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The following shall be excluded from the scope of this Directive: (a) gaseous effluents emitted into the atmosphere and carbon dioxide captured and transported for the purposes of geological storage and geologically stored in accordance with Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 1 ); (b) land (in situ) including unexcavated contaminated soil and buildings permanently connected with land; (c) uncontaminated soil and other naturally occurring material excavated in the course of construction activities where it is certain that the material will be used for the purposes of construction in its natural state on the site from which it was excavated; (d) radioactive waste; (e) decommissioned explosives; (f) faecal matter, if not covered by paragraph 2(b), straw and other natural non-hazardous agricultural or forestry material used in farming, forestry or for the production of energy from such biomass through processes or methods which do not harm the environment or endanger human health.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-08-09