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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2015/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1360",
  "legislation_title": "The Hazardous Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010",
  "text": "(1) The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 3 (interpretation: Directives)—\n(a) for the definition of “the Waste Framework Directive”, substitute—\n““the Waste Framework Directive” means Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste;”;\n(b) for the definition of “the WEEE Directive”, substitute—\n““the WEEE Directive” means Directive 2012/19/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).”.\n(3) In Part 1 of Schedule 3 (exempt facilities: descriptions and conditions)—\n(a) in paragraph 1 of chapter 1—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (1), at the appropriate place insert—\n““List of Wastes” means the list of wastes established by Commission Decision 2000/532/EC replacing Decision 94/3/EC establishing a list of wastes pursuant to Article 1(a) of Council Directive 75/442/EEC on waste and Council Decision 94/904/EC establishing a list of hazardous waste pursuant to Article 1(4) of Council Directive 91/689/EEC on hazardous waste, as amended from time to time;”;\n(ii) for sub-paragraph (2), substitute—\n“(2) In this Part, a six digit code used to refer to a waste is a reference to the waste specified by the six digit code in the List of Wastes except insofar as the waste in this Part in relation to such a code does not include some of the types of waste specified by the code in the List”;\n(b) in section 2 of chapter 3—\n(i) in paragraph 1—\n(aa) in sub-paragraph (3)(e), for “dangerous substance”, substitute “ hazardous substance ”;\n(bb) for sub-paragraph (5), substitute—\n“(5) In this paragraph, “hazardous substance” means a substance classified as hazardous as a consequence of fulfilling the criteria laid down in Parts 2 to 5 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures .”;\n(ii) in the second column of the row beginning “160504*” in the table at sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 15, for “dangerous substances”, substitute “ hazardous substances ”;\n(c) in section 2 of chapter 5, in the second column of the row beginning “150202*” in the table at sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 1, for “dangerous substances”, substitute “ hazardous substances ”.\n(4) In Schedule 12 (waste electrical and electronic equipment)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 2, for “Article 3(b)”, substitute “ Article 3(1)(e) ”;\n(b) in paragraph 3—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (1), for “Article 6(1) first paragraph and Article 6(3) and (4)”, substitute “ Articles 8(1) to (3) and 9(3) ”;\n(ii) for sub-paragraph (2), substitute—\n“(2) But when interpreting the WEEE Directive for the purposes of this paragraph, ignore the following words in Article 9(3)—\n(a) “or the registration referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2”; and\n(b) “and for the achievement of the recovery targets set out in Article 11”.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/675, amended by S.I. 2011/988; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "The definition of “the Waste Framework Directive” in regulation 3 was substituted by S.I. 2011/988."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "OJ No L 353, 31.12.2008, p.1, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1297/2014 (OJ No L 350, 6.12.2014, p.1)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1360/regulation/7",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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