{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1987-217/article-8",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1987/217",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 19 March 1987 on the prevention and reduction of environmental pollution by asbestos (87/217/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1987-217",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Without prejudice to Directive 78/319/EEC, as last amended by the 1985 Act of Accession, Member States shall take the measures necessary to ensure that:\nin the course of the transport and deposition of waste containing asbestos fibres or dust, no such fibres or dust are released into the air and no liquids which may contain asbestos fibres are spilled,\nwhere waste containing asbestos fibres or dust is landfilled at sites licensed for the purpose, such waste is so treated, packaged or covered, with account being taken of local conditions, that the release of asbestos particles into the environment is prevented.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L 84, 31. 3. 1978, p. 43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1987/217/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:32.671330+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."
}