Citation, commencement and application

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Hazardous Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 1st July 2015.

(2) Regulations 7 to 9 and 11 apply to England only.

Amendment of the Environmental Protection Act 1990

2.  In section 62A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(5) (lists of waste displaying hazardous properties)-

(a)in each of subsections (1)(b) and (2)(b), for "Directive 2008/98/EC"(6), substitute "Directive 2008/98/EC";

(b)in subsection (3), for "Commission Decision 2000/532/EC"(7), substitute "Commission Decision 2000/532/EC, as amended from time to time".

Amendment of the Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005

3.-(1) The Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005(8) are amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph (1)(a) of regulation 2(9) (the Waste Directive and the meaning of waste), substitute-

"(a)"the Waste Directive" means Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste;".

(3) In paragraph (a) of regulation 3(10) (Annex III to the Waste Directive), omit ", as that Annex is set out in Schedule 3".

(4) For paragraph (1) of regulation 4(11) (the List of Wastes), substitute-

"(1) In these Regulations, "the 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.".

(5) In paragraph (2) of regulation 8 (specific waste to be treated as hazardous), for "Article 3 of the List of Wastes Decision", substitute "Article 7(2) of the Waste Directive".

(6) In paragraph (2) of regulation 9 (specific waste to be treated as non-hazardous), for "Article 3 of the List of Wastes Decision", substitute "Article 7(3) of the Waste Directive".

(7) Omit Schedule 3(12) (Annex III to the Waste Directive).

(8) For Schedule 8 (form of consignee's return to producer or holder), substitute the text at Schedule 1 (new Schedule 8).

Amendment of the Batteries and Accumulators (Placing on the Market) Regulations 2008

4.  For the definition of "appliance" in paragraph (1) of regulation 2 of the Batteries and Accumulators (Placing on the Market) Regulations 2008(13) (interpretation), substitute-

""appliance" means any electrical or electronic equipment, as defined by Directive 2012/19/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)(14), which is fully or partly powered by batteries or accumulators or is capable of being so;".

Amendment of the Cremation (England and Wales) Regulations 2008

5.  In regulation 29 of the Cremation (England and Wales) Regulations 2008(15) (incineration of body parts)-

(a)in paragraph (1), for "listed in code 18 01 02 or 18 01 03 of Schedule 1 to the List of Wastes Regulations", substitute "falling within the description of code 18 01 02 or 18 01 03 in the List of Wastes";

(b)in paragraph (2), for the definition of "List of Wastes Regulations", substitute-

""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;".

Amendment of the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009

6.  For the definition of "appliance" in paragraph (1) of regulation 2 of the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009(16) (interpretation), substitute-

""appliance" means any electrical or electronic equipment, as defined by Directive 2012/19/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), which is fully or partly powered by batteries or is capable of being so;".

Amendment of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010

7.-(1) The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010(17) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3 (interpretation: Directives)-

(a)for the definition of "the Waste Framework Directive"(18), substitute-

""the Waste Framework Directive" means Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste;";

(b)for the definition of "the WEEE Directive", substitute-

""the WEEE Directive" means Directive 2012/19/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).".

(3) In Part 1 of Schedule 3 (exempt facilities: descriptions and conditions)-

(a)in paragraph 1 of chapter 1-

(i)in sub-paragraph (1), at the appropriate place insert-

""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;";

(ii)for sub-paragraph (2), substitute-

"(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";

(b)in section 2 of chapter 3-

(i)in paragraph 1-

(aa)in sub-paragraph (3)(e), for "dangerous substance", substitute "hazardous substance";

(bb)for sub-paragraph (5), substitute-

"(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(19).";

(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";

(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".

(4) In Schedule 12 (waste electrical and electronic equipment)-

(a)in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 2, for "Article 3(b)", substitute "Article 3(1)(e)";

(b)in paragraph 3-

(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)";

(ii)for sub-paragraph (2), substitute-

"(2) But when interpreting the WEEE Directive for the purposes of this paragraph, ignore the following words in Article 9(3)-

(a) "or the registration referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2"; and

(b) "and for the achievement of the recovery targets set out in Article 11".".

Amendment of the Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011

8.-(1) The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011(20) are amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation 3(21) (interpretation), at the appropriate place insert-

""the 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;".

(3) In paragraph (2)(a) of regulation 35(22) (waste information), omit "(England) Regulations 2005 or, as the case may be, the List of Wastes (Wales) Regulations 2005".

(4) For sub-paragraph (3)(b) of paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 (waste prevention programmes and waste management plans), substitute-

"(b)naturally occurring material falling within the description of code 17 05 04 in the List of Wastes.".

Amendment of the Controlled Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2012

9.  In paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Controlled Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2012(23) (household, industrial and commercial waste), for paragraph (c) of the definition of "offensive waste", substitute-

"(c)falls within the description of code 18 01 04, 18 02 03 or 20 01 99 in 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;".

Revocations

10.  The following Regulations are revoked-

(a)the List of Wastes (England) Regulations 2005(24);

(b)the List of Wastes (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005(25).

Transitional provisions

11.  Schedule 2 (modifications to permits etc.) has effect.

Regulation 3(8)

SCHEDULE 1New Schedule 8

Regulation 54

"SCHEDULE 8Form of consignee's return to producer or holder

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Regulation 11

SCHEDULE 2Modifications to permits etc.

Modifications relating to hazardous waste codes

1.-(1) Any reference in a permit or standard rule to an outdated hazardous waste code is taken to be a reference to the equivalent updated code in accordance with the following correlation table-

(2) In this paragraph-

"outdated hazardous waste code" means a code or description of a code set out in Annex III to Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste (properties of waste which render it hazardous), as adopted on 19th November 2008(26);

"updated code" means a code or description of a code set out in Annex III to Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste, as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1357/2014 replacing Annex III to Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste(27).

Modifications relating to list of wastes codes

2.-(1) Any reference in a permit or standard rule to a six-digit code in the outdated List of Wastes is taken to be a reference to the equivalent six-digit code in the updated List.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1)-

"outdated List of Wastes" means-

"six-digit code" means a six-digit code or a description of a six-digit code;

"updated List" means the list established by the EU List of Wastes, as last amended by Commission Decision 2014/955/EU amending Decision 2000/532/EC on the list of waste pursuant to Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(32).

(3) In sub-paragraph (2), "the EU List of Wastes" means 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.

Meaning of permit and standard rule

3.  In this Schedule-

"permit" has the meaning given to "environmental permit" in regulation 13(1) of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010(33) and includes a marine licence granted under Part 4 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009(34);

"standard rule" means any rule published under regulation 26(5) of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make amendments to enactments which concern hazardous waste or cross-refer to other enactments or European Union instruments concerning hazardous waste.

Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste (Directive OJ No L 312, 22.11.08, p.3) ("the Directive") was amended on 19th December 2014 by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1357/2014 (OJ No L 365, 19.12.14, p.89). Accordingly, paragraph (a) of regulation 2 updates references to the Directive in subsections (1)(b) and (2)(b) of section 62A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c.43) ("the EPA 1990"). Other enactments are similarly updated (regulations 3(2) and 7(2)(a)).

On 30th December 2014 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 (OJ No L 226, 6.9.2000, p.3) ("the List of Wastes") was amended by Commission Decision 2014/955/EU (OJ No L 370, 30.12.2014, p.44). Paragraph (b) of regulation 2 amends subsection (3) of section 62A of the EPA 1990 such that the reference to the List of Wastes is a reference to that List as amended from time to time. Other enactments are amended with like effect (regulations 2(b), 3(4), 5(b), 7(3)(a)(i), 8(2) and 9).

Regulations 4, 6 and 7(2)(b) and (4) amend enactments as a consequence of Directive 2012/19/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) (OJ No L 197, 24.7.2012, p.38). Regulation 10 revokes the List of Wastes (England) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/895) and the List of Wastes (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1673). Schedule 2 contains transitional provisions.

An impact assessment has not been done for this instrument as no impact on business, the voluntary sector or the public sector is foreseen.