2003 No. 343

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Landfill (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003

Made

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(1)

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 19991 (the “1999 Act”), and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, having in accordance with section 2(4) of the 1999 Act consulted the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, such bodies or persons appearing to them to be representative of the interests of local government, industry, agriculture and small businesses respectively, and such other bodies and persons as they consider appropriate, and having by order made by statutory instrument2 designated Directive 99/31/EC3 (“the Landfill Directive”) as a relevant directive for the purposes of paragraph 20(2)(c) of Schedule 1 to the 1999 Act, hereby make the following Regulations, a draft of which has in accordance with section 2(8) of the 1999 Act been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Scottish Parliament:

Citation, commencement and extent1

1

These regulations may be cited as the Landfill (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

2

These Regulations extend to Scotland only.

Amendment of the Landfill (Scotland) Regulations 2003

2

The Landfill (Scotland) Regulations 20034 are amended as follows.

3

In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)–

a

after the definition of “biodegradable waste” there is inserted–

  • “European Waste Catalogue” means the list of wastes pursuant to Article 1(a) of the Waste Framework Directive and Article 1(4) of Directive 91/689/EEC on hazardous waste5 set out in Commission Decision 2000/532/EC6;”;

    1. a

      for the definition of “waste” there is substituted ““waste” has the meaning given by Article 1(a) of the Waste Framework Directive and includes substances or categories of substances listed in the European Waste Catalogue;”; and

    2. b

      after the definition of “waste” there is inserted ““Waste Framework Directive” means Directive 75/442/EEC on waste7;”.

4

In regulation 19 (offences) for paragraph (3) there is substituted–

3

where an offence under this regulation committed–

a

by a body corporate, is committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to any neglect on the part of, a person who–

i

is a director, manager or secretary of the body corporate; or

ii

purports to act in any such capacity; or

b

by a Scottish partnership, is committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to any neglect on the part of, a person who–

i

is a partner; or

ii

purports to act in that capacity,

that person as well as the body corporate or Scottish partnership is guilty of the offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

5

In Schedule 6 in paragraph 3(14)(a) for “paragraph 1(9)” there is substituted “paragraph 1(6)”.

ROSS FINNIEA member of the Scottish ExecutiveSt Andrew’s House, Edinburgh

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These regulations amend the Landfill (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (the “principal Regulations”).

Regulation 3 clarifies the definition of waste in regulation 2 of the principal Regulations. For the purposes of the principal Regulations “waste” is to be defined by reference to the definition of waste in Council Directive 75/442/EEC on waste and shall include any substance or category of substance listed in the European Waste Catalogue.

Regulation 4 amends regulation 19 of the principal Regulations so as to enable the prosecution of Scottish partnerships and partners of a Scottish Partnership or persons purporting to act in that capacity for offences under the principal Regulations.

Regulation 5 corrects a numerical error.