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.
