Waste management: landfill

COMMUNITY MEASURE : Council Decision 2003/33/EC establishing criteria and procedures for the acceptance of waste at landfills pursuant to Article 16 of and Annex II to Directive 1999/31/EC. CONTENT : the Council adopted Decision establishing criteria and procedures for the acceptance of waste at landfills. The Decision expands on the preliminary criteria and procedures for the acceptance of waste established in Annex II of Directive 99/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste (so-called Landfill Directive). The Decision lays down: - the procedures for characterising waste, checking compliance of the waste with the acceptance criteria and the on-site verification that the waste arriving at the landfill is identical to the waste described in the documents; - acceptance criteria and limit values for inert waste, for certain non-hazardous waste, for stable non-reactive hazardous waste accepted at landfills for non-hazardous waste, for hazardous waste and for underground storage; - the different test methods to be used. Waste resulting from prospecting, extraction, treatment and storage of mineral resources and from the working of quarries is not covered by this Decision, when they are deposited on-site. ENTRY INTO FORCE : 16/07/2004. Member States shall apply the criteria set out in section 2 of the Annex to this Decision by 16/07/2005.�