Polychlorinated Terphenyls) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013

L.N. 356 of 2013

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 504)

Waste Management (Polychlorinated Biphenyls and

Polychlorinated Terphenyls) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 61 and 62 of

the Environment and Development Planning Act, the Minister for for

Sustainable Planning, the Environment and Climate Change, after

consultation with the Malta Environment and Planning Authority, has

made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Waste Management Citation.

(Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Polychlorinated Terphenyls)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2013, and these regulations shall be read

and construed as one with the Waste Management (Polychlorinated S.L. 504.52

Biphenyls and Polychlorinated Terphenyls) Regulations, hereinafter

referred to as "the principal regulations".

Regulation 6 of the principal regulations shall be Substitutes

regulation 6 of

substituted by the following

the principal

regulations.

" Permit.

(1)

All undertakings engaged in

the decontamination and, or disposal of PCBs,

used PCBs and, or equipment containing PCBs

shall be in possession of a valid permit in

accordance with the Waste Regulations

Provided that where incineration is

used for disposal, the Industrial Emissions

(Waste Incineration) Regulations shall apply

Provided further that the competent

authority may accept other methods of

disposing of PCBs, used PCBs and, or

equipment containing PCBs if they achieve

equivalent environmental safety standards and

fulfil the technical requirements referred to as

best available techniques.

(2) The competent authority shall

individually or jointly with the competent

authorities of other Member States take the

necessary measures to ensure that installations

for the disposal, decontamination and safe

storage of PCBs, used PCBs and, or equipment

containing PCBs are developed, if appropriate

and taking account of Article 11(3) of

Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European

Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006

on shipments of waste and the provisions of

paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 5 of the Waste

Regulations.".

3. Regulations 16 to 19 of the principal regulations shall be

Renumbers

regulations 16

renumbered respectively as regulations 17 to 20.

to 19 of the

principal

regulations.

4. Immediately after regulation 15 of the principal

Adds new

regulation to the

regulations, there shall be added the following new regulation

principal

regulations.

" Plans and

The competent authority shall draw

outlines for

up

decontamina-

(a)

plans for the decontamination

tion and

disposal.

and, or disposal of inventoried equipment

and the PCBs contained therein; and

(b)

outlines for the collection and

subsequent disposal of equipment which is

not subject to inventory in accordance

with regulation 4(1), as referred to in

regulation 12.".

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