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Waste legislation

In the European Union, almost all areas concerning the environment are now covered by Community law. This also applies to the extensive domain of waste management.

Presently, a wide range of legal acts in the EU environmental law cover waste disposal. The following guidelines and regulations are of particular importance in relation to waste legislation:

  • Waste Framework Directive
  • Waste Shipment Regulation
  • Battery Directive
  • Landfill Directive
  • Sewage Sludge Directive
  • Directive on the disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls and polychlorinated terphenyls (PCB/PCT)
  • Directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment
  • Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment
  • Packaging Directive
  • Regulation (EU) 2017/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2017 on mercury, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1102/2008
  • Regulation on persistent organic pollutants

 

Notification obligation to the SCIP database

If products contain more than 0.1% of substances of very high concern (SVHCs), suppliers are required to provide information and notify of the products in accordance with Articles 7 and 33 of the REACH Regulation.

Furthermore, further obligations will apply to suppliers of products if they have an SVHC content of more than 0.1% as of 5th January 2021. These information requirements, which are established in Article 9 of the Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC, exist towards ECHA. The data is received via the SCIP database (Substances of Concern In articles as such or in complex objects (Products)). This is to ensure the availability of information about SVHCs in products over the entire life cycle, including the waste area. This information is intended, for example, to support companies operating in the waste sector in identifying waste containing an SVHC and, if necessary, in separating it before processing.

The SCIP database thus complements the reporting requirements according to REACH. It is an extension of the REACH obligations, which, however, was not done by supplementing the REACH regulation but through the “special path” of waste legislation.

The information in the SCIP database should also be publicly available.