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L.N. 453 of 2021
ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT
(CAP. 549)
Waste Management (Landfill)
(Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2021
IN EXERCISE of the powers conf erred by articles 54 and 55 of
the Environment Protection Act, t he Minister for the Environmen t,
Climate Change and Planning, afte r consultation with the Enviro nment
and Resources Authority, has made the following regulations:-
Citation.
S.L. 549. 29. 1. The title of these regulati ons is the Waste Management
(Landfill) (Amendment No. 2) Re gulations, 2021 and these regula tions
shall be read and construed as one with the Waste Management
(Landfill) Regulations, hereinaf ter referred to as "the princip al
regulations".
Amends 
regulation 5 of 
the principal regulations.2. Regulation 5 of the principal r egulations shall be amended
as follows: 
(a) sub-regulation (4) thereof shall be substituted by the
following new sub-regulation: 
(b) immediately after sub-regulation (4) thereof there
shall be added the follo wing new sub-regulations:
 "(5) Within three (3) months of receipt of the
implementation plan submitted pursuant to paragraph (b) of"(4) By 2030, the Minister may consider
postponing the deadline for atta ining the targ et referred to
in sub-regulation (3) by up to f ive (5) years provided that:
(a) Malta has landfille d more than sixty per
cent (60%) of its municipa l waste generated in 2013
as reported under the Joint Questionnaire of the
OECD and Eurostat; and
S.L. 549. 63.(b) at the latest twenty-four (24) months
before the deadline laid down in sub-regulation (3),
the Minister notifies the Commission of its intentionto postpone the deadline and submits an
implementation plan in accordance with Schedule 4.
The Minister may combine that plan with animplementation plan submitted pursuant to the
Waste Regulations."; and
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sub-regulation (4), the Com mission may request Malta to
revise the plan if the Commi ssion considers that the plan
does not comply with the requirements of Schedule 4.
Malta shall submit a revised p lan within three (3) months of
receipt of the Commission’s request.
(6) In the event of postponing the deadline in
accordance with sub-regulation (4), the Minister, in
consultation with the authority and the agency, shall take
the necessary measures to reduce by 2035 the amount of
municipal waste landfilled to twenty-five per cent (25%) or
less of the total amount of m unicipal waste generated (by
weight).".
Amends 
regulation 17A 
of the principal regulations.3. In regulation 17A of the principal regulations, the words
"Annex IVa to Directive 2008/98/EC" shall be substituted by the
words "Schedule 12 of the Waste Regulations". 
Adds new 
Schedule to the 
principal regulations.4. Immediately after Schedule 3 to the principal regulations
there shall be added the  following new Schedule:
"SCHEDULE 4
(Regulation 5)
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
The implementation plan to be submitted pursuant to sub-
regulation (4) of reg ulation 5 of shall con tain the following:
1. Assessment of the past, cur rent and projected rates of
recycling, landfilling and other treatment of municipal waste a nd the
streams of which it is composed.
2. Assessment of the implementation of waste management
plans and waste prevention pr ogrammes in place pursuant to
regulations 28 and 29 of the Waste Regulations.
3. Reasons for Malta considers that it might not be able to
attain the relevant target laid down in sub-regulation (3) of regulation
5 within the deadline set therein and an assessment of the timeextension necessary t o meet that target.
4. Measures necessary to attain  the targets set out in sub-
regulation (6) of regulation 5 of  these regulations applicable to Malta
during the time extension, incl uding appropriate economic instr uments
and other measures to provide inc entives for the application of  t h e
waste hierarchy as set out in regulation 4A and Schedule 12 of the
Waste Regulations.
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5. A timetable for the impl ementation of the measures
identified in item 4, determination of the body competent for t heir
implementation and an assessmen t of their individual contributi on to
attaining the targets applicable  in the event of a time extension.
6. Information on funding for waste management in line with
the polluter-pays principle.
7. Measures to improve data qua lity, as appropriate, with a
view to better planning and monitoring performance in waste
management.". 
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