ANNEX XIII

| 1. | The installation located in a third country involved in the production of recycled material shall fulfil the following conditions in its actual operations: (a) it complies with the requirements to recycle waste and carries out its activities in accordance with the applicable national legislation on environmental protection; (b) it is designed, constructed and operated in a safe and environmentally sound manner and, in particular, it has the required processes, appropriate waste management technology, organisation and infrastructure in place to recycle the waste in question; (c) it sources its plastic waste from a Member State or a country which complies with Union law or equivalent standards as the Member States in terms of protection of the environment and the safety of workers and operates in such a country in accordance with the criteria defined in paragraph 3; (d) it establishes and operates management and monitoring systems, procedures and techniques that have the purpose of preventing, reducing, minimising and to the extent practicable eliminating: (i) health and safety risks to workers concerned and to the population in the vicinity of the facility; and (ii) adverse effects on the environment caused by its activities (in particular through adequate measures taken to monitor and address pollution); (e) it ensures the traceability of all waste received and treated at the facility, including ensuring that all residual waste generated from its activities are documented and are only transferred to waste management facilities that are authorised to treat such residual waste; (f) it has taken measures designed to save energy and limit the emissions of greenhouse gases linked to its activities; (g) it establishes and is able to provide records of its waste management activities for the last five years; if an installation has operated for less than five years, it establishes and is able to provide records of its waste management activities for the time it has operated; (h) its operator or the management thereof have not been convicted of having carried out illegal activities linked to waste management in the last five years. | 2. | The following or equivalent rules shall be taken into account, as a point of reference and where relevant: (a) specific requirements for the treatment of certain waste and on the calculation of the quantity of waste treated, which are mandatory under Union legislation, and on the accounting of the quantities of recycled materials produced; (b) the Best Available Techniques conclusions adopted for certain activities under Directive 2010/75/EU. | 3. | The plastic waste shall be treated in a manner according to requirements set out in Union law or equivalent to those requirements and shall come from a Member State or country with a comprehensive waste management framework covering its entire territory and demonstrating its ability and willingness to guarantee environmentally sound waste management, taking into account in particular the following criteria: (a) the measures implemented and planned to ensure the environmentally sound management of waste within its territory, such as the introduction of an extended producer responsibility scheme or an equivalent system implementing the polluter pays principle; (b) the measures implemented and planned to increase the proportion of post-consumer plastic recycled from vehicles, and the indicators for monitoring these measures; (c) the measures implemented and planned to increase the proportion of post-consumer recycled plastic incorporated in vehicles placed on the national market, and the indicators for monitoring these measures. The installation located in a third country involved in the production of recycled material shall fulfil the following conditions in its actual operations: The installation shall be able to provide evidence that it is producing materials recycled from post-consumer waste. If the installation is also producing materials derived from pre-consumer waste or derived from raw materials, it shall be able to demonstrate that it clearly distinguishes between the different types of materials. The installation shall ensure that it is only supplying materials recycled from post-consumer waste, as a condition for this material to be accounted for as part of the targets set out in Article 6; An installation producing recycled materials from post-consumer waste derived from end-of-life vehicles or repaired vehicles shall be able to demonstrate that such waste has been collected separately and was not mixed with materials from other origins in such a way that would prevent traceability of this waste before its arrival on the installation and during the whole recycling process.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-14 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.