| Title: |
Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the Interpretative Communication on waste and by-products
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| Resource Type: |
document --> regulations
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| Country: |
European Union
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| Year: |
2007 |
| Availability: |
Brussels, 21.2.2007 COM(2007) 59 final
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| Author 1/Producer: |
European Commission
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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| Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Recycling/reuse
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| Short description: |
In order to improve the legal certainty of waste legislation, and to make the definition of
waste easier to understand and apply, this Communication seeks to guide competent
authorities in making case by case judgements on whether a given material is a waste or not,
and to give economic operators information on how these decisions should be taken. The
Communication will also help to smooth out differences in the interpretation of these
provisions throughout the EU.
The Communication aims to explain the definition of waste set down in Article 1 of the Waste
Framework Directive, as interpreted by the European Court of Justice, in order to ensure that
the Directive is properly implemented. In EU waste law, notions such as by-product or
secondary raw material have no legal meaning – materials are simply waste or not.
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Link to Organisation(s):
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EC European Commission
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 14/04/2007
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