Decree No. 804 of the Cabinet of Ministers validating the criteria for assessing the degree of risk from the implementation of economic activities related to handling of hazardous waste subject to licensing, and the frequency of implementation of planned state supervision (control) arrangements by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources.

This Decree establishes that the criteria for assessing the degree of risk involved in the implementation of economic activities related to the handling of hazardous waste subject to licensing are included in Section A of the Yellow List of Waste approved by the Decree No. 1120 of the Cabinet of Ministers validating the Regulation on control of transboundary movement of hazardous waste and utilization/disposal thereof and Yellow and Green Lists of waste shall be as follows: (a) the type of hazardous waste management operations and the number of hazardous waste types for which such operations are performed; and (b) the presence of violations of the requirements of licensing conditions for the performance of economic activities related to the management of hazardous waste. Business entities classified as high risk shall be as follows: (a) performing operations related to the utilization and/or disposal of nine or more types of hazardous waste; and (b) during the last two years preceding the planned, but not less than, as a result of the last two state inspection (control), violated the requirements of licensing conditions for the performance of economic activities related to the handling of hazardous waste. Business entities classified as medium risk shall be as follows: (a) performing operations related to utilization and/or disposal of eight or fewer types of hazardous waste; (b) performing hazardous waste management operations (except for utilization and/or disposal of hazardous waste) for 15 and more types of hazardous waste; and (c) during the last three years preceding the planned, but not less than, according to the results of the last two state inspections (control), violated the requirements of licensing conditions for the performance of economic activity related to the handling of hazardous waste. Business entities classified as low degree of risk shall be as follows: (a) performing hazardous waste management operations (except for utilization and/or disposal of hazardous wastes) in relation to 14 and less types of hazardous waste; (b) during the last five years preceding the planned one, but not less than, according to the results of the last two state inspections (control), did not violate the requirements of licensing conditions for the performance of economic activity related to the handling of hazardous waste; and (c) are not classified as high and medium risk business entities. Planned state inspections (control) of business entities performing operations with hazardous waste shall be conducted by the Ministry of Environmental Protection with the following periodicity: (a) high risk business entities – no more than once every two years; (b) medium risk business entities – no more than once every three years; and (c) low risk business entities – no more than once every five years.