Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste
Modified by
- Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 29 September 2003adapting to Council Decision 1999/468/EC the provisions relating to committees which assist the Commission in the exercise of its implementing powers laid down in instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the EC Treaty, 32003R1882, October 31, 2003
- Regulation (EC) No 1137/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 22 October 2008adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC, with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutinyAdaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part One, 32008R1137, November 21, 2008
- Council Directive 2011/97/EUof 5 December 2011amending Directive 1999/31/EC as regards specific criteria for the storage of metallic mercury considered as waste, 32011L0097, December 10, 2011
- Directive (EU) 2018/850 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 30 May 2018amending Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste(Text with EEA relevance), 32018L0850, June 14, 2018
(a) the definitions of "waste", "hazardous waste", "non-hazardous waste", "municipal waste", "waste producer", "waste holder", "waste management", "separate collection", "recovery", "preparing for re-use", "recycling" and "disposal" laid down in Article 3 of Directive 2008/98/EC shall apply; (b) " municipal waste " means waste from households, as well as other waste which, because of its nature or composition, is similar to waste from household;(c) " hazardous waste " means any waste which is covered by Article 1(4) of Council Directive 91/689/EEC of 12 December 1991 on hazardous wasteOJ L 377, 31.12.1991, p. 20 . Directive as last amended by Directive 94/31/EC (OJ L 168, 2.7.1994, p. 28 );(d) " non-hazardous waste " means waste which is not covered by paragraph (c);(e) " inert waste " means waste that does not undergo any significant physical, chemical or biological transformations. Inert waste will not dissolve, burn or otherwise physically or chemically react, biodegrade or adversely affect other matter with which it comes into contact in a way likely to give rise to environmental pollution or harm human health. The total leachability and pollutant content of the waste and the ecotoxicity of the leachate must be insignificant, and in particular not endanger the quality of surface water and/or groundwater;(f) " underground storage " means a permanent waste storage facility in a deep geological cavity such as a salt or potassium mine;(g) " landfill " means a waste disposal site for the deposit of the waste onto or into land (i.e. underground), including:internal waste disposal sites (i.e. landfill where a producer of waste is carrying out its own waste disposal at the place of production), and a permanent site (i.e. more than one year) which is used for temporary storage of waste,
but excluding: facilities where waste is unloaded in order to permit its preparation for further transport for recovery, treatment or dispsal elsewhere, and stoarage of waste prior to recovery or treatment for a period less than three years as a general rule, or storage of waste prior to disposal for a period less than one year;
(h) " treatment " means the physical, thermal, chemical or biological processes, including sorting, that change the characteristics of the waste in order to reduce its volume or hazardous nature, facilitate its handling or enhance recovery;(i) " leachate " means any liquid percolating through the deposited waste and emitted from or contained within a landfill;(j) " landfill gas " means all the gases generated from the landfilled waste;(k) " eluate " means the solution obtained by a laboratory leaching test;(l) " operator " means the natural or legal person responsible for a landfill in accordance with the internal legislation of the Member State where the landfill is located; this person may change from the preparation to the after-care phase;(m) " biodegradable waste " means any waste that is capable of undergoing anaerobic or aerobic decomposition, such as food and garden waste, and paper and paperboard;(n) " holder " means the producer of the waste or the natural or legal person who is in possession of it;(o) " applicant " means any person who applies for a landfill permit under this Directive;(p) " competent authority " means that authority which the Member States designate as responsible for performing the duties arising from this Directive;(q) " liquid waste " means any waste in liquid form including waste waters but excluding sludge;(r) " isolated settlement " means a settlement:with no more than 500 inhabitants per municipality or settlement and no more than five inhabitants per square kilometre and, where the distance to the nearest urban agglomeration with at least 250 inhabitants per square kilometre is not less than 50 km, or with difficult access by road to those nearest agglomerations, due to harsh meteorological conditions during a significant part of the year.
In outermost regions within the meaning of Article 349 of the Treaty, Member States may decide to apply the following definition: "isolated settlement" means a settlement: with no more than 2000 inhabitants per settlement and no more than five inhabitants per square kilometre, or with more than2000 but less than5000 inhabitants per settlement and no more than five inhabitants per square kilometre and whose production of waste does not exceed3000 tonnes per year, andwhere the distance to the nearest urban agglomeration with at least 250 inhabitants per square kilometre is not less than 100 km and with no access by road.
the spreading of sludges, including sewage sludges, and sludges resulting from dredging operations, and similar matter on the soil for the purposes of fertilisation or improvement, the use of inert waste which is suitable, in redevelopment/restoration and filling-in work, or for construction purposes, in landfills, the deposit of non-hazardous dredging sludges alongside small waterways from where they have been dredged out and of non-hazardous sludges in surface water including the bed and its sub soil. the deposit of unpolluted soil or of non-hazardous inert waste resulting from prospecting and extraction, treatment, and storage of mineral resources as well as from the operation of quarries.
(a) landfill sites for non-hazardous or inert wastes with a total capacity not exceeding 15000 tonnes or with an annual intake not exceeding1000 tonnes serving islands, where this is the only landfill on the island and where this is exclusively destined for the disposal of waste generated on that island. Once the total capacity of that landfill has been used, any new landfill site established on the island shall comply with the requirements of this Directive;(b) landfill sites for non-hazardous or inert waste in isolated settlements if the landfill site is destined for the disposal of waste generated only by that isolated settlement.
landfill for hazardous waste, landfill for non-hazardous waste, landfill for inert waste.
(a) not later than five years after the date laid down in Article 18(1), biodegradable municipal waste going to landfills must be reduced to 75 % of the total amount (by weight) of biodegradable municipal waste produced in 1995 or the latest year before 1995 for which standardised Eurostat data is available (b) not later than eight years afte the date laid down in Article 18(1), biodegradable municipal waste going to landfills must be reduced to 50 % of the total amount (by weight) of biodegradable municipal waste produced in 1995 or the latest year before 1995 for which stadardised Eurostat data is available; (c) not later than 15 years after the date laid down in Article 18(1), biodegradable municipal waste going to landfills must be reduced to 35 % of the total amount (by weight) of biodegradable municipal waste produced in 1995 or the lates year before 1995 for which standardised Eurostat data is available.
(a) liquid waste; (b) waste which, in the conditions of landfill, is explosive, corrosive, oxidising, highly flammable or flammable, as defined in Annex III to Directive 91/689/EEC; (c) hospital and other clinical wastes arising from medical or veterinary establishments, which are infectious as defined (property H9 in Annex III) by Directive 91/689/EEC and waste falling within category 14 (Annex I.A) of that Directive; (d) whole used tyres from two years from the date laid down in Article 18(1), excluding tyres used as engineering material, and shredded used tyres five years from the date laid down in Article 18(1) (excluding in both instances bicylce tyres and tyres with an outside diameter above 1 400 mm); (e) any other type of waste which does not fulfil the acceptance criteria determined in accordance with Annex II; (f) waste that has been separately collected for preparing for re-use and recycling pursuant to Article 11(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC and Article 22 of that Directive, with the exception of waste resulting from subsequent treatment operations of the separately collected waste for which landfilling delivers the best environmental outcome in accordance with Article 4 of that Directive.
(a) landfilled more than 60 % of its municipal waste generated in 2013 as reported under the Joint Questionnaire of the OECD and Eurostat; and (b) at the latest 24 months before the deadline laid down in paragraph 5 of this Article, notifies the Commission of its intention to postpone the deadline and submits an implementation plan in accordance with Annex IV to this Directive. That plan may be combined with an implementation plan submitted according to point (b) of Article 11(3) of Directive 2008/98/EC.
(a) the weight of the municipal waste generated and directed to landfilling shall be calculated in a given calendar year; (b) the weight of waste resulting from treatment operations prior to recycling or other recovery of municipal waste, such as sorting or mechanical biological treatment, which is subsequently landfilled shall be included in the weight of municipal waste reported as landfilled; (c) the weight of municipal waste that enters incineration disposal operations and the weight of waste produced in the stabilisation operations of the biodegradable fraction of municipal waste in order to be subsequently landfilled shall be reported as landfilled; (d) the weight of waste produced during recycling or other recovery operations of municipal waste which is subsequently landfilled shall not be included in the weight of municipal waste reported as landfilled.
(a) an estimation of the attainment of the targets by each Member State; (b) a list of Member States at risk of not attaining the targets within the respective deadlines accompanied by appropriate recommendations for the Member States concerned; (c) examples of best practices that are used throughout the Union which could provide guidance for progressing towards attaining the targets.
(a) only waste that has been subject to treatment is landfilled. This provision may not apply to inert waste for which treatment is not technically feasible, nor to any other waste for which such treatment does not contribute to the objectives of this Directive, as set out in Article 1, by reducing the quantity of the waste or the hazards to human health or the environment. Member States shall ensure that measures taken in accordance with this point do not compromise the achievement of the objectives of Directive 2008/98/EC, notably on the waste hierarchy and on the increase of preparing for re-use and recycling as set out in Article 11 of that Directive; (b) only hazardous waste that fulfils the criteria set out in accordance with Annex II is assigned to a hazardous landfill; (c) landfill for non-hazardous waste may be used for: (i) municipal waste; (ii) non-hazardous waste of any other origin, which fulfil the criteria for the acceptance of waste at landfill for non-hazardous waste set out in accordance with Annex II; (iii) stable, non-reactive hazardous wastes (e.g. solidified, vitrified), with leaching behaviour equivalent to those of the non-hazardous wastes referred to in point (ii), which fulfil the relevant acceptance criteria set out in accordance with Annex II. These hazarouds wastes shall not be deposited in cells destined for biodegradable non-hazardous waste,
(d) inert waste landfill sites shall be used only for inert waste.
(a) the identity of the applicant and of the operator when they are different entities; (b) the description of the types and total quantity of waste to be deposited; (c) the proposed capacity of the disposal site; (d) the description of the site, including its hydrogeological and geological characteristics; (e) the proposed methods for pollution prevention and abatement; (f) the proposed operation, monitoring and control plan; (g) the proposed plan for the closure and after-care procedures; (h) where an impact assessment is required under Council Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment OJ L 175, 5.7.1985, p. 40 . Directive as amended by Directive 97/11/EC (OJ L 73, 14.3.1997, p. 5 ).(i) the financial security by the applicant, or any other equivalent provision, as required under Article 8(a)(iv) of this Directive.
(a) the competent authority does not issue a landfill permit unless it is satisfied that: (i) without prejudice to Article 3(4) and (5), the landfill project complies with all the relevant requirements of this Directive, including the Annexes; (ii) the management of the landfill site will be in the hands of a natural person who is technically competent to manage the site; professional and technical development and training of landfill operators and staff are provided; (iii) the landfill shall be operated in such a manner that the necessary measures are taken to prevent accidents and limit their consequences; (iv) adequate provisions, by way of a financial security or any other equivalent, on the basis of modalities to be decided by Member States, has been or will be made by the applicant prior to the commencement of disposal operations to ensure that the obligations (including after-care provisions) arising under the permit issued under the provisions of this Directive are discharged and that the closure procedures required by Article 13 are followed. This security or its equivalent shall be kept as long as required by maintenance and after-care operation of the site in accordance with Article 13(d). Member States may declare, at their own option, that this point does not apply to landfills for inert waste;
(b) the landfill project is in line with the relevant waste management plan or plans referred to in Article 7 of Directive 75/442/EEC; (c) prior to the commencement of disposal operations, the competent authority shall inspect the site in order to ensure that it complies with the relevant conditions of the permit. This will not reduce in any way the responsibility of the operator under the conditions of the permit.
(a) the class of the landfill; (b) the list of defined types and the total quantity of waste which are authorised to be deposited in the landfill; (c) requirements for the landfill preparations, landfilling operations and monitoring and control procedures, including contingency plans (Annex III, point 4.B), as well as provisional requirements for the closure and after-care operations; (d) the obligation on the applicant to report at least annually to the competent authority on the types and quantities of waste disposed of and on the results of the monitoring programme as required in Articles 12 and 13 and Annex III.
(a) before or at the time of delivery, or of the first in a series of deliveries, provided the type of waste remains unchanged, the holder or the operator can show, by means of the appropraite documentation, that the waste in question can be accepted at that site according to the conditions set in the permit, and that it fulfils the acceptance criteria set out in Annex II; (b) the following reception procedures are respected by the operator: checking of the waste documentation, including those documents required by Article 5(3) of Directive 91/689/EEC and, where they apply, those required by Council Regulation (EEC) No 259/93 of 1 February 1993 on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Community OJ L 30, 6.2.1993, p. 1 . Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 120/97 (OJ L 22, 24.1.1997, p. 14 ).visual inspection of the waste at the entrance and at the point of deposit and, as appropriate, verification of conformity with the description provided in the documentation submitted by the holder. If representative samples have to be taken in order to implement Annex II, point 3, level 3, the results of the analyses shall be kept and the sampling shall be made in conformity with Annex II, point 5. These samples shall be kept at least one month; keeping a register of the quantities and characteristics of the waste deposited, indicating origin, date of delivery, identity of the producer or collector in the case of municipal waste, and, in the case of hazardous waste, the precise location on the site. This information shall be made available to the competent national and Community statistical authorities when requested for statistical purposes;
(c) the operator of the landfill shall always provide written acknowledgement of receipt of each delivery acepted on the site; (d) without prejudice to the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 259/93, if waste is not accepted at a landfill the operator shall notify without delay the competent authority of the non-acceptance of the waste.
regular visual inspection of the waste at the point of deposit in order to ensure that only non-hazardous waste from the island or the isolated settlement is accepted at the site; and a register on the quantities of waste that are deposited at the site be kept.
(a) the operator of a landfill shall carry out during the operational phase a control and monitoring programme as specified in Annex III; (b) the operator shall notify the competent authority of any significant adverse environmental effects revealed by the control and monitoring procedures and follow the decision of the competent authority on the nature and timing of the corrective measures to be taken. These measures shall be undertaken at the expense of the operator. At a frequency to be determined by the competent authority, and in any event at least once a year, the operator shall report, on the basis of aggregated data, all monitoring results to the competent authorities for the purpose of demonstrating compliance with permit conditions and increasing the knowledge on waste behaviour in the landfills; (c) the quality control of the analytical operations of the control and monitoring procedures and/or of the analyses referred to in Article 11(1)(b) are carried out by competent laboratories.
(a) a landfill or part of it shall start the closure procedure: (i) when the relevant conditions stated in the permit are met; or (ii) under the authorisation of the competent authority, at the request of the operator; or (iii) by reasoned decision of the competent authority;
(b) a landfill or part of it may only be considered as definitely closed after the competent authority has carried out a final on-site inspection, has assessed all the reports submitted by the operator and has communicated to the operator its approval for the closure. This shall not in any way reduce the responsibility of the operator under the conditions of the permit; (c) after a landfill has been definitely closed, the operator shall be responsible for its maintenance, monitoring and control in the after-care phase for as long as may be required by the competent authority, taking into account the time during which the landfill could present hazards. The operator shall notify the competent authority of any significant adverse environmental effects revealed by the control procedures and shall follow the decision of the competent authority on the nature and timing of the corrective measures to be taken; (d) for as long as the competent authority considers that a landfill is likely to cause a hazard to the environment and without prejudice to any Community or national legislation as regards liability of the waste holder, the operator of the site shall be responsible for monitoring and analysing landfill gas and leachate from the site and the groundwater regime in the vicinity of the site in accordance with Annex III.
(a) with a period of one year after the date laid down in Article 18(1), the operator of a landfill shall prepare and present to the competent authorities, for their approval, a conditioning plan for the site including the particulars listed in Article 8 and any corrective measures which the operator considers will be needed in order to comply with the requirements of this Directive with the exception of the requirements in Annex I, point 1; (b) following the presentation of the conditioning plan, the competent authorities shall take a definite decision on whether operations may continue on the basis of the said conditioning plan and this Directive. Member States shall take the necessary measures to close down as soon as possible, in accordance with Article 7(g) and 13, sites which have not been granted, in accordance with Article 8, a permit to continue to operate; (c) on the basis of the approved site-conditioning plan, the competent authority shall authorise the necessary work and shall lay down a transitional period for the completion of the plan. Any existing landfill shall comply with the requirements of this Directive with the exception of the requirements in Annex I, point 1 within eight years after the date laid down in Article 18(1); (d) (i) within one year after the date laid down in Article 18(1), Articles 4, 5, and 11 and Annex II shall apply to landfills for hazardous waste; (ii) within three years after the date laid down in Article 18(1), Article 6 shall apply to landfills for hazardous waste.
(a) the distances from the boundary of the site to residential and recreation areas, waterways, water bodies and other agricultural or urban sites; (b) the existence of groundwater, coastal water or nature protection zones in the area; (c) the geological and hydrogeological conditions in the area; (d) the risk of flooding, subsidence, landslides or avalanches on the site; (e) the protection of the nature or cultural patrimony in the area.
control water from precipitations entering into the landfill body, prevent surface water and/or groundwater from entering into the landfilled waste, collect contaminated water and leachate. If an assessment based on consideration of the location of the landfill and the waste to be accepted shows that the landfill poses no potential hazard to the environment, the competent authority may decide that this provision does not apply, treat contaminated water and leachate collected from the landfill to the appropriate standard required for their discharge.
landfill for hazardous waste: K ≤ 1,0 × 10 - 9 m/s; thickness ≥ 5 m,landfill for non-hazardous waste: K ≤ 1,0 × 10 - 9 m/s; thickness ≥ 1 m,landfill for inert waste: K ≤ 1,0 × 10 - 7 m/s; thickness ≥ 1 m,
| Landfill category | non hazardous | hazardous |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial sealing liner | required | required |
| Drainage layer ≥ 0,5 m | required | required |
| Landfill category | non hazardous | hazardous |
|---|---|---|
| Gas drainage layer | required | not required |
| Artificial sealing liner | not required | required |
| Impermeable mineral layer | required | required |
| Drainage layer > 0,5 m | required | required |
| Top soil cover > 1 m | required | required. |
emissions of odours and dust, wind-blown materials, noise and traffic, birds, vermin and insects, formation and aerosols, fires.
Metallic mercury shall be stored separately from other waste. Containers shall be stored in collecting basins suitably coated so as to be free of cracks and gaps and impervious to metallic mercury with a containment volume adequate for the quantity of mercury stored. The storage site shall be provided with engineered or natural barriers that are adequate to protect the environment against mercury emissions and a containment volume adequate for the total quantity of mercury stored. The storage site floors shall be covered with mercury-resistant sealants. A slope with a collection sump shall be provided. The storage site shall be equipped with a fire protection system. Storage shall be arranged in a way to ensure that all containers are easily retrievable.
general principles for acceptance of waste at the various classes of landfills. The future waste classification procedure should be based on these principles, guidelines outlining preliminary waste acceptance procedures to be followed until a uniform waste classification and acceptance procedure has been developed. This procedure will, together with the relevant sampling procedures, be developed by the technical Committee referred to in Article 16 of this Directive. The technical Committee shall develop criteria which have to be fulfilled for certain hazardous waste to be accepted in landfills for non-hazardous waste. These criteria should, in particular, take into account the short, medium and long term leaching behaviour of such waste. These criteria shall be developed within two years of the entry into force of this Directive. The technical Committee shall also develop criteria which have to be fulfilled for waste to be accepted in underground storage. These criteria must take into account, in particular, that the waste is not to be expected to react with each other and with the rock.
protection of the surrounding environment (in particular groundwater and surface water), protection of the environmental protection systems (e.g. liners and leachate treatment systems), protection of the desired waste-stabilisation processes within the landfill, protection against human-health hazards.
requirements on knowledge of total composition, limitations on the amount of organic matter in the waste, requirements or limitations on the biodegradability of the organic waste components, limitations on the amount of specified, potentially harmful/hazardous components (in relation to the abovementioned protection criteria), limitations on the potential and expected leachability of specified, potentially harmful/hazardous components (in relation to the abovementioned protection criteria), ecotoxicological properties of the waste and the resulting leachate.
A. Composition of the mercury Metallic mercury shall comply with the following specifications: mercury content greater than 99,9 % per weight, no impurities capable of corroding carbon or stainless steel (e.g. nitric acid solution, chloride salts solutions).
B. Containment Containers used for the storage of metallic mercury shall be corrosion- and shock-resistant. Welds shall therefore be avoided. The containers shall comply in particular with the following specifications: container material: carbon steel (ASTM A36 minimum) or stainless steel (AISI 304, 316L), containers shall be gas and liquid tight, the outer side of the container shall be resistant against the storage conditions, the design type of the container shall successfully pass the drop test and the leakproofness tests as described in Chapters 6.1.5.3 and 6.1.5.4 of the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria.
The maximum filling ratio of the container shall be 80 % by volume to ensure that sufficient ullage is available and neither leakage nor permanent distortion of the container can occur as a result of an expansion of the liquid due to high temperature. C. Acceptance procedures Only containers with a certificate complying with the requirements set out in this Section shall be accepted. Acceptance procedures shall comply with the following: only metallic mercury which fulfils the minimum acceptance criteria set out above shall be accepted, containers shall be visually inspected before storage. Damaged, leaking or corroded containers shall not be accepted, containers shall bear a durable stamp (made by punching) mentioning the identification number of the container, the construction material, its empty weight, the reference of the manufacturer and the date of construction, containers shall bear a plate permanently fixed to the container mentioning the identification number of the certificate.
D. Certificate The certificate indicated in subsection C shall include the following elements: name and address of the waste producer, name and address of the responsible for the filling, place and date of filling, quantity of the mercury, the purity of the mercury and, if relevant, a description of the impurities, including the analytical report, confirmation that the containers have been used exclusively for the transport/storage of mercury, the identification numbers of the containers, any specific comments.
Certificates shall be issued by the producer of the waste or, in default, by the person responsible for its management.
that waste has been accepted to disposal in accordance with the criteria set for the category of landfill in question, that the processes within the landfill proceed as desired, that the environmental protection systems are functioning fully as intended, that the permit conditions for the landfill are fulfilled.
| Operation phase | After-care phase | |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1. Volume of precipitation | daily | daily, added to monthly values |
| 1.2. Temperature (min., max., 14.00 h CET) | daily | monthly average |
| 1.3. Direction and force of prevailing wind | daily | not required |
| 1.4. Evaporation (lysimeter) | daily | daily, added to monthly values |
| 1.5. Atmospheric humidity (14.00 h CET) | daily | monthly average |
| Operating phase | After-care phase | |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1. Leachate volume | monthly | every six months |
| 2.2. Leachate composition | quarterly | every six months |
| 2.3. Volume and composition of surface water | quarterly | every six months |
| 2.4. Potential gas emissions and atmospheric pressure | monthly | every six months |
| Operation phase | After-care phase | |
|---|---|---|
| Level of groundwater | every six months | every six months |
| Groundwater composition | site-specific frequency | site-specific frequency |
| Operating phase | After-care phase | |
|---|---|---|
| 5.1. Structure and composition of landfill body | yearly | |
| 5.2. Settling behaviour of the level of the landfill body | yearly | yearly reading |
A. Monitoring, inspection and emergency requirements A continuous mercury vapour monitoring system with a sensitivity of at least 0,02 mg mercury/m 3 shall be installed in the storage site. Sensors shall be positioned at ground level and head level. This shall include a visual and acoustic alert system. The system shall be maintained annually.The storage site and containers shall be visually inspected by an authorised person at least once a month. Where leaks are detected, the operator shall immediately take all necessary action to avoid any emission of mercury to the environment and restore the safety of the storage of the mercury. Any leaks shall be considered to have significant adverse environmental effects as referred to in Article 12(b). Emergency plans and adequate protective equipment suitable for handling metallic mercury shall be available on site. B. Record keeping All documents containing the information referred to in Section 6 of Annex II and in point A of this Section, including the certificate accompanying the container, as well as records concerning the destocking and dispatch of the metallic mercury after its temporary storage and the destination and intended treatment shall be kept for at least 3 years after the termination of the storage.
1. assessment of the past, current and projected rates of recycling, landfilling and other treatment of municipal waste and the streams of which it is composed; 2. assessment of the implementation of waste management plans and waste prevention programmes in place pursuant to Articles 28 and 29 of Directive 2008/98/EC; 3. reasons for which the Member State considers that it might not be able to attain the relevant target laid down in Article 5(5) within the deadline set therein and an assessment of the time extension necessary to meet that target; 4. measures necessary to attain the targets set out in Article 5(8) of this Directive applicable to the Member State during the time extension, including appropriate economic instruments and other measures to provide incentives for the application of the waste hierarchy as set out in Article 4(1) of, and Annex IVa to, Directive 2008/98/EC; 5. a timetable for the implementation of the measures identified in point 4, determination of the body competent for their implementation and an assessment of their individual contribution to attaining the targets applicable in the event of a time extension; 6. information on funding for waste management in line with the polluter-pays principle; 7. measures to improve data quality, as appropriate, with a view to better planning and monitoring performance in waste management.
(a) the definitions of "waste", "hazardous waste", "non-hazardous waste", "municipal waste", "waste producer", "waste holder", "waste management", "separate collection", "recovery", "preparing for re-use", "recycling" and "disposal" laid down in Article 3 of Directive 2008/98/EC shall apply; (b) " municipal waste " means waste from households, as well as other waste which, because of its nature or composition, is similar to waste from household;(c) " hazardous waste " means any waste which is covered by Article 1(4) of Council Directive 91/689/EEC of 12 December 1991 on hazardous wasteOJ L 377, 31.12.1991, p. 20 . Directive as last amended by Directive 94/31/EC (OJ L 168, 2.7.1994, p. 28 );(d) " non-hazardous waste " means waste which is not covered by paragraph (c);(e) " inert waste " means waste that does not undergo any significant physical, chemical or biological transformations. Inert waste will not dissolve, burn or otherwise physically or chemically react, biodegrade or adversely affect other matter with which it comes into contact in a way likely to give rise to environmental pollution or harm human health. The total leachability and pollutant content of the waste and the ecotoxicity of the leachate must be insignificant, and in particular not endanger the quality of surface water and/or groundwater;(f) " underground storage " means a permanent waste storage facility in a deep geological cavity such as a salt or potassium mine;(g) " landfill " means a waste disposal site for the deposit of the waste onto or into land (i.e. underground), including:internal waste disposal sites (i.e. landfill where a producer of waste is carrying out its own waste disposal at the place of production), and a permanent site (i.e. more than one year) which is used for temporary storage of waste,
but excluding: facilities where waste is unloaded in order to permit its preparation for further transport for recovery, treatment or dispsal elsewhere, and stoarage of waste prior to recovery or treatment for a period less than three years as a general rule, or storage of waste prior to disposal for a period less than one year;
(h) " treatment " means the physical, thermal, chemical or biological processes, including sorting, that change the characteristics of the waste in order to reduce its volume or hazardous nature, facilitate its handling or enhance recovery;(i) " leachate " means any liquid percolating through the deposited waste and emitted from or contained within a landfill;(j) " landfill gas " means all the gases generated from the landfilled waste;(k) " eluate " means the solution obtained by a laboratory leaching test;(l) " operator " means the natural or legal person responsible for a landfill in accordance with the internal legislation of the Member State where the landfill is located; this person may change from the preparation to the after-care phase;(m) " biodegradable waste " means any waste that is capable of undergoing anaerobic or aerobic decomposition, such as food and garden waste, and paper and paperboard;(n) " holder " means the producer of the waste or the natural or legal person who is in possession of it;(o) " applicant " means any person who applies for a landfill permit under this Directive;(p) " competent authority " means that authority which the Member States designate as responsible for performing the duties arising from this Directive;(q) " liquid waste " means any waste in liquid form including waste waters but excluding sludge;(r) " isolated settlement " means a settlement:with no more than 500 inhabitants per municipality or settlement and no more than five inhabitants per square kilometre and, where the distance to the nearest urban agglomeration with at least 250 inhabitants per square kilometre is not less than 50 km, or with difficult access by road to those nearest agglomerations, due to harsh meteorological conditions during a significant part of the year.
In outermost regions within the meaning of Article 349 of the Treaty, Member States may decide to apply the following definition: "isolated settlement" means a settlement: with no more than 2000 inhabitants per settlement and no more than five inhabitants per square kilometre, or with more than2000 but less than5000 inhabitants per settlement and no more than five inhabitants per square kilometre and whose production of waste does not exceed3000 tonnes per year, andwhere the distance to the nearest urban agglomeration with at least 250 inhabitants per square kilometre is not less than 100 km and with no access by road.
the spreading of sludges, including sewage sludges, and sludges resulting from dredging operations, and similar matter on the soil for the purposes of fertilisation or improvement, the use of inert waste which is suitable, in redevelopment/restoration and filling-in work, or for construction purposes, in landfills, the deposit of non-hazardous dredging sludges alongside small waterways from where they have been dredged out and of non-hazardous sludges in surface water including the bed and its sub soil. the deposit of unpolluted soil or of non-hazardous inert waste resulting from prospecting and extraction, treatment, and storage of mineral resources as well as from the operation of quarries.
(a) landfill sites for non-hazardous or inert wastes with a total capacity not exceeding 15000 tonnes or with an annual intake not exceeding1000 tonnes serving islands, where this is the only landfill on the island and where this is exclusively destined for the disposal of waste generated on that island. Once the total capacity of that landfill has been used, any new landfill site established on the island shall comply with the requirements of this Directive;(b) landfill sites for non-hazardous or inert waste in isolated settlements if the landfill site is destined for the disposal of waste generated only by that isolated settlement.
landfill for hazardous waste, landfill for non-hazardous waste, landfill for inert waste.
(a) not later than five years after the date laid down in Article 18(1), biodegradable municipal waste going to landfills must be reduced to 75 % of the total amount (by weight) of biodegradable municipal waste produced in 1995 or the latest year before 1995 for which standardised Eurostat data is available (b) not later than eight years afte the date laid down in Article 18(1), biodegradable municipal waste going to landfills must be reduced to 50 % of the total amount (by weight) of biodegradable municipal waste produced in 1995 or the latest year before 1995 for which stadardised Eurostat data is available; (c) not later than 15 years after the date laid down in Article 18(1), biodegradable municipal waste going to landfills must be reduced to 35 % of the total amount (by weight) of biodegradable municipal waste produced in 1995 or the lates year before 1995 for which standardised Eurostat data is available.
(a) liquid waste; (b) waste which, in the conditions of landfill, is explosive, corrosive, oxidising, highly flammable or flammable, as defined in Annex III to Directive 91/689/EEC; (c) hospital and other clinical wastes arising from medical or veterinary establishments, which are infectious as defined (property H9 in Annex III) by Directive 91/689/EEC and waste falling within category 14 (Annex I.A) of that Directive; (d) whole used tyres from two years from the date laid down in Article 18(1), excluding tyres used as engineering material, and shredded used tyres five years from the date laid down in Article 18(1) (excluding in both instances bicylce tyres and tyres with an outside diameter above 1 400 mm); (e) any other type of waste which does not fulfil the acceptance criteria determined in accordance with Annex II; (f) waste that has been separately collected for preparing for re-use and recycling pursuant to Article 11(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC and Article 22 of that Directive, with the exception of waste resulting from subsequent treatment operations of the separately collected waste for which landfilling delivers the best environmental outcome in accordance with Article 4 of that Directive.
(a) landfilled more than 60 % of its municipal waste generated in 2013 as reported under the Joint Questionnaire of the OECD and Eurostat; and (b) at the latest 24 months before the deadline laid down in paragraph 5 of this Article, notifies the Commission of its intention to postpone the deadline and submits an implementation plan in accordance with Annex IV to this Directive. That plan may be combined with an implementation plan submitted according to point (b) of Article 11(3) of Directive 2008/98/EC.
(a) the weight of the municipal waste generated and directed to landfilling shall be calculated in a given calendar year; (b) the weight of waste resulting from treatment operations prior to recycling or other recovery of municipal waste, such as sorting or mechanical biological treatment, which is subsequently landfilled shall be included in the weight of municipal waste reported as landfilled; (c) the weight of municipal waste that enters incineration disposal operations and the weight of waste produced in the stabilisation operations of the biodegradable fraction of municipal waste in order to be subsequently landfilled shall be reported as landfilled; (d) the weight of waste produced during recycling or other recovery operations of municipal waste which is subsequently landfilled shall not be included in the weight of municipal waste reported as landfilled.
(a) an estimation of the attainment of the targets by each Member State; (b) a list of Member States at risk of not attaining the targets within the respective deadlines accompanied by appropriate recommendations for the Member States concerned; (c) examples of best practices that are used throughout the Union which could provide guidance for progressing towards attaining the targets.
(a) only waste that has been subject to treatment is landfilled. This provision may not apply to inert waste for which treatment is not technically feasible, nor to any other waste for which such treatment does not contribute to the objectives of this Directive, as set out in Article 1, by reducing the quantity of the waste or the hazards to human health or the environment. Member States shall ensure that measures taken in accordance with this point do not compromise the achievement of the objectives of Directive 2008/98/EC, notably on the waste hierarchy and on the increase of preparing for re-use and recycling as set out in Article 11 of that Directive; (b) only hazardous waste that fulfils the criteria set out in accordance with Annex II is assigned to a hazardous landfill; (c) landfill for non-hazardous waste may be used for: (i) municipal waste; (ii) non-hazardous waste of any other origin, which fulfil the criteria for the acceptance of waste at landfill for non-hazardous waste set out in accordance with Annex II; (iii) stable, non-reactive hazardous wastes (e.g. solidified, vitrified), with leaching behaviour equivalent to those of the non-hazardous wastes referred to in point (ii), which fulfil the relevant acceptance criteria set out in accordance with Annex II. These hazarouds wastes shall not be deposited in cells destined for biodegradable non-hazardous waste,
(d) inert waste landfill sites shall be used only for inert waste.
(a) the identity of the applicant and of the operator when they are different entities; (b) the description of the types and total quantity of waste to be deposited; (c) the proposed capacity of the disposal site; (d) the description of the site, including its hydrogeological and geological characteristics; (e) the proposed methods for pollution prevention and abatement; (f) the proposed operation, monitoring and control plan; (g) the proposed plan for the closure and after-care procedures; (h) where an impact assessment is required under Council Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment OJ L 175, 5.7.1985, p. 40 . Directive as amended by Directive 97/11/EC (OJ L 73, 14.3.1997, p. 5 ).(i) the financial security by the applicant, or any other equivalent provision, as required under Article 8(a)(iv) of this Directive.
(a) the competent authority does not issue a landfill permit unless it is satisfied that: (i) without prejudice to Article 3(4) and (5), the landfill project complies with all the relevant requirements of this Directive, including the Annexes; (ii) the management of the landfill site will be in the hands of a natural person who is technically competent to manage the site; professional and technical development and training of landfill operators and staff are provided; (iii) the landfill shall be operated in such a manner that the necessary measures are taken to prevent accidents and limit their consequences; (iv) adequate provisions, by way of a financial security or any other equivalent, on the basis of modalities to be decided by Member States, has been or will be made by the applicant prior to the commencement of disposal operations to ensure that the obligations (including after-care provisions) arising under the permit issued under the provisions of this Directive are discharged and that the closure procedures required by Article 13 are followed. This security or its equivalent shall be kept as long as required by maintenance and after-care operation of the site in accordance with Article 13(d). Member States may declare, at their own option, that this point does not apply to landfills for inert waste;
(b) the landfill project is in line with the relevant waste management plan or plans referred to in Article 7 of Directive 75/442/EEC; (c) prior to the commencement of disposal operations, the competent authority shall inspect the site in order to ensure that it complies with the relevant conditions of the permit. This will not reduce in any way the responsibility of the operator under the conditions of the permit.
(a) the class of the landfill; (b) the list of defined types and the total quantity of waste which are authorised to be deposited in the landfill; (c) requirements for the landfill preparations, landfilling operations and monitoring and control procedures, including contingency plans (Annex III, point 4.B), as well as provisional requirements for the closure and after-care operations; (d) the obligation on the applicant to report at least annually to the competent authority on the types and quantities of waste disposed of and on the results of the monitoring programme as required in Articles 12 and 13 and Annex III.
(a) before or at the time of delivery, or of the first in a series of deliveries, provided the type of waste remains unchanged, the holder or the operator can show, by means of the appropraite documentation, that the waste in question can be accepted at that site according to the conditions set in the permit, and that it fulfils the acceptance criteria set out in Annex II; (b) the following reception procedures are respected by the operator: checking of the waste documentation, including those documents required by Article 5(3) of Directive 91/689/EEC and, where they apply, those required by Council Regulation (EEC) No 259/93 of 1 February 1993 on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Community OJ L 30, 6.2.1993, p. 1 . Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 120/97 (OJ L 22, 24.1.1997, p. 14 ).visual inspection of the waste at the entrance and at the point of deposit and, as appropriate, verification of conformity with the description provided in the documentation submitted by the holder. If representative samples have to be taken in order to implement Annex II, point 3, level 3, the results of the analyses shall be kept and the sampling shall be made in conformity with Annex II, point 5. These samples shall be kept at least one month; keeping a register of the quantities and characteristics of the waste deposited, indicating origin, date of delivery, identity of the producer or collector in the case of municipal waste, and, in the case of hazardous waste, the precise location on the site. This information shall be made available to the competent national and Community statistical authorities when requested for statistical purposes;
(c) the operator of the landfill shall always provide written acknowledgement of receipt of each delivery acepted on the site; (d) without prejudice to the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 259/93, if waste is not accepted at a landfill the operator shall notify without delay the competent authority of the non-acceptance of the waste.
regular visual inspection of the waste at the point of deposit in order to ensure that only non-hazardous waste from the island or the isolated settlement is accepted at the site; and a register on the quantities of waste that are deposited at the site be kept.
(a) the operator of a landfill shall carry out during the operational phase a control and monitoring programme as specified in Annex III; (b) the operator shall notify the competent authority of any significant adverse environmental effects revealed by the control and monitoring procedures and follow the decision of the competent authority on the nature and timing of the corrective measures to be taken. These measures shall be undertaken at the expense of the operator. At a frequency to be determined by the competent authority, and in any event at least once a year, the operator shall report, on the basis of aggregated data, all monitoring results to the competent authorities for the purpose of demonstrating compliance with permit conditions and increasing the knowledge on waste behaviour in the landfills; (c) the quality control of the analytical operations of the control and monitoring procedures and/or of the analyses referred to in Article 11(1)(b) are carried out by competent laboratories.
(a) a landfill or part of it shall start the closure procedure: (i) when the relevant conditions stated in the permit are met; or (ii) under the authorisation of the competent authority, at the request of the operator; or (iii) by reasoned decision of the competent authority;
(b) a landfill or part of it may only be considered as definitely closed after the competent authority has carried out a final on-site inspection, has assessed all the reports submitted by the operator and has communicated to the operator its approval for the closure. This shall not in any way reduce the responsibility of the operator under the conditions of the permit; (c) after a landfill has been definitely closed, the operator shall be responsible for its maintenance, monitoring and control in the after-care phase for as long as may be required by the competent authority, taking into account the time during which the landfill could present hazards. The operator shall notify the competent authority of any significant adverse environmental effects revealed by the control procedures and shall follow the decision of the competent authority on the nature and timing of the corrective measures to be taken; (d) for as long as the competent authority considers that a landfill is likely to cause a hazard to the environment and without prejudice to any Community or national legislation as regards liability of the waste holder, the operator of the site shall be responsible for monitoring and analysing landfill gas and leachate from the site and the groundwater regime in the vicinity of the site in accordance with Annex III.
(a) with a period of one year after the date laid down in Article 18(1), the operator of a landfill shall prepare and present to the competent authorities, for their approval, a conditioning plan for the site including the particulars listed in Article 8 and any corrective measures which the operator considers will be needed in order to comply with the requirements of this Directive with the exception of the requirements in Annex I, point 1; (b) following the presentation of the conditioning plan, the competent authorities shall take a definite decision on whether operations may continue on the basis of the said conditioning plan and this Directive. Member States shall take the necessary measures to close down as soon as possible, in accordance with Article 7(g) and 13, sites which have not been granted, in accordance with Article 8, a permit to continue to operate; (c) on the basis of the approved site-conditioning plan, the competent authority shall authorise the necessary work and shall lay down a transitional period for the completion of the plan. Any existing landfill shall comply with the requirements of this Directive with the exception of the requirements in Annex I, point 1 within eight years after the date laid down in Article 18(1); (d) (i) within one year after the date laid down in Article 18(1), Articles 4, 5, and 11 and Annex II shall apply to landfills for hazardous waste; (ii) within three years after the date laid down in Article 18(1), Article 6 shall apply to landfills for hazardous waste.
(a) the distances from the boundary of the site to residential and recreation areas, waterways, water bodies and other agricultural or urban sites; (b) the existence of groundwater, coastal water or nature protection zones in the area; (c) the geological and hydrogeological conditions in the area; (d) the risk of flooding, subsidence, landslides or avalanches on the site; (e) the protection of the nature or cultural patrimony in the area.
control water from precipitations entering into the landfill body, prevent surface water and/or groundwater from entering into the landfilled waste, collect contaminated water and leachate. If an assessment based on consideration of the location of the landfill and the waste to be accepted shows that the landfill poses no potential hazard to the environment, the competent authority may decide that this provision does not apply, treat contaminated water and leachate collected from the landfill to the appropriate standard required for their discharge.
landfill for hazardous waste: K ≤ 1,0 × 10 - 9 m/s; thickness ≥ 5 m,landfill for non-hazardous waste: K ≤ 1,0 × 10 - 9 m/s; thickness ≥ 1 m,landfill for inert waste: K ≤ 1,0 × 10 - 7 m/s; thickness ≥ 1 m,
| Landfill category | non hazardous | hazardous |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial sealing liner | required | required |
| Drainage layer ≥ 0,5 m | required | required |
| Landfill category | non hazardous | hazardous |
|---|---|---|
| Gas drainage layer | required | not required |
| Artificial sealing liner | not required | required |
| Impermeable mineral layer | required | required |
| Drainage layer > 0,5 m | required | required |
| Top soil cover > 1 m | required | required. |
emissions of odours and dust, wind-blown materials, noise and traffic, birds, vermin and insects, formation and aerosols, fires.
Metallic mercury shall be stored separately from other waste. Containers shall be stored in collecting basins suitably coated so as to be free of cracks and gaps and impervious to metallic mercury with a containment volume adequate for the quantity of mercury stored. The storage site shall be provided with engineered or natural barriers that are adequate to protect the environment against mercury emissions and a containment volume adequate for the total quantity of mercury stored. The storage site floors shall be covered with mercury-resistant sealants. A slope with a collection sump shall be provided. The storage site shall be equipped with a fire protection system. Storage shall be arranged in a way to ensure that all containers are easily retrievable.
general principles for acceptance of waste at the various classes of landfills. The future waste classification procedure should be based on these principles, guidelines outlining preliminary waste acceptance procedures to be followed until a uniform waste classification and acceptance procedure has been developed. This procedure will, together with the relevant sampling procedures, be developed by the technical Committee referred to in Article 16 of this Directive. The technical Committee shall develop criteria which have to be fulfilled for certain hazardous waste to be accepted in landfills for non-hazardous waste. These criteria should, in particular, take into account the short, medium and long term leaching behaviour of such waste. These criteria shall be developed within two years of the entry into force of this Directive. The technical Committee shall also develop criteria which have to be fulfilled for waste to be accepted in underground storage. These criteria must take into account, in particular, that the waste is not to be expected to react with each other and with the rock.
protection of the surrounding environment (in particular groundwater and surface water), protection of the environmental protection systems (e.g. liners and leachate treatment systems), protection of the desired waste-stabilisation processes within the landfill, protection against human-health hazards.
requirements on knowledge of total composition, limitations on the amount of organic matter in the waste, requirements or limitations on the biodegradability of the organic waste components, limitations on the amount of specified, potentially harmful/hazardous components (in relation to the abovementioned protection criteria), limitations on the potential and expected leachability of specified, potentially harmful/hazardous components (in relation to the abovementioned protection criteria), ecotoxicological properties of the waste and the resulting leachate.
A. Composition of the mercury Metallic mercury shall comply with the following specifications: mercury content greater than 99,9 % per weight, no impurities capable of corroding carbon or stainless steel (e.g. nitric acid solution, chloride salts solutions).
B. Containment Containers used for the storage of metallic mercury shall be corrosion- and shock-resistant. Welds shall therefore be avoided. The containers shall comply in particular with the following specifications: container material: carbon steel (ASTM A36 minimum) or stainless steel (AISI 304, 316L), containers shall be gas and liquid tight, the outer side of the container shall be resistant against the storage conditions, the design type of the container shall successfully pass the drop test and the leakproofness tests as described in Chapters 6.1.5.3 and 6.1.5.4 of the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria.
The maximum filling ratio of the container shall be 80 % by volume to ensure that sufficient ullage is available and neither leakage nor permanent distortion of the container can occur as a result of an expansion of the liquid due to high temperature. C. Acceptance procedures Only containers with a certificate complying with the requirements set out in this Section shall be accepted. Acceptance procedures shall comply with the following: only metallic mercury which fulfils the minimum acceptance criteria set out above shall be accepted, containers shall be visually inspected before storage. Damaged, leaking or corroded containers shall not be accepted, containers shall bear a durable stamp (made by punching) mentioning the identification number of the container, the construction material, its empty weight, the reference of the manufacturer and the date of construction, containers shall bear a plate permanently fixed to the container mentioning the identification number of the certificate.
D. Certificate The certificate indicated in subsection C shall include the following elements: name and address of the waste producer, name and address of the responsible for the filling, place and date of filling, quantity of the mercury, the purity of the mercury and, if relevant, a description of the impurities, including the analytical report, confirmation that the containers have been used exclusively for the transport/storage of mercury, the identification numbers of the containers, any specific comments.
Certificates shall be issued by the producer of the waste or, in default, by the person responsible for its management.
that waste has been accepted to disposal in accordance with the criteria set for the category of landfill in question, that the processes within the landfill proceed as desired, that the environmental protection systems are functioning fully as intended, that the permit conditions for the landfill are fulfilled.
| Operation phase | After-care phase | |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1. Volume of precipitation | daily | daily, added to monthly values |
| 1.2. Temperature (min., max., 14.00 h CET) | daily | monthly average |
| 1.3. Direction and force of prevailing wind | daily | not required |
| 1.4. Evaporation (lysimeter) | daily | daily, added to monthly values |
| 1.5. Atmospheric humidity (14.00 h CET) | daily | monthly average |
| Operating phase | After-care phase | |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1. Leachate volume | monthly | every six months |
| 2.2. Leachate composition | quarterly | every six months |
| 2.3. Volume and composition of surface water | quarterly | every six months |
| 2.4. Potential gas emissions and atmospheric pressure | monthly | every six months |
| Operation phase | After-care phase | |
|---|---|---|
| Level of groundwater | every six months | every six months |
| Groundwater composition | site-specific frequency | site-specific frequency |
| Operating phase | After-care phase | |
|---|---|---|
| 5.1. Structure and composition of landfill body | yearly | |
| 5.2. Settling behaviour of the level of the landfill body | yearly | yearly reading |
A. Monitoring, inspection and emergency requirements A continuous mercury vapour monitoring system with a sensitivity of at least 0,02 mg mercury/m 3 shall be installed in the storage site. Sensors shall be positioned at ground level and head level. This shall include a visual and acoustic alert system. The system shall be maintained annually.The storage site and containers shall be visually inspected by an authorised person at least once a month. Where leaks are detected, the operator shall immediately take all necessary action to avoid any emission of mercury to the environment and restore the safety of the storage of the mercury. Any leaks shall be considered to have significant adverse environmental effects as referred to in Article 12(b). Emergency plans and adequate protective equipment suitable for handling metallic mercury shall be available on site. B. Record keeping All documents containing the information referred to in Section 6 of Annex II and in point A of this Section, including the certificate accompanying the container, as well as records concerning the destocking and dispatch of the metallic mercury after its temporary storage and the destination and intended treatment shall be kept for at least 3 years after the termination of the storage.
1. assessment of the past, current and projected rates of recycling, landfilling and other treatment of municipal waste and the streams of which it is composed; 2. assessment of the implementation of waste management plans and waste prevention programmes in place pursuant to Articles 28 and 29 of Directive 2008/98/EC; 3. reasons for which the Member State considers that it might not be able to attain the relevant target laid down in Article 5(5) within the deadline set therein and an assessment of the time extension necessary to meet that target; 4. measures necessary to attain the targets set out in Article 5(8) of this Directive applicable to the Member State during the time extension, including appropriate economic instruments and other measures to provide incentives for the application of the waste hierarchy as set out in Article 4(1) of, and Annex IVa to, Directive 2008/98/EC; 5. a timetable for the implementation of the measures identified in point 4, determination of the body competent for their implementation and an assessment of their individual contribution to attaining the targets applicable in the event of a time extension; 6. information on funding for waste management in line with the polluter-pays principle; 7. measures to improve data quality, as appropriate, with a view to better planning and monitoring performance in waste management.