Several standards on bathing and drinking water quality and the methods of measuring it have been adopted. Waste management Progress has been made in producing the Code of Conduct for Good Agricultural Practices, and Quality Standards for the Re-use of treated Effluent. A law ratifying the amendment to the Basle Convention on hazardous waste has been adopted. A household waste programme is being implemented. The aim is to set up a pilot recycling network, to demonstrate the importance of recycling and increase public awareness.
Further progress is needed on hazardous waste, the transport of waste, packaging and batteries.
An inventory is still required of heavily polluted zones, and action plans need to be drawn up. Further transposition is needed of the framework Directive on air quality and the Directives on ozone, non-road mobile machinery and control of volatile organic compounds. A law on the type-approval of motor vehicles has been adopted. Cyprus currently has no capacity to produce unleaded petrol. It is therefore difficult to comply with the Directives on the lead content of petrol and the quality of petrol and diesel fuels.