End of Waste Certification - UNI 333/2011 - UNI 1179/2012 - UNI 715/2013


On December 12, 2008, Directive 2008/98 / EC on "end of waste" came into force, tackling for the first time at EU level the end of waste qualification. Art. 6(1) establishes four general requirements that a waste must fulfil at the end of the recovery operation in order to no longer be considered as such.

In particular, the product obtained from a waste must:

  • offer common use for certain specific purposes
  • have a market or a demand
  • meet the technical requirements for the specific purposes for which it is intended and comply with existing legislation and standards applicable to products
  • does not result in its use with overall negative impacts on the environment or human health.

These general criteria obviously needed further specification to become operational. To this end, Article 6 itself provided for the Commission to develop more specific EU criteria for the end-of-waste of different types of materials.

The following EU regulations were created:

  • 333/2011 relating to iron, steel and aluminum scrap
  • 1179/2012 relating to glass cullet
  • 715/2013 relating to copper scrap.

The regulations mentioned before requiring a series of specific activities / controls concerning:

  • Quality of the scrap obtained from the recovery operation
  • Waste used as material for the recovery operation
  • Treatment processes and techniques
  • Preparation of a declaration of conformity
  • Application of a quality management system.

CSI is the body responsible for inspections at recovery plants for the purpose of certifying their compliance with end of waste production.

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