Waste Management Framework Law No.16 of 2020.

This Framework Law consisting of 32 articles and IV Annexes aims at organizing the waste management, including the related installations and its division into classes and categories, except for radioactive waste, gaseous emissions to atmosphere, wastewater and the solid biomass residues. It divides waste into the following two categories, non-hazardous and hazardous, which are listed in details in Annex I and Annex II. Article 4 defines the activities included in the waste management, such as waste minimization, reuse, sorting at source, collection, transport, sorting, storage, recovery, recycling, treatment and final disposal, and waste treatment installations closure and after-closed phase. Article 6 lists the measures to be taken to reduce pollution and limit its harmfulness to the environment, public health and sustainable development. Basic principles to be adopted in waste management are set out in article 6, and they are (i) prevention; (ii) precautionary principle; (iii) principle of extended producer responsibility; (iv) polluter pays principle; and (v) proximity principle. Article 9 provides for the establishment of the Supreme Steering Committee for Waste Management with the following tasks (i) approval of the national Waste Management Plan; (ii) adoption of waste management policies, strategies and action plans; (iii) reviewing of progress reports on plans implementation; and (iv) establishment of the concerned committees. At article 10 are set out the competences of the Ministry of the Environment and all the other ministries and local authorities connected and involved in waste management, which mainly concern the activity of environmental control, through the environmental inspectors, and approval relating to waste management plants.
Permits are requested for (i) waste transport; and (ii) waste management installations. Special measures need to be taken by installation that produce more than 10000 tons of non-hazardous waste per year, or any quantity of hazardous waste.
The IV Annexes are entitled as follows (I) Waste categories (non-hazardous); (II) Hazardous waste properties; (III) Operations that may lead to recovery; and (IV) Waste disposal operations. Annex I includes waste from agriculture, seafood cultivation, afforestation, hunting, fishing, food preparation and processing.