Regulation 4 Amendment of Part I (General)I1

The following definitions are inserted at the appropriate places in regulation 2(2) –

• ““European Waste Catalogue” means the list of wastes set out in the Annex to Commission Decision 2000/532/EC, as for the time being amended^f1; and

• “SIC Code” means a code included in “the United Kingdom Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities 2003”, published by the Office for National Statistics in 2002 and implemented on 1st January 2003^f2; and

• “Stable, non-reactive hazardous waste” means hazardous waste, the leaching behaviour of which will not change adversely in the long-term under landfill design conditions or foreseeable accidents –

  1. (a)

     in the waste alone (for example, by biodegradation);

  2. (b)

     under the impact of long-term ambient conditions (for example, water, air, temperature, mechanical constraints); or

  3. (c)

     by the impact of other wastes (including waste products such as leachate and gas);””.

For the definition of “relevant waste acceptance criteria” in regulation 2(2) substitute –

• ““relevant waste acceptance criteria” means in relation to a landfill, the waste acceptance criteria under Parts I and III of Schedule 1 which apply to the class of landfill to which that landfill belongs;”