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[[Category:Legislation & Policy]]

The overall objective of the Landfill Directive was to supplement the requirements of the [[Waste Framework Directive]] (2006/12/EC) and prevent or reduce as far as possible the negative effects of [[Landfill]] on the environment as well as any resultant risk to human health. It seeks to achieve this through specifying uniform technical standards at Community level and sets out requirements for the location, management, engineering, closure and monitoring for landfills. The Directive also includes requirements relating to the characteristics of the waste to be landfilled<ref name="foo">Defra, 2010. Environmental Permitting Guidance: The Landfill Directive for the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010. London: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, p.7.</ref>.

The overall objective of the Landfill Directive 1999/31/EC was to supplement the requirements of the [[Waste Framework Directive]] (2006/12/EC) and prevent or reduce as far as possible the negative effects of [[Landfill]] on the environment as well as any resultant risk to human health. It seeks to achieve this through specifying uniform technical standards at Community level and sets out requirements for the location, management, engineering, closure and monitoring for landfills. The Directive also includes requirements relating to the characteristics of the waste to be landfilled<ref name="foo">Defra, 2010. Environmental Permitting Guidance: The Landfill Directive for the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010. London: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, p.7.</ref>.

The Landfill Directive sets out which wastes can be accepted in the different classes of landfill (Article 6(b), (c) and (d)). The Decision requires that waste shall be accepted at a Landfill only if it meets the acceptance criteria for the relevant class of landfill (Article 3 of the Decision and section 2 of the Annex). The relevant classes of Landfill are:

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Member States had to ensure that existing landfill sites did not continue to operate unless they complied with the provisions of the Directive.

Directive 2018/850 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 was an amendment of the Landfill Directive 1999/31/EC and included the initiatives that no waste suitable for [[recycling]] or other [[recovery]] (esp. [[MSW]]) should not be landfilled from 2030, and by 2035 the MSW landfilled should be 10% or less of total the MSW produced. This included a 5 year grace period for members disposing of more than 60% in 2013.

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-The overall objective of the Landfill Directive was to supplement the requirements of the [[Waste Framework Directive]] (2006/12/EC) and prevent or reduce as far as possible the negative effects of [[Landfill]] on the environment as well as any resultant risk to human health. It seeks to achieve this through specifying uniform technical standards at Community level and sets out requirements for the location, management, engineering, closure and monitoring for landfills. The Directive also includes requirements relating to the characteristics of the waste to be landfilled<ref name="foo">Defra, 2010. Environmental Permitting Guidance: The Landfill Directive for the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010. London: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, p.7.</ref>.
+The overall objective of the Landfill Directive 1999/31/EC was to supplement the requirements of the [[Waste Framework Directive]] (2006/12/EC) and prevent or reduce as far as possible the negative effects of [[Landfill]] on the environment as well as any resultant risk to human health. It seeks to achieve this through specifying uniform technical standards at Community level and sets out requirements for the location, management, engineering, closure and monitoring for landfills. The Directive also includes requirements relating to the characteristics of the waste to be landfilled<ref name="foo">Defra, 2010. Environmental Permitting Guidance: The Landfill Directive for the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010. London: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, p.7.</ref>.
 The Landfill Directive sets out which wastes can be accepted in the different classes of landfill (Article 6(b), (c) and (d)). The Decision requires that waste shall be accepted at a Landfill only if it meets the acceptance criteria for the relevant class of landfill (Article 3 of the Decision and section 2 of the Annex). The relevant classes of Landfill are:
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 Member States had to ensure that existing landfill sites did not continue to operate unless they complied with the provisions of the Directive.
+Directive 2018/850 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 was an amendment of the Landfill Directive 1999/31/EC and included the initiatives that no waste suitable for [[recycling]] or other [[recovery]] (esp. [[MSW]]) should not be landfilled from 2030, and by 2035 the MSW landfilled should be 10% or less of total the MSW produced. This included a 5 year grace period for members disposing of more than 60% in 2013.
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