Statutory Instrument 2001 No. 3585

      The Pollution Prevention and Control (Designation of Landfill Directive) Order 2001


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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2001 No. 3585

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Pollution Prevention and Control (Designation of Landfill Directive) Order 2001

  Made 5th November 2001 
  Coming into force 12th November 2001 

The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by paragraph 20(2)(c) of Schedule 1 to the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999[1], hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and application
     1.  - (1) This Order may be cited as the Pollution Prevention and Control (Designation of Landfill Directive) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 12th November 2001.

    (2) This Order extends to England and Wales only.

Designation
    
2. Council Directive 99/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste[2] is designated as a relevant directive for the purposes of paragraph 20(2)(c) of Schedule 1 to the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999.


Michael Meacher
Minister of State Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

5th November 2001



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order designates Council Directive 99/31/EC on the landfill of waste ("the Landfill Directive") as a relevant directive for the purposes of paragraph 20(2)(c) of Schedule 1 to the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 ("the Act").

Schedule 1 to the Act specifies particular purposes for which provision regulating polluting activities may be made under section 2 of the Act. Paragraph 20(1)(b) allows for making provision which corresponds to or is similar to any provision made, or capable of being made, under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in connection with one of the relevant directives. The relevant directives are Council Directive 96/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control, Council Directive 75/442/EEC on waste, as amended, and any other directive of the Council of the European Communities designated by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this paragraph by order made by statutory instrument.


Notes:

[1] 1999 c. 24; the Secretary of State can exercise these powers only in relation to England and Wales - see section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) and section 5(3) of the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999.back

[2] OJ No. L182, 16.7.99, p. 1.back



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