G/TBT/N/ESP/47  
17 June 2022 
(22-4729) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : SPAIN 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Ministerio  para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico  (Ministry for Ecological 
Transition and Demographic Challenge)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle  comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
Subdirección General de Economía Circular (General Subdirectorate for the Circular 
Economy)  
Dirección General de Calidad y Evaluación Ambiental  (General Directorate for 
Enviro nmental Quality and Assessment)  
Tel.: 91 597 6354  
buzon -sgr@miteco.es  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], 3.2 [ ], 7.2 [ ], 
other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : PLASTIC 
PACKAGING.  
Specific tariff codes are not provided as there are several possibilities depending on the 
characteristics and composition of the packaging.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Orden Ministerial por la que se establecen los criterios para determinar cuándo los 
residuos plásticos sometidos a tratamientos m ecánicos y destinados a la fabricación de 
productos plásticos dejan de ser residuo con arreglo a la Ley 7/2022, de 8 de abril, de 
residuos y suelos contaminados para una economía circular  (Draft Ministerial Order 
establishing the criteria for determining w hen plastic waste subject to mechanical 
treatment ceases to be waste pursuant to Law No. 7/2022, of 8 April , on waste and 
contaminated soil for a circular economy) (22 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Ministerial Order esta blishes the end -of-waste 
criteria for certain plastic waste that is treated mechanically . Meeting those criteria means 
this plastic waste is treated as a product and not as waste.  
The technical criteria are based on the document, published in 2014, prepared by the 
Joint Research Centre at the request of the European Commission.  
The regulation defines which plastic waste is accepted, the necessary mechanical 
treatments, the quality criteria to be met by the resulting material following the recovery G/TBT/N/ESP/47  
- 2 - 
  operation and the procedure for verifying compliance with the criteria through 
management systems.  
This regulation covers mechanical treatments only and not others, such as chemical 
treatments, that can be carried out on the same waste flows.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The purpose of the draft order is to establish the conditions under which 
certain, suitably -treated waste can cease to be considered waste.  
It will provide direct environmen tal benefits to the extent that it encourages the separate 
collection of this type of waste in greater volumes, the implementation of better 
treatments and better quality control of the recovered raw materials ; environmental 
protection  
8. Relevant documen ts: 
Law No. 7/2022, of 8 April , on waste and contaminated soil for a circular economy  
9. Proposed date of adoption : First quarter of 2023  
Proposed date of entry into force : First half of 2023  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
The Spanish text of the draft Ministerial Order is attached herewith  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/ESP/22_4171_00_s.pdf