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 EU legislation

• Waste management

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 EU legislation Waste management

• Every year, some 2 billion tonnes of waste -
  including particularly hazardous waste - are
  produced in the Member States, and this figure is
  rising steadily. The best solution is, as always,
  to prevent the production of such waste,
  reintroducing it into the product cycle by
  recycling its components where there are
  ecologically and economically viable methods of
  doing so.
• The European legal background is presented in
  the followings with active links.

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GENERAL FRAMEWORK

• Directive on waste
• Waste disposal (until the end of 2010)
• Strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste
  
• Integrated pollution prevention and control IPPC
  Directive
• Waste management statistics
• Competitiveness of the recycling industries
• Landfill of waste
• Waste incineration
• Shipments of waste

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HAZARDOUS WASTE

• Controlled management of hazardous waste (until
  the end of 2010)
• Basel Convention

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WASTE FROM CONSUMER GOODS

• Packaging and packaging waste
• Disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and
  polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs)
• Disposal of spent batteries and accumulators
• Disposal of waste oils
• Management of end-of-life vehicles
• The reusing, recycling and recovering of motor
  vehicles
• Waste electrical and electronic equipment

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WASTE FROM SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES

• Management of waste from extractive industries
• A strategy for better ship dismantling practices
• Ship dismantling
• Removal and disposal of disused offshore oil and
  gas installations
• Use of sewage sludge in agriculture
• Port infrastructure facilities for
  ship-generated waste and cargo residues
• Titanium dioxide
• Disposal of titanium dioxide industrial waste
• Surveillance and monitoring of titanium dioxide
  waste
• Reduction of pollution caused by waste from the
  titanium dioxide industry

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RADIOACTIVE WASTE AND SUBSTANCES

• Shipments of radioactive waste supervision and
  control
• Shipments of radioactive substances
• Situation in 1999 and prospects for radioactive
  waste management
• Management of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive
  waste