Suitable recycling technologies
Article 3
1. A recycling technology shall be considered suitable if it is shown to be capable of recycling waste into recycled plastic materials and articles that comply with Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 and are microbiologically safe. 2. Recycling technologies shall be distinguished based on the following properties: (a) the type, mode of collection and origin of the input material; (b) the specific combination of physical and chemical concepts, principles and practices used to decontaminate that input material; (c) the type and the intended use of the recycled plastic materials and articles; (d) the need or absence thereof for the evaluation and authorisation of recycling processes applying that technology, and the criteria therefore. 3. Suitable recycling technologies are listed in Annex I. Annex I may be amended in accordance with Articles 15 and 16. 4. Where the capacity to achieve sufficient decontamination of recycling processes that use a certain recycling technology depends on the precise specification of the input, the detailed configuration of those processes or on the applied operating conditions, and when that specification, configuration or those conditions cannot be laid down in simple rules at the time that technology is established as suitable, each recycling process using that technology shall be individually authorised by the Commission in accordance with the procedure laid down in Chapter V, and in particular Article 19(1) thereof (‘the authorisation’). 5. Annex I shall specify whether for a recycling technology individual recycling processes are to be authorised. 6. Any recycling technology that has not been subject to a decision on its suitability in accordance with Article 15 or 16 shall be regarded as a novel technology for the purpose of this Regulation.