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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1829/annex/part-I/division-ANNEX/division-A",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2020/1829",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2020/1829 of 24 November 2020 on the submission, on behalf of the European Union, of proposals to amend Annex IV and certain entries in Annexes II and IX to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal for consideration at the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, and on the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union at that meeting as regards proposals by other Parties to that Convention to amend Annex IV and certain entries in Annexes II, VIII and IX to that Convention",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1829",
  "path": "annex/part/I/division/ANNEX/division/A",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "A",
  "heading": "Non-recovery operations",
  "text": "A non-recovery operation is an operation which is not a recovery operation even where the operation has as a secondary consequence the reclamation of substances or energy.\nD20 Deposit in an aboveground engineered landfill isolated from the environment\nD21 Surface impoundment (e.g. placement of liquids or sludge into pits, basins or tailing dams)\nD22 Deposit onto land other than covered by D20 and D21 (e.g. permanent aboveground storage)\nD23 Permanent underground storage (e.g. placement of containers in a mine)\nD24 Deposit into land other than covered by D23 (e.g. injection into wells, salt domes of naturally occurring repositories)\nD25 Treatment of land in situ (e.g. biodegradation or biological or chemical treatment)\nD26 Release into a water body except seas/oceans\nD27 Release into seas/oceans including sea-bed insertion\nD28 Release to the atmosphere (e.g. venting of compressed or liquefied gases)\nD29 Thermal treatment other than covered by R24 in section B (e.g. incineration)\nD30 Non-recovery other than covered by D20 to D29\nD31 Biological treatment prior to submission to any of the operations in section A\nD32 Mixing, including blending, prior to submission to any of the operations in section A\nD33 Manual treatment (e.g. separation), physical/mechanical treatment other than covered by D32 (e.g. separation, size reduction, evaporation, drying, autoclaving), physical/chemical treatment (e.g. solvent extraction), chemical treatment (e.g. neutralization, chemical precipitation) or immobilization (e.g. stabilization, solidification) prior to submission to any of the operations in section A\nD34 Repackaging prior to submission to any of the operations in section A\nD35 Other treatment than covered by D31 to D34 prior to submission to any of the operations in section A\nD36 Temporary storage prior to submission to any of the operations in section A",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2020/1829/annex/part/I/division/ANNEX/division/A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:03.848391+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."
}