Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Amendment Rules, 2024.

These Rules amend the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016 (principal Rules). In Rule 3 of the principal Rules, clause 22A is added after clause 22, which defines deposition centers as the deposition centre specified in the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 for collection of domestic hazardous wastes. Rule 6 is amended to add sub-rules (1B) and (1C) which require the deposition centres to obtain authorization from the State Pollution Control Board or the Pollution Control Committee and provide domestic hazardous waste to the actual user or operator of the disposal facility. In Rule 12, sub-rule (6B) is substituted which states that import of post-industrial or pre-consumer polyethylene wastes shall be permitted with a requirement to export at least thirty five percent of the total annual turnover. In Rule 29 of the principal Act, after sub-rule (6), sub-rules (7), (8) and (9) are added in respect of extended producer responsibility certificates. Sub-rule (5) is added after sub-rule (4) in Rule 30, allowing for relaxation of timelines for filing of returns. Schedules III, VI and IX and Form 2 are also amended.