Law No. 187/98-BP on waste.

The present Law establishes legal, organizational and economic principles of activity related to prevention of the formation or reduction of the amount of waste, its collection, transport, storage, disposal, utilization and removal, rendering harmless and burial, and prevention of negative impact of waste on natural environment and public health on the territory of Ukraine. This Law regulates the relations related to the formation, collection and procurement, sorting, transportation, storage, treatment (processing), utilization, disposal, disposal and disposal of waste generated in Ukraine, transported through its territory, exported from, also with transportation, treatment and disposal of waste imported into Ukraine as secondary raw materials. It shall not be applicable to management of animal by-products not intended for human consumption. National Waste Classifier is a systematic list of waste codes and names intended for use in national statistics for providing diverse and reliable information on the generation, accumulation, treatment (recycling), disposal and disposal of waste. Solid waste - residues of substances, materials, objects, products, goods, products that cannot be used for their intended purpose. Liquid waste - household waste generated in the home in the absence of centralized water supply and sewerage and stored in cesspools. The main objectives of waste legislation shall be as follows: (a) defining the basic principles of public policy in the field of waste management; (b) legal regulation of relations in the field of waste management; (c) defining the basic conditions, requirements and rules for environmentally sound waste management, as well as a system of measures related to the organizational and economic promotion of resource conservation; and (d) ensuring the minimum generation of waste, expanding its use in economic activities, preventing the harmful effects of waste on the environment and human health. The main directions of state policy for the implementation of waste management principles shall be as follows: (a) ensuring the complete collection and timely disposal of waste, and compliance with environmental safety rules when handling them; (b) minimization of waste generation and reduction hazardousness thereof; (c) ensuring the integrated use of raw materials; (d) promoting the maximum possible disposal of waste through direct re-use or alternative use of resource-valuable waste; (e) ensuring safe disposal of non-recyclable waste through the development of appropriate technologies, environmentally sound methods and means of waste management; (f) organization of control over the places or objects of waste disposal in order to prevent the harmful impact on the environment and human health; (g) carrying out a complex of scientific and technical and marketing researches for the identification and determination of the resource value of waste for the purpose of their efficient use; (h) promoting the creation of waste management facilities; (i) providing social protection for employees involved in waste management; (j) compulsory accounting of waste on the basis of its classification and certification; (k) creating the conditions for the implementation of separate collection of household waste by introducing socio-economic mechanisms aimed at encouraging the producers of this waste to separate it for collection; and (l) facilitating the attraction of non-state investments and other extrabudgetary sources of financing in the field of waste management. The document consists of 10 Sections that contain 45 articles. Section 1 (arts. 1-7) lays down general provisions. Section 2 (arts. 8-12) regards right of ownership of waste. Section 3 (arts. 13-17) regards subjects of waste management, establishes their rights and duties. Section 4 (arts. 18-25) establishes competence of the organs of state executive power and local self-government in the sphere of waste management. Section 5 (arts. 26-30) regards state registration, monitoring and access to information regarding waste management. Section 6 (arts. 31-37) establishes conditions and requirements as regards prevention or reduction of the formation of waste and ecological safety of waste management. Section 7 (arts. 38-41) regards economic ensuring of conditions for utilization of waste and reduction of the formation thereof. Section 8 (arts. 42-44) regards offences in the sphere of waste management and establishes liability in the aforesaid sphere. Section 9 (art. 45) regards international cooperation in the sphere of waste management. Section 10 lays down final provisions. Customs authorities carry out customs formalities necessary for the passage through the customs border of Ukraine, release into the relevant customs regime of hazardous waste, on the basis of written consent (notification) for transboundary movement of hazardous waste obtained from the central executive body implementing state policy in environmental protection natural environment, using the "single window" mechanism in accordance with the Customs Code of Ukraine.