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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-waste-management-plan-for-scotland-regulations-2007/regulation-2A",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/251",
  "legislation_title": "The National Waste Management Plan for Scotland Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-waste-management-plan-for-scotland-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": "Interpretation: the Waste Directive",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n(a) “the Waste Directive” means Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste and repealing certain Directives, as last amended by Directive (EU) 2018/851 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and\n(b) other expressions used in the Waste Directive have the same meanings as in that Directive.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2A inserted (27.3.2011) by The Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/226), regs. 1(1), 5(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 2A(a) substituted (1.7.2016) by The Waste (Meaning of Recovery) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/438), arts. 1, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2A(a) substituted (28.2.2019) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/391), regs. 1(1), 14(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2A(a) substituted (4.12.2020) by The Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/314), regs. 1(1), 5(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/251/regulation/2A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:13:32.579133+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}