Amendments to Regulation No 62 of 2019 of the Minister for the Environment and the Protection of the Land and Sea laying down standards governing the end of waste status of personal absorbent products (PAP), pursuant to Article 184(b),

TRIS notification 2023/0742/IT — draft technical regulation notified under Directive (EU) 2015/1535 (not yet adopted)

Amendments to Regulation No 62 of 2019 of the Minister for the Environment and the Protection of the Land and Sea laying down standards governing the end of waste status of personal absorbent products (PAP), pursuant to Article 184(b),

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1. MSG 001 IND 2023 0742 IT EN 20-12-2023 IT NOTIF
2. Italy
4. 2023/0742/IT - S20E - Waste
5. Amendments to Regulation No 62 of 2019 of the Minister for the Environment and the Protection of the Land and Sea laying down standards governing the end of waste status of personal absorbent products (PAP), pursuant to Article 184(b),
6. Recovery of personal absorbent products (PAP) from which the following elements are obtained: heterogeneous polyolefin-based plastics, super-absorbent polymer (SAP) and cellulose
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8. This regulation introduces certain amendments and additions to Decree No 62 in force of the Minister for the Environment and the Protection of the Land and Sea of 15 May 2019, namely the “Regulation laying down standards governing the end of waste status of personal absorbent products (PAP), pursuant to article 184(b), paragraph 2, of Legislative Decree No 152 of 3 April 2006.”
Three years after the entry into force of that decree, it emerged, also at the request of economic operators, that some of the provisions in force should be amended in order to clarify certain interpretative doubts arising from the current legal framework and to overcome the critical issues that stood out during the application phase, thus allowing companies in the sector to increase the amount of waste recovered.
The amendments made by this regulation to Decree No 62 of 2019 therefore fall within the framework of measures aimed to achieve, in accordance with directive 2008/98/EC, circularity-based production and consumption patterns and the reduction of quantities of waste sent to landfill.
9. End of Waste (EoW) is a concrete measure to achieve, as agreed by all EU states, a recycling and recovery society, which becomes reality when materials resulting from a high quality recycling or recovery process can be re-introduced to the market and are able to compete with virgin raw materials, allowing a reduction in the consumption of natural resources and raw materials.
Waste from PAP becomes a resource and helps decrease the use of raw materials and the quantity of waste to be disposed of, favouring the recovery of materials.
10. References to basic texts:
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TBT aspects: No
SPS aspects: No