Consultation on proposed amendments to the Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005
This consultation closed on Friday 6 February 2009.
The Hazardous Waste Regulations transpose the requirements of the EC’s Hazardous Waste Directive (91/689/EEC) and set out requirements for the controlled management of hazardous waste from the point of production to the final point of disposal or recovery. The Regulations came into force in July 2005 and are working well. However, in the light of operational experience we are now proposing a few relatively minor amendments to minimise the burden on operators and to further clarify the intention of certain parts of the Regulations.
The main change proposed is a widening of the existing exemption from the requirement to notify premises producing hazardous waste to the Environment Agency. Under the 2005 Regulations certain specified low risk premises have been exempt from the notification requirement if they produce less than 200kg of hazardous waste per year. We are now proposing to extend this exemption to all premises that produce less than 500kg in a year and estimate that around 72,600 producers of hazardous waste will benefit from this change.
- Consultation letter
- List of consultees
- Consultation document (PDF 50 KB)
- Impact assessment (PDF 30 KB)
- Draft statutory instrument (PDF 400 KB)
- Summary of responses (PDF 160 KB)
Further information
Page last modified: 20 March 2009
Page published: 13 November 2008