Law amending and supplementing the Law on waste management.

This Law amends several provisions part of the Law on waste management (originally published in the Official Gazette of the Republika Srpska 111/2013, and already amended in Gazettes 106/2015 and 16/2018). Changes are regarding the contents of article 5, 6, 16, 26, 30, 37, 42 47, 52, 56, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 70, 71, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 84, 89, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 99, 100, 101 and 103.
Also some parts of the Annex (3) are here replaced.
In article 5 general exception from the application of this Law are modified as follows: “The provisions of this Law do not apply to: a) radioactive waste; b) gases emitted into the atmosphere; c) wastewater, except liquid waste; g) sludge from sewage systems and contents of septic tanks, except sludge from wastewater treatment plants; d) by-products of animal origin including carcasses of animal origin and components of animal body which are not intended or safe for human and animal consumption, as well as by-products deriving from animal slaughter process from breeding facilities, keeping, slaughtering animals, as well as from production facilities, storage and marketing of products of animal origin, manure from farms and other natural, non-hazardous substances used in agriculture; f) mining waste generated by exploration, excavation, processing and storage of mineral raw materials, as well as tailings from mines and quarries; e) waste generated during prospecting, excavation, transportation and final processing or destruction of mines and other unexploded ordnance; h) substances intended for animal feed and which do not contain by-products of animal origin; i) straw and other natural non-hazardous agricultural or forest material used in livestock, forestry or energy production by processes or methods that do not have a harmful effect on the environment and do not endanger human health; i) soil, or land on site, including unexcavated contaminated land and facilities permanently connected to the land; j) unpolluted land and other materials from nature, excavated during construction activities, if that material used for construction purposes in its original form on the construction site from which it was excavated; (k) carcases of dead animals not slaughtered, including animals killed for the extermination of epizootic diseases; l) sediments that move within the surface water for the purpose of managing water and watercourses or preventing floods, as well as mitigating the consequences of floods, drought or soil regeneration, if these are classified as proven non-hazardous sediments.”