Web sites : http://europa.eu.int/pol/env/index_en.htm /
http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l11022.htm

"Legislation on waste management began in 1972. At the beginning the EU focused on measures responding to identified problems, including hazardous waste shipments, and waste from the titanium dioxide industry. The current action program takes the EU forward and puts more emphasis on waste prevention and the solving of waste problems at source. There are several pieces of legislation passed or proposed dealing with this subject. They are :

	Directives 91/156/EEC (amending 75/442/EEC) on waste and 91/689/EEC on hazardous waste
	Commission decision establishing a list of waste (passed December 20 1993 and addressing directive 75/442/EEC on waste)
	Proposal for a Council decision for a list of hazardous waste (under directive 91/689/EEC)
	Regulation 259/93/EEC on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the EU with a proposal for a Council regulation amending this as well as another proposal establishing common rules and procedures to apply to shipments to certain non-OECD countries of certain types of waste
	Directive 94/67/EC on the incineration of hazardous waste
	A draft proposal for a directive on the incineration of non-hazardous waste
	A proposal for a directive on landfill waste
	A Council and European Parliament directive on packaging and packaging waste
	A proposal for a program to identify priority waste systems"

Aimed at protecting the environment.

Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15.07.75 on waste modified by Council Directive 91/156/EEC of 18.03.91.

	Defines waste "waste shall mean any substance or object...which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard"
	Aims to : - protect health & environment - preserve natural resources - obtain secondary raw materials - recovery & disposal operations must be authorised by the competent authorities

Directive 259/93/EEC on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Community.

	Applies to wastes for disposal & recovery
	Shipment is authorised between member states, OECD members and signatories of the Basel Convention
	Establishes three lists of wastes (green, amber, red)
	Details requirements for the transfrontier shipment of hazardous wastes
	"Certain wastes listed in Annex II may be controlled, if ...they exhibit any of the hazardous characteristics listed in Annex III of Directive 689/91/EEC"

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