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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1999-31/annex-II/division-2",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1999/31",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1999-31",
  "path": "annex/II/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "General principles",
  "text": "The composition, leachability, long-term behaviour and general properties of a waste to be landfilled must be known as precisely as possible. Waste acceptance at a landfill can be based either on lists of accepted or refused waste, defined by nature and origin, and on waste analysis methods and limit values for the properties of the waste to be accepted. The future waste acceptance procedures described in this Directive shall as far as possible be based on standardised waste analysis methods and limit values for the properties of waste to be accepted.\nBefore the definition of such analysis methods and limit values, Member States should at least set national lists of waste to be accepted or refuses at each class of landfill, or defined the criteria required to be on the lists. In order to be accepted at a particular class of landfill, a type of waste must be on the relevant national list or fulfil criteria similar to those required to be on the list. These lists, or the equivalent criteria, and the analysis methods and limit values shall be sent to the Commission within six months of the transposition of this Directive or whenever they are adopted at national level.\nThese lists or acceptance criteria should be used to establish site specific lists, i.e. the list of accepted waste specified in the permit in accordance with Article 9 of this Directive.\nThe criteria for acceptance of waste on the reference lists or at a class of landfill may be based on other legislation and/or on waste properties.\nCriteria for acceptance at a specific class of landfill must be derived from considerations pertaining to:\nprotection of the surrounding environment (in particular groundwater and surface water),\nprotection of the environmental protection systems (e.g. liners and leachate treatment systems),\nprotection of the desired waste-stabilisation processes within the landfill,\nprotection against human-health hazards.\nExamples of waste property-based criteria are:\nrequirements on knowledge of total composition,\nlimitations on the amount of organic matter in the waste,\nrequirements or limitations on the biodegradability of the organic waste components,\nlimitations on the amount of specified, potentially harmful/hazardous components (in relation to the abovementioned protection criteria),\nlimitations on the potential and expected leachability of specified, potentially harmful/hazardous components (in relation to the abovementioned protection criteria),\necotoxicological properties of the waste and the resulting leachate.\nThe property-based criteria for acceptance of waste must generally be most extensive for inert waste landfills and can be less extensive for non-hazardous waste landfills and least extensive for hazardous waste landfills owing to the higher environmental protection level of the latter two.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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