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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1417",
  "legislation_title": "The Hazardous Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/4",
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  "number": "4",
  "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 2(1) (interpretation: general) in the definition of “WEEE”, for “Article 3(b)” substitute “ Article 3(1)(e) ”.\n(3) 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(4) In paragraph 1 of chapter 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 3, (exempt facilities: descriptions and conditions)—\n(a) 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(b) 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(5) In section 2 of chapter 3 of part 1 of Schedule 3—\n(a) in paragraph 1—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (3)(e), for “dangerous substance” substitute “ hazardous substance ”;\n(ii) 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 1 to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures .”;\n(b) in paragraph 11 sub-paragraph (3)(c), for “Annex III” substitute “ Annex VIII ”; and\n(c) in the table at paragraph 15(2), in the second column of the row beginning “160504*”, for “dangerous substances”, substitute “ hazardous substances ”.\n(6) In section 2 of chapter 5 of part 1 of Schedule 3, in the table at paragraph 1(2), in the second column of the row beginning “150202*”, for “dangerous substances” substitute “ hazardous substances ”.\n(7) In Schedule 12 (waste electrical and electronic equipment)—\n(a) in paragraph 2, sub-paragraph (1), 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",
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      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/675, of which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "OJ No L 312, 22.11.2008, p. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "OJ No L 197, 24.7.2012, p.38."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "OJ No L 353, 31.12.2008, p.1, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1297/2014 (OJ No L 350, 6.12.14, p.1)."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1417/regulation/4",
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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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