CONSULTATION - WASTE FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE

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Category: Policy & regulations
Date: 22 Jul 2009
Time: 09:49:38 +0200
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CONSULTATION ON THE TRANSPOSITION OF THE REVISED WASTE FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE (DIRECTIVE 2008/98/EC) IN ENGLAND AND WALES

I am writing to invite your views on the transposition in England and Wales of key provisions of the revised Waste Framework Directive (WFD) (Directive 2008/98/EC). The consultation is stage one of a two-stage consultation exercise on the revised WFD’s transposition. The consultation’s purpose is to invite views to help inform the policy decisions that it will be necessary for Ministers to take on the revised WFD’s transposition in England and Wales.

The following documents may be found on Defra's website at http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/waste-framework/index.htm

These documents are also available on the Welsh Assembly Government’s website at http://wales.gov.uk/consultations/environmentandcountryside/?skip=1&lang=en

If you wish to obtain a copy of the consultation document, please e-mail wfdu@defra.gsi.gov.uk or telephone 020 7238 1215.

The requirements of the revised WFD on which views are invited as part of the stage one consultation are set out in the consultation document’s Executive Summary; and each requirement is discussed in more detail in Chapter Two. Consultees are invited to submit their views by reference to the questions set out in Chapter Three of the consultation document. The following provides an indication of the issues covered in the consultation document:-

Article 4 : The waste hierarchy;

Article 8 : Extended producer responsibility;

Article 11 : Re-use and recycling;

Article 11(1) : Re-use and preparing for re-use activities;

Article 11(1) : Separate collections of waste;

Article 11(2)(a) : Household waste recycling target;

Article 11(2)(b) : Recovery target for non-hazardous construction and demolition waste;

Article 16 : Principles of self-sufficiency and proximity;

Articles 17-20 : Hazardous waste;

Article 21 : Waste oils;

Article 22 : Bio-waste;

Article 28 : Waste management plans; and

Article 29 : Waste prevention programmes.

Other Issues

Article 6 : End-of-waste status; and

The “R1 formula” and the recovery/disposal distinction

Responses

Please send responses to:-

Revised WFD Consultation (Stage One)
Waste Framework Directive Unit
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Area 6D Ergon House
17 Smith Square
LONDON SW1P 3JR

E-mail: wfdu@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Fax: 020 7238 4857

Consultees in Wales are requested to copy their responses to:-

Waste Regulation Policy Branch
Welsh Assembly Government
Cathays Park
CARDIFF CF10 3NQ

E-mail: waste@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Responses should be received by Friday 9 October 2009.

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