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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-248/annex/part-B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-248/annex/part-B.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2020/248",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/248 of 21 February 2020 laying down technical guidelines for inspections in accordance with Article 17 of Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document C(2020) 889) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-248",
  "path": "annex/part/B",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "B",
  "heading": "Definition",
  "text": "For the purpose of these guidelines, ‘inspection’ means all activities undertaken by a competent authority or on its behalf in order to ensure compliance by mining waste facilities with the conditions of the permit that they have to obtain. These activities may include in particular:\nassessing relevant environmental and safety issues and the risks presented by the waste facilities;\ncarrying out site visits to check premises, site conditions, relevant equipment, including whether it is adequately maintained, relevant documents and electronic data, internal measures and systems and operating processes;\ninterviewing staff working at the waste facility;\nreinforcing operators’ knowledge of the relevant legal requirements and the environmental impacts of the activities of the operators;\ntaking samples;\nusing earth observation techniques and other forms of remote surveillance, including those involving in situ sensors, where appropriate;\nverifying operators’ self-monitoring;\nchecking documents and electronic data, including operator’s reports, other than by means of site visits;\nchecking operators’ internal measures and systems and operating processes other than by means of site visits;\nchecking financial guarantees or equivalent;\nrecording factual information on non-compliance;\nidentifying the reasons for detected non-compliance and the possible types of impacts of such non-compliance on the environment and human health;\ndescribing detected non-compliance, in particular the circumstances (including the persons) which led to non-compliance, in order to identify, as far as possible, what actions are needed to ensure compliance and enable them, including by cooperating and sharing inspection findings with other relevant competent authorities.\nInspections, including site visits, may be routine, i.e. carried out as part of a regular set of activities, and non-routine, i.e. carried out in response to serious complaints or for the investigation of serious accidents, incidents and other occurrences of non-compliance.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex Pt. B substituted (31.12.2020) by The Waste and Environmental Permitting etc. (Legislative Functions and Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1540), regs. 1(2), 17(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2020/248/annex/part/B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:22.808630+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."
}