Article 3

1. Member States shall take appropriate steps to encourage the prevention, recycling and processing of waste, the extraction of raw materials and possibly of energy therefrom and any other process for the re-use of waste. 2. They shall inform the Commission in good time of any draft rules to such effect and, in particular, of any draft rule concerning: (a) the use of products which might be a source of technical difficulties as regards disposal or lead to excessive disposal costs; the encouragement of: - the reduction in the quantities of certain waste, the treatment of waste for its recycling and re-use, the recovery of raw materials and/or the production of energy from certain waste; the use of certain natural resources, including energy resources, in applications where they may be replaced by recovered materials.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-28 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.