Division 4.6 Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste

As regards Directive 1999/31/EC, the Commission should be empowered to adapt the Annexes thereto to scientific and technical progress and to adopt measures for the standardisation of control, sampling and analysis methods. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Directive 1999/31/EC, inter alia, by supplementing it with new non-essential elements, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.

Accordingly, Directive 1999/31/EC is hereby amended as follows:

1. 1..

   Article 16 shall be replaced by the following:

   ‘Committee procedure

   Article 16

   Measures necessary to adapt the Annexes to this Directive to scientific and technical progress and to establish the standardisation of control, sampling and analysis methods in relation to the landfill of waste shall be adopted by the Commission, assisted by the Committee established by Article 18 of Directive 2006/12/EC. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, inter alia, by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 17(3). To this end, as regards Annex II, the Committee shall take into account the general principles and general procedures for testing and acceptance criteria set out in Annex II and shall set specific criteria and/or test methods and associated limit values for each class of landfill, including if necessary specific types of landfill within each class, including underground storage.

   The Commission shall, in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 17(2), adopt, and when necessary amend, provisions for the harmonisation and regular transmission of the statistical data referred to in Articles 5, 7 and 11.’;

2. 2..

   Article 17(3) shall be replaced by the following:

   ‘3.

   Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.’