4.—(1) In these Regulations, “the Hazardous Waste Directive” means Council Directive 91/689/EEC(1) of 31st December 1991 on hazardous waste, as amended by Council Directive 94/31/EC(2).
(2) A reference in these Regulations to—
(a)Annex I, Annex II or Annex III is a reference to the annex of the Hazardous Waste Directive so numbered, as that annex is for the time being set out in these Regulations as follows—
(i)Schedule 1, which sets out Annex I (Categories or generic types of hazardous waste listed according to their nature or the activity which generated them);
(ii)Schedule 2, which sets out Annex II (Constituents of the wastes in Annex I.B which render them hazardous when they have the properties described in Annex III); and
(iii)Schedule 3, which sets out Annex III (Properties of wastes which render them hazardous);
(b)hazardous properties is a reference to the properties in Annex III as so set out.
O.J. No. L377, 31.12.1991, p. 20
O.J. No. L168, 2.7.1994, p. 28