PART 1General

Interpretation2.

(1)

In these Regulations–

“the Act” means the Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003;

“collected municipal waste” means municipal waste which is recovered or disposed of in pursuance of arrangements made by a waste disposal authority or a waste collection authority;

F1“disposal” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the Waste Management Licensing (Scotland) Regulations 2011;

“electronic communication” has the same meaning as in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 20003;

F2“European Waste Catalogue” has the same meaning as in regulation 1(4) of the Special Waste Regulations 1996F3,

“landfill allowance account” means the landfill allowance account contained in the landfill allowances register under regulation 16(2);

F4“Landfill Directive” means Council Directive 99/31/EC on the landfill of wasteF5 as last amended by Directive (EU) 2018/850 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilF6,

“operator of a landfill” means the person who has control over the operation of the landfill;

“reconciliation period” means the period of 6 months following the end of a scheme year;

F7“recovery” has the same meaning as in Article 3 of, and Annex II to, Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste and repealing certain Directives, as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 1357/2014 replacing Annex III to Directive 2008/98/EC;

“relevant authority” means–

(a)

the monitoring authority;

(b)

the Scottish Ministers;

“scheme year” means a year beginning with 1st April in any of 2005 to 20197;

“treatment” has the same meaning as in section 22(4) of the Act;

“vintage” means in respect of landfill allowances allocated for–

(a)

different scheme years, the chronological order in which those allowances were allocated;

(b)

for the same scheme year, the order in which those landfill allowances were allocated for that year; and

“waste facility” means a facility for the disposal or recovery of waste other than a landfill;.

(2)

In these Regulations references to waste being sent by a waste disposal authority to a landfill or a waste facility are references to waste being sent to such a landfill or facility in pursuance of arrangements made by the authority.

(3)

In these Regulations a landfill allowance is available to a waste disposal authority for a scheme year if–

(a)

for the purposes of regulation 7 it has–

(i)

been allocated to the authority for that scheme year, and

(ii)

not subsequently been transferred or withdrawn;

(b)

for all other purposes it has been–

(i)

allocated to the authority for that scheme year, or

(ii)

banked, borrowed or transferred to that scheme year,

and not subsequently been banked, borrowed, transferred or withdrawn.