Council Directive 96/59/ECShow full title

Article 2

For the purposes of this Directive:

(a)

‘PCBs’ means:

• polychlorinated biphenyls,

• polychlorinated terphenyls,

• Monomethyl-tetrachlorodiphenyl methane, Mono-methyl-dichloro-diphenyl methane, Monomethyl-dibromo-diphenyl methane,

• any mixture containing any of the abovemen-tioned substances in a total of more than 0,005 % by weight;

(b)

‘equipment containing PCBs’ means any equipment containing PCBs or having contained PCBs (e.g. transformers, capacitors, receptacles containing residual stocks) which has not been decontaminated. Equipment of a type which may contain PCBs shall be treated as if it contains PCBs unless it is reasonable to assume the contrary;

(c)

‘used PCBs’ means any PCBs which are waste within the meaning of Directive 75/442/EEC;

(d)

‘holder’ means the natural or legal person who is in possession of PCBs, used PCBs and/or equipment containing PCBs;

(e)

‘decontamination’ means all operations which enable equipment, objects, materials or fluids contaminated by PCBs to be reused, recycled or disposed of under safe conditions, and which may include replacement, meaning all operations in which PCBs are replaced by suitable fluids not containing PCBs;

(f)

‘disposal’ means operations D 8, D 9, D 10, D 12 (only in safe, deep, underground storage in dry rock formations and only for equipment containing PCBs and used PCBs which cannot be decontaminated) and D 15 provided for in Annex II A of Directive 75/442/EEC.