The revision of the Waste Framework Directive

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• The revision of the Waste Framework Directive

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Objectives of the Waste Strategy

• Modernise by bringing new environmental thinking
  into waste policy
• Improve the regulatory environment, i.e. clarify
  and simplify
• Reinforce the waste recycling market
• Put prevention policies into action

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Preparing the revision

• Expert workshop
• Member State meeting
• Detailed Member State questionnaire
• Stakeholder meeting
• Impact assessment work

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Principles of the revision of WFD

• Appropriate level of ambition
• Leave elements that work untouched
• Modernise, simplify, clarify where useful
• Reinforce standards waste prevention
• (Hazardous Waste Waste Oil Dirs)

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WFD Environmental Objective and Life Cycle
Thinking

• New environmental objective links waste to
  life-cycle of resources
• The main objective is to reduce environmental
  impact
• Objective guides waste management plans and waste
  prevention programmes
• Keeps waste hierarchy as a guiding principle

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WFD Definition of Waste

• End of waste clarify through a waste stream
  based approach
• Other by-products guidelines on waste/by-product
  in a Communication
• Birth of waste re-use issues best tackled
  through a practical approach

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End of Waste Key aspects
Objectives of provision
Waste streams eligible
Set a high environmental standard Distinguish
between clean dirty recycled products Regulatory
relief for low risk products Facilitate the
internal market
Low environmental risk Potential environmental
benefit Genuine barrier Solid market for recycled
product
Framework conditions
Type of criteria
Governing 1) Objective of system 2) Type of
waste streams that can be included 3) Type of
criteria necessary 4) Cut off level for criteria
Environmental leaching, contamination and so
on Fitness for use Meets market standards
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Interpretative Communication on by-products and
waste

• Business reality thousands of different types
  of by-products/industrial residues with different
  environmental impacts some waste, some not
• Some evidence of uneven implementation and
  confusion for economic operators
• Commitment in Thematic Strategy on the prevention
  and recycling of waste for 2006
• Explain legal situation, based on ECJ
  jurisprudence, to the target audience

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WFD - Recovery and disposal

• Recovery versus disposal
• General notion of recovery widened efficiency
  criteria based approach where necessary
• energy recovery factor for municipal waste
  incinerators
• Possibility to relegate operations

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A Decade for Change
Non-haz waste landfills
Inc/co-inc emission limits
Final ELV targets
IPPC permits
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
2015 2016
Hazardous waste landfills
Pckg targets
Final landfill diversion
PCBs destroyed
WEEE ELV targets
Landfill diversion
Landfill - Tyres Ban - Acceptance criteria
2005 Thematic Strategy
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Developing Tomorrows Recycling policy

• Two clear conclusions
• 1) Previous approach (WEEE, ELV) has been useful
  but cannot be extended indefinitely env
  benefits would not justify the cost and
  administrative burden.
• 2) But market forces alone will not reach the
  full environmental benefits of recycling for all
  materials
• In the short term pause to implement properly
  what has already been agreed (see previous slide)
• In the longer term re-evaluate the situation on
  a material by material basis use full range of
  tools

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Putting Prevention into Action

• Framework approach based on subsidiarity
• Action at national and probably sub-national
  levels
• Agree on a list of actions to be considered by MS
• Targets and indicators at appropriate level
• Improve science and knowledge useful for waste
  prevention
• Environmental potential of prevention actions
• Assess against environmental objective

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Next steps

• Council has had little negotiating time so far
  but Leiden workshop shows that significant
  consensus on many issues
• EP due to vote in November
• Ecosoc, Committee of Regions calling for more
  command and control based approach
• Agreement on Directive 2008?