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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-333/article-2B",
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  "legislation": "eur/2011/333",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU) No 333/2011 of 31 March 2011 establishing criteria determining when certain types of scrap metal cease to be waste under Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-333",
  "path": "article/2B",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2B",
  "heading": "Meaning of “the Mining Waste Directive” and “the Industrial Emissions Directive”",
  "text": "1. In Article 2A(3)(a)(iii), “the Mining Waste Directive” means Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the management of waste from extractive industries, read in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3.\n2. Article 2 is to be read as if—\n(a) in paragraph 2(c), the reference to Article 11(3)(j) of Directive 2000/60/EC were a reference to that Article read in accordance with paragraph 7 of this Article;\n(b) paragraphs 3 and 4 were omitted.\n3. Article 3(1) is to be read as if, for “Article 1(a) of Directive 75/442/EEC” there were substituted “ Article 3(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC, as read with Articles 5 and 6 of that Directive ”.\n4. In Article 2A(4), “the Industrial Emissions Directive” means Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control), read in accordance with paragraphs 5 and 6.\n5. Article 3 is to be read as if—\n(a) in point (1)(a), for the words from “Article 1” to the end there were substituted “ Article 4(78) of Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom laying down basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation ”;\n(b) in point (10)(b), for “Member State in question” there were substituted “ United Kingdom ”;\n(c) in point (23), for the words from “point 1” to the end there were substituted “ point 1 of the second subparagraph of Article 2 of Council Directive 2009/158/EC on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in, and imports from third countries of, poultry and hatching eggs ”;\n(d) in point (37), for the words from “of the European” to the end there were substituted “ , read with Articles 5 and 6 of that Directive ”.\n6. Annex 1 is to be read as if—\n(a) in the words before point 1, the second paragraph were omitted;\n(b) in point 5.3—\n(i) in point (a), in the words before point (i), for “Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment” there were substituted “ the Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994 ”;\n(ii) in point (b), in the words before point (i), for “Directive 91/271/EEC” there were substituted “ the Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994 ”;\n(c) in point 5.4, the reference to Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste were a reference to the Landfill Directive;\n(d) in point 6.9, for “Directive 2009/31/EC” there were substituted “ the EU-derived domestic legislation which transposed Directive 2009/31/EC in respect of England and Wales ”;\n(e) in point 6.11, for “Directive 91/271/EEC” there were substituted “ the Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994 ”.\n(7.) For the purposes of paragraph 2(a), Article 11(3)(j) of Directive 2000/60/EC is to be read as if—\n(a) the reference to “Member States” were a reference to the appropriate authority or the competent authority;\n(b) in the words after the final indent, “environmental objectives”—\n(i) in relation to the Northumbria River Basin District, means the environmental objectives referred to in the WFD Regulations as applied by regulation 5 of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria River Basin District) Regulations 2003;\n(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;\n(iii) in relation to a river basin district within the meaning of the WFD Regulations, has the same meaning as in those Regulations.\n8. In paragraph 6(c), “the Landfill Directive” means Council Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste, as last amended by Directive (EU) 2018/850, and read as if, in Article 2—\n(a) in point (a) “‘waste’,” were omitted; and\n(b) after point (a) there were inserted—\n“(aa) “waste” means anything that—\n(i) is waste within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC, as read with Articles 5 and 6 of that Directive, and\n(ii) is not excluded from the scope of that Directive by Article 2(1), (2) or (3) of that Directive;”.\n9. In paragraph 7—\n(a) in point (a), “the appropriate authority” has the meaning given by Article 2A(9);\n(b) in point (b), “the WFD Regulations” means the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. 2A, 2B inserted (31.12.2020) by The Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/620), regs. 1(2)(b), 9(3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1540, regs. 1(3), 14(5)(a)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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