The Regulation stipulates that before a particular waste, for which there are no available criteria for end-of-waste status, undergoes a recovery operation and before the intended product of the waste recovery is put on the market, the economic operator intending to market the product shall seek the advisory opinion of the Environment Agency of Iceland as to whether the waste will cease to be waste once it has undergone the recovery operation. According to the Regulation an economic operator intending to recover waste to make a product intended to be put on the market, is responsible for ensuring that its operations are at all times in compliance with the laws and regulations applying to the operations and shall take account of the advisory opinion on the recovery of waste.
Regulation’s objective
The objective of this Regulation is to promote the recovery of waste so that it ceases to be considered waste and in a manner that does not endanger public and animal health or damage the environment. There is a need in Iceland to provide a channel for various businessess which are interested in the recovery of waste in order for them to be sure that their products from waste are not considered to be waste after the recovery operation (given that an end-of-waste criteria does not exist for the waste in question).