Directive (EU) 2018/850 of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste.

This Directive lays down some amendments to Council Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste. The amendments concern, among other aspects, management of waste from land-based extractive industries and waste that has been separately collected for preparing for re-use and recycling. A new paragraph is inserted in article 5, stipulating that Member States shall endeavour to ensure that as of 2030, all waste suitable for recycling or other recovery, in particular in municipal waste, shall not be accepted in a landfill with the exception of waste for which landfilling delivers the best environmental outcome in accordance with article 4 of Directive 2008/98/EC. Further addenda are inserted: these addenda concern instruments to promote a shift to a more circular economy, determination of the permeability coefficient for landfills and European Union standard for sampling of waste.