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| 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.

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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.