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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/288",
  "legislation_title": "The Hazardous Waste (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThese Regulations are made under Section 2(2) of and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972. They amend a number of pieces of Northern Ireland legislation to bring into effect the changes introduced by Commission Decision 2014/955/EU amending Decision 2000/532/EC (the Decision) on the list of waste pursuant to Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council. Commission Decision 2000/532/EC is directly binding as regards determination of waste that is to be considered as hazardous waste. The changes being introduced by way of the updated Decision came into effect on 1 June 2015.\nRegulation 2 amends the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 to insert a definition of ‘List of Wastes’.\nRegulation 3 amends the Controlled Waste (Duty of Care) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 to update the definition of the European Waste Catalogue to reflect the new requirements.\nRegulation 4 provides for similar updating amendments to the Waste Management Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003.\nRegulation 5 amends the Hazardous Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 to remove references to the List of Wastes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and Article 3 of the Decision and, where appropriate, replaces such references to directly apply the Decision, Article 7 of and Annex III to Directive 2008/98/EC.\nRegulation 6 revokes the List of Wastes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005.\nRegulation 7 revokes the Hazardous Waste (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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