Directive 2008/98/EC

means any recovery operation where suitable non-hazardous waste is used for purposes of reclamation in excavated areas or for engineering purposes in landscaping.

means best available techniques as defined in Article 2(11) of Directive 96/61/EC;

means biodegradable garden and park waste, food and kitchen waste from households, offices, restaurants, wholesale, canteens, caterers and retail premises and comparable waste from food processing plants;

means any undertaking arranging the recovery or disposal of waste on behalf of others, including such brokers who do not take physical possession of the waste;

means the gathering of waste, including the preliminary sorting and preliminary storage of waste for the purposes of transport to a waste treatment facility;

means waste generated by construction and demolition activities;

means any natural person acting for purposes which are outside their trade, business, craft or profession;

means any undertaking which acts in the role of principal to purchase and subsequently sell waste, including such dealers who do not take physical possession of the waste;

means any operation which is not recovery even where the operation has as a secondary consequence the reclamation of substances or energy.

means end user as defined in Article 3, point (21), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;

means a set of measures taken by Member States to ensure that producers of products bear financial responsibility or financial and organisational responsibility for the management of the waste stage of a product’s life cycle.

means all food as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council that has become waste;

means fulfilment service provider as defined in Article 3, point (11), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means waste which displays one or more of the hazardous properties listed in Annex III;

means any supply of a textile, textile-related or footwear product listed in Annex IVc for distribution or use on the market of a Member State in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;

means any recovery operation, other than energy recovery and the reprocessing into materials that are to be used as fuels or other means to generate energy.

means: Municipal waste does not include waste from production, agriculture, forestry, fishing, septic tanks and sewage network and treatment, including sewage sludge, end-of-life vehicles or construction and demolition waste.

means waste which is not covered by point 2;

means online platform as defined in Article 3, point (i), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means checking, cleaning or repairing recovery operations, by which products or components of products that have become waste are prepared so that they can be re-used without any other pre-processing;

means measures taken before a substance, material or product has become waste, that reduce:

means any manufacturer, importer or distributor or other natural or legal person, that, irrespective of the selling technique used, including by means of distance contracts as defined in Article 2, point (7), of Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, either: ‘producer of textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc’ does not include manufacturers, importers or distributors or other natural or legal persons that supply used textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc assessed as fit for re-use, or textile, textile-related or footwear products listed in Annex IVc derived from those used or waste products or their parts on the market, or self-employed tailors producing customised products;

means a legal entity that financially, or financially and operationally, organises the fulfilment of extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers;

means any operation by which products or components that are not waste are used again for the same purpose for which they were conceived;

means any operation the principal result of which is waste serving a useful purpose by replacing other materials which would otherwise have been used to fulfil a particular function, or waste being prepared to fulfil that function, in the plant or in the wider economy.

means any recovery operation by which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials or substances whether for the original or other purposes.

means any recycling operation whereby base oils can be produced by refining waste oils, in particular by removing the contaminants, the oxidation products and the additives contained in such oils;

means the collection where a waste stream is kept separately by type and nature so as to facilitate a specific treatment;

means a private law entity that provides goods or services and operates in accordance with the following principles:

means recovery or disposal operations, including preparation prior to recovery or disposal;

means unsold consumer product as defined in Article 2, point 37, of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means any substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard;

means the waste producer or the natural or legal person who is in possession of the waste;

means the collection, transport, recovery (including sorting), and disposal of waste, including the supervision of such operations and the after-care of disposal sites, and including actions taken as a dealer or broker;

means any mineral or synthetic lubrication or industrial oils which have become unfit for the use for which they were originally intended, such as used combustion engine oils and gearbox oils, lubricating oils, oils for turbines and hydraulic oils;

means anyone whose activities produce waste (original waste producer) or anyone who carries out pre-processing, mixing or other operations resulting in a change in the nature or composition of this waste;