Article 2A Meaning of “Directive 2008/98/EC”F1

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1357/2014^f1;

Commission Directive (EU) 2015/1127^f2; and

Council Regulation (EU) 2017/997^f3,

in paragraph 2—

after paragraph 2 there were inserted—

“2A. In paragraph 2(d), as it relates to England and Wales, “Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the management of waste from extractive industries^f6” means Directive 2006/21/EC read as if—

(a)

in Article 2 of Directive 2006/21/EC—

(i)

in paragraph 2(c), “Article 11(3)(j) of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy^f7” had the meaning given in paragraph 2B;

(ii)

paragraphs 3 and 4 were omitted;

(b)

in Article 3(1) of Directive 2006/21/EC, for “Article 1(a) of Directive 75/442/EC” there were substituted “Article 3(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC”.

2B. For the purposes of paragraph 2A(a)(i), “Article 11(3)(j) of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy” means Article 11(3)(j) of Directive 2000/60/EC read as if—

(a)

the reference to “Member States” were a reference to—

(i)

in relation to England, the Secretary of State or the Environment Agency;

(ii)

in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;

(iii)

in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers or the Scottish Environment Protection Agency;

(iv)

in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers or the Natural Resources Body for Wales;

(b)

in the words after the final indent, “environmental objectives”—

(i)

in relation to the Northumbria River Basin District, means the objectives referred to in the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017) as applied by regulation 5 of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria River Basin District) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3245);

(ii)

in relation to the Solway Tweed River Basin District, has the same meaning as in regulation 2 of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Solway Tweed River Basin District) Regulations 2004;

(iii)

in relation to a river basin district within the meaning of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017, has the same meaning as in those regulations.”.

paragraphs 1 to 3 were omitted;

in paragraph 4—

in paragraph 1—

after paragraph 1, there were inserted—

“1A.

Paragraph 1 is subject to—

(a)

a determination by the Secretary of State under regulation 8(1) of the Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005, or by the Welsh Ministers under regulation 8(1) of the Hazardous Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005, or by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs under regulation 9(1) of the Hazardous Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005, that a specific batch of waste is to be treated as hazardous waste;

(b)

a decision made by the Secretary of State under regulation 9(1) of the Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005, or by the Welsh Ministers under regulation 9(1) of the Hazardous Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005, or by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs under regulation 10(1) of the Hazardous Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005, that a specific batch of waste is to be treated as non-hazardous waste;

(c)

the treating of a specific batch of waste as hazardous or, as the case may be, non-hazardous, in accordance with regulations 8(2) or 9(2) of the Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005, regulations 8(2) or 9(2) of the Hazardous Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005 or regulations 9(2) or 10(2) of the Hazardous Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005;

(d)

regulations (if any) made by the Secretary of State under section 62A(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 or by the Welsh Ministers under section 62A(2) of that Act (lists of waste displaying hazardous properties);

(e)

a determination by the Scottish Ministers that a specific batch or type of waste—

(i)

is to be treated as hazardous waste because the Scottish Ministers consider that the waste displays one or more of the hazardous properties listed in Annex 3;

(ii)

is to be treated as non-hazardous waste because the Scottish Ministers consider that the waste displays none of the hazardous properties listed in Annex 3.”;

paragraphs 2, 3 and 5 were omitted;

after paragraph 6, there were inserted—

“6A.

In this Article, the “list of waste” means the list established by Commission Decision 2000/532/EC.”;

paragraph 7 were omitted.

in the entry for HP 9, in the second sentence, “in the Member States” were omitted;

in the entry for HP 15, in the sentence immediately after Table 9, for “Member States” there were substituted “the competent authority of destination and dispatch determined in accordance with regulation 6 of the Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations 2007”.