Waste law

Waste Framework Directive

• Waste Framework Directive
• Summary of the Waste Framework Directive

Batteries and accumulators

• Batteries Directive
• Batteries Directive (consolidated version)
• Proposal for a new Batteries Regulation (2020) and Annexes

End of life vehicles

• Directive on end-of-life vehicles
• Directive on end-of-life vehicles (consolidated version)
• Summary of EU Waste Legislation on ELVs

Relevant law

• Directive on the type-approval of motor vehicles regarding their reusability, recyclability and recoverability (consolidated version)
• Correspondents' Guidelines No 9 on shipment of waste vehicles

Landfill waste

• Landfill Directive
• Landfill Directive (consolidated version)
• Summary of Landfill Directive
• Waste Framework Directive

Secondary law

• Decision establishing criteria and procedures for the acceptance of waste at landfills
• Decision laying down rules for the calculation, verification and reporting of data on landfill of municipal waste

Mining waste

• Extractive Waste Directive

Implementing measures

• Decision on the criteria for the classification of waste facilities
• Decision on technical guidelines for establishing the financial guarantee
• Decision on technical requirements for waste characterisation
• Decision on the definition of inert waste
• Decision on the harmonisation and regular transmission of information and questionnaire
• Implementing decision laying down technical guidelines for inspections

Other relevant laws for the management of mining waste

Packaging waste

• Packaging Directive
• Packaging Directive (consolidated version)
• Summary of EU law on packaging and packaging waste
• Plastic Carrier Bags Directive

Secondary law

Communication on beverage packaging, deposit systems and free movement of goods

Marking and identification

• Decision establishing the identification system for packaging materials

Data and reporting

• Directive standardizing and rationalizing reports on the implementation of certain Directives relating to the environment
• Decision concerning questionnaires for Member States reports on the implementation of certain Directives in the waste sector
• Decision establishing the formats relating to the database systemand implementing decision amending this decision
• Implementing decision laying down the methodology for the calculation of the annual consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags

Derogations

• Decision establishing the conditions for a derogation for plastic crates and plastic pallets in relation to the heavy metal concentration levels
• Decision establishing the conditions for a derogation for glass packaging in relation to the heavy metal concentration levels

Notification of draft measures Member States intend to implement within the framework of the Packaging Directive

• Directive laying down a procedure for providing information in the field of technical regulations and rules on Information Society services
• Notifications can be accessed and consulted in the TRIS database (Technical Regulations Information System)

PCBs/PCTs

• Directive on the disposal of PCBs/PCTs
• Directive on the disposal of PCBs/PCTs (consolidated version)
• Summary of law on PCBs/PCTs

RoHS

• RoHS Directive
• RoHS Directive (consolidated version)
• 2017 Directive amending RoHS Directive

Delegated Directives amending RoHS Annexes

Restricted substances (Annex II)

• Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2015/863

Exemptions (Annex III and IV)

• 5 Commission Delegated Directives (EU) 2020/360, 2020/361 and 2020/364 to 2020/366 of 17 December 2019
• 2 Commission Delegated Directives (EU) 2019/1845 and (EU) 2019/1846 of 8 August 2019
• 10 Commission Delegated Directives (EU) 2019/169 to (EU) 2019/178 of 16 November 2018
• 4 Commission Delegated Directives (EU) 2018/739 to (EU) 2018/742 of 1 March 2018
• 3 Commission Delegated Directives (EU) 2018/736 to (EU) 2018/738 of 27 February 2018
• 1 Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2017/1975 of August 2017, to be read in conjunction with the Corrigendum
• 3 Commission Delegated Directives (EU) 2017/1009 to (EU) 2017/1011 of March 2017
• 2 Commission Delegated Directives (EU) 2016/1028 to (EU) 2016/1029 of 19 April 2016
• Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2016/585 of 12 February 2016
• 2 Commission Delegated Directives (EU) 2015/573 to (EU) 2015/574 of 30 January 2015
• 8 Commission Delegated Directives 2014/69/EU to 2014/76/EU of 13 March 2014
• 16 Commission Delegated Directives 2014/1/EU to 2014/16/EU of 18 October 2013
• 2 Commission Delegated Directives 2012/50/EU to 2012/51/EU of 10 October 2012

Sewage sludge

• Sewage Sludge Directive
• Consolidated version of the Sewage Sludge Directive
• Summary of EU sewage sludge law
• Regulation aligning and streamlining reporting requirements in environmental legislation
• Decision on procedural rules in the field of environmental reporting
• Directive on the treatment of urban wastewater

Ships

• Consolidated version of the ship recycling regulation
• Summary of ship recycling regulation
• Decision concerning the ratification of the Hong Kong Convention

Secondary law

• Implementing decision establishing the European list of ship recycling facilities
• Implementing decision on the on the format of the certificate on the inventory of hazardous materials
• Implementing decision on the format of the ready for recycling certificate
• Implementing decision on the format of the report of planned start of ship recycling
• Implementing decision on the format of the statement of completion of ship recycling

Waste containing POPs

• Regulation on persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

Waste shipments

• Waste Shipments Regulation
• Waste Shipments Regulation (consolidated version)
• Regulation concerning the export for recovery of certain waste to certain countries to which the OECD Decision on the control of transboundary movements of waste does not apply
• Implementing act setting out a preliminary correlation table between customs and waste codes – to help customs officials identify potential waste streams.
• Delegated regulation on plastic waste shipments

The Commission has also published frequently asked questions about the Waste Shipments Regulation.

International Law 

• Summary of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
• Basel Convention webpage
• OECD database of Transboundary Movements of Wastes destined for recovery operations which contains inter alia relevant information on pre-consented facilities