Document ID: 32001D0118

Commission Decision
of 16 January 2001
amending Decision 2000/532/EC as regards the list of wastes
(notified under document number C(2001) 108)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2001/118/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1975 on waste(1), as last amended by Commission Decision 96/350/EC(2) and in particular Article 1(a) thereof,
Having regard to Council Directive 91/689/EEC of 12 December 1991 on hazardous waste(3), as amended by Directive 94/31/EC(4) and in particular Article 1(4), second indent, thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Commission Decision 2000/532/EC of 3 May 2000 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(5) should be amended in the light of the notifications from Member States pursuant to Article 1(4), second indent, of Directive 91/689/EEC.
(2) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee established by Article 18 of Directive 75/442/EEC,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
Decision 2000/532/EC is amended as follows:
1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:
"Article 2
Wastes classified as hazardous are considered to display one or more of the properties listed in Annex III to Directive 91/689/EEC and, as regards H3 to H8, H10(6) and H11 of the said Annex, one or more of the following characteristics:
- flash point &lt;= 55 °C,
- one or more substances classified(7) as very toxic at a total concentration &gt;= 0,1 %,
- one or more substances classified as toxic at a total concentration &gt;= 3 %,
- one or more substances classified as harmful at a total concentration &gt;= 25 %,
- one or more corrosive substances classified as R35 at a total concentration &gt;= 1 %,
- one or more corrosive substances classified as R34 at a total concentration &gt;= 5 %,
- one or more irritant substances classified as R41 at a total concentration &gt;= 10 %,
- one or more irritant substances classified as R36, R37, R38 at a total concentration &gt;= 20 %,
- one substance known to be carcinogenic of category 1 or 2 at a concentration &gt;= 0,1 %,
- one substance known to be carcinogenic of category 3 at a concentration &gt;= 1 %
- one substance toxic for reproduction of category 1 or 2 classified as R60, R61 at a concentration &gt;= 0,5 %,
- one substance toxic for reproduction of category 3 classified as R62, R63 at a concentration &gt;= 5 %,
- one mutagenic substance of category 1 or 2 classified as R46 at a concentration &gt;= 0,1 %,
- one mutagenic substance of category 3 classified as R40 at a concentration &gt;= 1 %."
2. The Annex is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.
Article 2
This Decision shall apply from 1 January 2002.
Article 3
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 16 January 2001.

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