Judgment_paragraph 2 · Commission of the European Communities v Italian Republic (C-255/05)

2Article 1 of Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1975 on waste (OJ 1975 L 194, p. 39), as amended by Commission Decision 96/350/EC of 24 May 1996 (OJ 1996 L 135, p. 32) (‘Directive 75/442'), is worded thus:Tor the purposes of this Directive:(a) “waste” shall mean any substance or object in the categories set out in Annex I which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard....(d) “management” shall mean the collection, transport, recovery and disposal of waste, including the supervision of such operations and aftercare of disposal sites;(e) “disposal” shall mean any of the operations provided for in Annex IIA;(f) “recovery” shall mean any of the operations provided for in Annex IIB;...’