2001/119/EC: Commission Decision of 22 January 2001 amending Decision 2000/532/EC replacing Decision 94/3/EC establishing a list of wastes pursuant to Article 1(a) of Council Directive 75/442/EEC on waste and Council Decision 94/904/EC establishing a list of hazardous waste pursuant to Article 1(4) of Council Directive 91/689/EEC on hazardous waste (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2001) 106)
Date: 2001-01-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: application of EU law, catalogue, dangerous substance, standardisation, waste management

L 47/32

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

16.2.2001

COMMISSION DECISION

of 22 January 2001

amending Decision 2000/532/EC replacing Decision 94/3/EC establishing a list of wastes pursuant
to Article 1(a) of Council Directive 75/442/EEC on waste and Council Decision 94/904/EC
establishing a list of hazardous waste pursuant to Article 1(4) of Council Directive 91/689/EEC on
hazardous waste

(notified under document number C(2001) 106)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2001/119/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

(6)

(7)

The Council did not take a decision on a proposal from
the Commission within the time provided for in Article
18 of Directive 75/442/EEC.

Consequently, it falls to the Commission to adopt the
proposed measures,

Having regard to Council Directive 91/689/EEC of 12
December 1991 on hazardous waste (1), as last amended by
Directive 94/31/EC (2), and in particular Article 1(4) thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

A Community list of hazardous waste was established
by Council Decision 94/904/EC (3) and this Decision has
been replaced by Commission Decision 2000/532/EC (4).

Several Member States have notified end-of-life vehicles,
not drained of liquids or other dangerous components
as waste which they consider to display one of more of
to Directive
the properties
them as
91/689/EEC and have
hazardous waste with the list set up under Article 1(4)
of Directive 91/689/EEC.

in Annex
requested to list

listed

III

the
Article 1(4) of Directive 91/689/EEC requires
Commission to examine
from
Member States with a view to amending the list of
hazardous wastes.

these notifications

The Commission is assisted in this
Committee
75/442/EEC on waste (5).

task by the
established by Article 18 of Directive

The measures laid down in this Decision were not in
accordance with
the
aforementioned Committee and could therefore not be
included in Commission Decision 2000/532/EC.

expressed

opinion

the

by

Article 1

The Annex to Decision 2000/532/EC of 3 May 2000 replacing
Commission Decision 94/3/EC establishing a list of wastes
pursuant to Article 1(a) of Council Directive 75/442/EEC on
waste and Council Decision 94/904/EC establishing a list of
hazardous waste pursuant to Article 1(4) of Council Directive
91/689/EEC on hazardous waste is amended as follows:

Entry (cid:145)16 01 04 discarded vehicles(cid:146) is replaced by:

(cid:145)16 01 04*

end-of-life vehicles(cid:146).

Article 2

This Decision shall apply from 1 January 2002.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 22 January 2001.

For the Commission

Margot WALLSTR(cid:214)M

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 377, 31.12.1991, p. 20.
(2) OJ L 168, 2.7.1994, p. 48.
(3) OJ L 356, 31.12.1994, p. 14.
(4) OJ L 226, 6.9.2000, p. 3.
(5) OJ L 194, 25.7.1975, p. 39.