§2.1.4 Landfill Directive

The Landfill Directive contains rules on the management, permit conditions, closure, and after-care of landfills. The Council Decision 2003/33/EC specifies acceptance criteria for waste for the different classes of landfills as recognised by the Landfill Directive. Analyses made in the frame of WAC usually cannot be used for the classification of waste according the LoW. Box 5: The Landfill Directive Directive 1999/31/EC on landfill of waste (‘Landfill Directive’) (14) contains rules on the management, permit conditions, closure, and after-care of landfills. Council Decision 2003/33/EC, specifies waste acceptance criteria (‘WAC’) for acceptance of waste in the different classes of landfills as recognised by the Landfill Directive. The classification of waste as hazardous according to LoW and Annex III to the WFD is important also for the purposes of the Landfill Directive since hazardous waste should as a general rule be disposed of at landfills for hazardous waste, and non-hazardous waste should be disposed of at landfills for non-hazardous waste or inert waste. Stable, non-reactive hazardous wastes may be disposed of at landfills for non-hazardous wastes if the conditions set out in Annex II of the Landfill Directive and the WAC are fulfilled. Appendix B to the Council Decision 2003/33/EC clearly states the role of ‘basic characterisation’ and the resulting conclusions on hazardousness, on the landfill admission of waste and illustrates this approach in its Figure 1. However, classification of waste as hazardous or not, according to the principles of the WFD and pursuant to the LoW must not be confused with the assessment of waste in order to determine compliance with the criteria for acceptance of waste as set out by Annex II to the Landfill Directive and as laid down in Council Decision 2003/33/EC (WAC Decision).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07