Annex I

The scrap shall be graded according to a customer specification, an industry specification or a standard for direct use in the production of metal substances or objects by steel works or foundries.

Foreign materials are:

1. (1)

   non-ferrous metals (excluding alloying elements in any ferrous metal substrate) and non-metallic materials such as earth, dust, insulation and glass;

2. (2)

   combustible non-metallic materials such as rubber, plastic, fabric, wood and other chemical or organic substances;

3. (3)

   larger pieces (brick-size) which are non-conductors of electricity such as tyres, pipes filled with cement, wood or concrete;

4. (4)

   residues arising from steel melting, heating, surface conditioning (including scarfing), grinding, sawing, welding and torch cutting operations, such as slag, mill scale, baghouse dust, grinder dust, sludge.

The scrap shall not contain excessive ferrous oxide in any form, except for typical amounts arising from outside storage of prepared scrap under normal atmospheric conditions.

Scrap shall be free of visible oil, oily emulsions, lubricants or grease except negligible amounts that will not lead to any dripping.

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Properties of individual elements included in iron and steel alloys are not relevant for this requirement.

The scrap shall not contain any pressurised, closed or insufficiently open containers that could cause an explosion in a metalwork furnace.

Only waste containing recoverable iron or steel may be used as input.

Hazardous waste shall not be used as an input except where proof is provided that the processes and techniques specified in Section 3 of this Annex to remove all hazardous properties have been applied.

1. (a)

   filings and turnings that contain fluids such as oil or oily emulsions; and

2. (b)

   barrels and containers, except equipment from end-of-life vehicles, which contain or have contained oil or paints.

The iron or steel scrap shall have been segregated at source or while collecting and shall have been kept separate or the input waste shall have been treated to separate the iron and steel scrap from the non-metal and non-ferrous components.

All mechanical treatments (like cutting, shearing, shredding or granulating; sorting, separating, cleaning, de-polluting, emptying) needed to prepare the scrap metal for direct input into final use in steel works and foundries shall have been completed.

1. (a)

   input materials that originate from waste electrical or electronic equipment or from end-of-life vehicles shall have undergone all treatments required by F2the EU-derived domestic legislation that transposed—

   1. (i)

      Article 6 of Directive 2000/53/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on end-of life vehicles, as last amended by Commission Directive (EU) 2017/2096, and

   2. (ii)

      Article 8 of Directive 2012/19/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), as it had effect immediately before 4th July 2018.

2. (b)

   chlorofluorocarbons in discarded equipment shall have been captured in a process approved by the competent authorities;

3. (c)

   cables shall have been stripped or chopped. If a cable contains organic coatings (plastics), the organic coatings shall have been removed in accordance with the best available techniques;

4. (d)

   barrels and containers shall have been emptied and cleaned, and

5. (e)

   hazardous substances in waste that is not mentioned in point (a) shall have been efficiently removed in a process which is approved by the competent authority.