# 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 B: Recovery operations

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

A recovery operation is an operation the principal result of which is waste serving a useful purpose by replacing other materials which would otherwise have been used to fulfil a particular function, or waste being prepared to fulfil that function, in the plant or in the wider economy.
R20 Preparing for reuse (e.g. checking, cleaning, repair, refurbishment)
R21 Recycling of organic substances (e.g. physical/mechanical treatment, chemical treatment)
R22 Recycling of metals and metal compounds (e.g. smelting, hydrometallurgy, physical/mechanical treatment)
R23 Recycling of inorganic materials other than covered by R22 (e.g. physical/mechanical treatment, chemical treatment)
R24 Thermal treatment with the principal result to generate energy (e.g. incineration)
R25 Recovery other than covered by R20 to R24
R26 Biological treatment prior to submission to any of the operations in section B
R27 Mixing, including blending, prior to submission to any of the operations in section B
R28 Manual treatment (e.g. separation), physical/mechanical treatment other than covered by R27 (e.g. separation, size reduction, evaporation, drying, autoclaving), physical/chemical treatment (e.g. solvent extraction) or chemical treatment (e.g. neutralization, precipitation) prior to submission to any of the operations in section B
R29 Repackaging prior to submission to any of the operations in section B
R30 Other treatment than covered by R26 to R29 prior to submission to any of the operations in section B
R31 Temporary storage prior to submission to any of the operations in section B

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