Decree-Law No. 26/2020 approving the Legal Regime for Urban Waste Management Services.

This Decree-Law approves the Legal Regime for Urban Waste Management Services. This Legal Regime, consisting of 66 articles divided into seven Chapters, regulates the stakeholders' and regulatory entities, the direct management model, the provision of services through a company in the local business sector, as well as the concessionary management model, relations with users, as well as the sanctioning regime. The management of urban waste is done through municipal and inter-municipal systems. This law applies to municipal and inter-municipal urban waste management systems. The expressions used in this legislation have the meaning defined in Decree-Law No. 56/2015 of 17 October. The exploitation and management of municipal services for the management of urban waste is an attribution of the municipalities and can be carried out by them alone or through associations of municipalities, through inter-municipal systems, under the terms of the present diploma, as well as through a company of the local business sector. The operation and management of municipal waste management services can be attributed, under a concession regime, to a public or private entity of a business nature.