Waste Management Act.

This Act defines the environmentally sound management of waste as a combination of rights, obligations, decisions, acts and activities related to their generation and treatment, based upon certain information and various forms of control. The Act sets out the requirements towards the products, which in their production process or after the final use generate hazardous or ordinary wastes.
The Act is divided into 6 Chapters, Supplementary Provisions, and Transitional and Final Provisions and 1 Annex. Chapter 1 deals with the general provisions. Chapter 2 deals with the obligations of persons performing activities with wastes. Chapter 3 sets out requirements to the treatment and transportation of wastes. Chapter 4 sets the general requirements related to the management of waste-related operations and is divided into 2 secs. as follows: (1) information and public registers; (2) waste management programmes and their financing. Chapter 5 deals with the authorization and control on waste-related operations. It adresses the following: waste-related operation permits, i.e. of treatment and transportation of all kinds of wastes; registration documents for waste-related operations; licences for trade activities related to ferrous and non-ferrous metals waste; recovery scheme operator permits; deductions for the fianl disposal of waste through deposit into or onto land; cross-border shipments of waste; waste management control procedures. Chapter 6 deals with coercive administrative measures and administrative penalty provisions. The remaining part of the Act contains Supplementary, Transitional and Final Provisions.