SI · In force · Made 19 December 2011 · 8 regulations
The Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 (“WET Act”) establishes a system of targets for reducing the amount of biodegradable municipal waste that is sent to landfill in each region in the UK and in the UK as a whole. This gives effect to the UK’s obligations under article 5(2) of Council Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste (OJ No L 182, 17.7.1999, p. 1).
(1) The title of these Regulations is the Landfill Allowances Scheme (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2011.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 16 January 2012 and apply in relation to Wales.
(3) In these Regulations “the 2004 Regulations” (“ Rheoliadau 2004 ”) means the Landfill Allowances Scheme (Wales) Regulations 2004 .
In regulation 2(1) —
(a) omit the definition of “the Assembly” (“ y Cynulliad ”);
(b) omit the definition of “collected municipal waste” (“ gwastraff trefol a gasglwyd ”);
(c) in the appropriate places insert—
“biodegradable collected municipal waste” (“ gwastraff trefol pydradwy a gasglwyd ”) means biodegradable local authority collected municipal waste ;
“collected municipal waste” (“ gwastraff trefol a gasglwyd ”) means local authority collected municipal waste ;
(d) omit the definitions of “waste collection authority” (“ awdurdod casglu gwastraff ”) and “waste disposal authority” (“ awdurdod gwaredu gwastraff ”).
In the following places for “municipal waste” substitute “collected municipal waste”—
(a) regulation 6(1)(b) and (c);
(b) in the second place where it occurs in regulation 14(2)(i);
(c) regulation 14(2)(ii).
For regulation 8 substitute—
Determining the amount of biodegradable collected municipal waste in an amount of collected municipal waste
(8) Sixty-one percent of an amount of collected municipal waste is deemed to be biodegradable collected municipal waste.
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