group metals from platinum group metal-enriched solutions\nh\nRecovery of metals from the treatment of process end liquors\nAll processes",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2016/1032/annex/division/1.6/division/1.6.4/division/bat+149",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:55.916563+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}