# 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, Division A: Non-recovery operations

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

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.
D20 Deposit in an aboveground engineered landfill isolated from the environment
D21 Surface impoundment (e.g. placement of liquids or sludge into pits, basins or tailing dams)
D22 Deposit onto land other than covered by D20 and D21 (e.g. permanent aboveground storage)
D23 Permanent underground storage (e.g. placement of containers in a mine)
D24 Deposit into land other than covered by D23 (e.g. injection into wells, salt domes of naturally occurring repositories)
D25 Treatment of land in situ (e.g. biodegradation or biological or chemical treatment)
D26 Release into a water body except seas/oceans
D27 Release into seas/oceans including sea-bed insertion
D28 Release to the atmosphere (e.g. venting of compressed or liquefied gases)
D29 Thermal treatment other than covered by R24 in section B (e.g. incineration)
D30 Non-recovery other than covered by D20 to D29
D31 Biological treatment prior to submission to any of the operations in section A
D32 Mixing, including blending, prior to submission to any of the operations in section A
D33 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
D34 Repackaging prior to submission to any of the operations in section A
D35 Other treatment than covered by D31 to D34 prior to submission to any of the operations in section A
D36 Temporary storage prior to submission to any of the operations in section A

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2020/1829/annex/part/I/division/ANNEX/division/A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1829/annex/part-I/division-ANNEX/division-A
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