The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the law on waste management in the waste management Act (Latvian journal 2010, 183, 205. no; in 2012, 2013, 59 no; 194, 232. no; by 2014, 66 no) follows: 1. Article 1: Add to the article with the following point 4.1: "41) biological waste-biodegradable garden and park waste from households, restaurants, caterers and retail space food and kitchen waste and other similar food industry;"; to supplement the article with a 12.1 point as follows: "121) — separate waste sorting waste separation from the common manual waste stream waste site, manual or automated separation of the total waste stream waste collection and sorting as well as waste recovery and waste disposal facilities." 2. Make the first part of article 5 paragraph 5 by the following: "5) recycling;". 3. To make article 7, first paragraph (1) of the following: "1) organizes the national waste management plan, as well as coordinating its implementation;". 4. in article 8: make the first parts 1, 2 and 3 as follows: "1) organizes all municipal waste, including household hazardous waste generated in the management in its administrative territory pursuant to local binding rules for municipal waste management, whilst respecting the national waste management plan and regional plans; 2) decide on new household waste collection, distributed collection, sorting, preparation for recycling and recovery or disposal facilities and infrastructure, as well as the placement of a landfill in their administrative territory according to the waste management national plan and regional plans; 3) makes binding provisions on municipal waste management in its administrative territory, establishing the Division of the territory of the municipal waste management areas, requirements for the collection of waste, including the minimum municipal waste collection frequency, transport, handling and storage, the order in which payments to be carried out on the waste management, as well as municipalities authorized bodies and officials, which is controlled by the binding provisions and are entitled to draw up a Protocol on administrative violation; " to supplement the first part of paragraph 7 as follows: "7) monitors and controls the municipal landfill closure, conditioning, monitoring and maintenance of the landfill closed for contributions and costs after the closure of the landfill." to supplement the article with the fourth paragraph as follows: "(4) to develop a regional plan of waste management and the coordination of its implementation, to gather information about municipal waste stream in the area of waste management, as well as to ensure more effective implementation, a task which this law for municipal domestic waste management, local authorities can create common institutions, as well as delegate administration tasks for individuals and other public person pursuant to the law" On local governments "and administrative law provisions of equipment." 5. in article 9: to make the first part as follows: "(1) the management of waste is carried out in accordance with the national plan of waste management. In respect of waste management waste management regional plans and local plans, if such are confirmed. "; to turn off the second paragraph, the words "and regional waste management plans". 6. Express article 10, second subparagraph by the following: "(2) the waste management in municipalities within the region can develop regional waste management plan. The regional waste management plan shall enter into force after being approved by all the waste management authorities in the region. Decisions on waste management regional plan approval submitted to the respective national environment service regional environmental management. " 7. in article 12: replace the first paragraph, the words "and 1.1" rekultivēt "or" rekultivēt closed; turn off 1.1 part name "rekultivēt"; turn off the second part of paragraph 4 and 5; to make the second part of paragraph 6 by the following: ' 6) the order in which to be released and closed or cancelled permission rekultivēt atrakšan to the waste dump and waste for the authorisation regraded sliding requirements, requirements for repeated conditioning to dump its waste in atrakšan and regraded (including claims repeatedly rekultivēt the monitoring and maintenance of the dump after conditioning). "; make the third paragraph as follows: "(3) for waste collection, transport, handling, sorting or storage permits and closed or rekultivēt waste dumps and waste atrakšan regraded authorisation referred to in the first subparagraph the waste authorities paid the State fee. Fees and payment arrangements determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. " 8. Turn off 12.1 article, the words "as well as the order in which the waste and the waste management trader intermediaries provide information the national environmental service of operations carried out with the waste, and the content of this information." 9. Supplement article 16 with the fourth paragraph as follows: "(4) municipal waste-the original creator of this article, possessor or referred to in the second subparagraph, the person shall sign a contract with the municipal waste disposal service for domestic waste collection and transport, no later than two months from the date on which the municipality informed about household waste disposal service, with which it has an agreement on municipal waste collection, transport, handling and storage in the municipal waste management area." 10. in article 18: to supplement the first part with the words "for the bid selection criterion for determining the most economically advantageous tender"; replace the second paragraph, the words "regional plan" with the words "national plans and regional plan"; Add to the second part of the sentence as follows: "Cabinet of Ministers lays down minimum requirements, which include work on behalf of local authorities." to make the seventh subparagraph by the following: "(7) in the sixth paragraph of this article, this agreement and the waste authorities closed for a period of not less than three years and not more than seven years. Legislation on public and private partnership in accordance with the procedure laid down in the contract may be concluded for a period of not more than 20 years. "; turn off the tenth; to supplement the article with the eleventh subparagraph by the following: "(11) the cabinet shall determine the local waste authorities and relevant provisions of the Treaty, as well as the producer of the waste and the waste authorities the essential provisions of the Treaty." 11. Replace article 19, second paragraph, the words "may take" with the word "out". 12. Express the first paragraph of article 22 paragraph 3 by the following: "3) take measures and shall bear the expenses related to the landfill or dump and conditioning, closed landfill monitoring and maintenance (a closed landfill site maintenance according to the requirements of fire protection and storage of the landfill in rekultivēt the surface maintenance of insulating coverage according to the regulations on the management of the landfill requirements), as well as with the recovery or disposal of waste equipment termination." 13. Express article 23, first subparagraph as follows: "(1) Waste managers who perform garbage collection or transport, preparation of waste recovery or disposal, recovery or disposal of waste, or rekultivēt of the closed waste dumps and waste atrakšan shut regraded, waste traders and brokers of waste management, hazardous waste producer, except household hazardous waste producer: 1) managed or waste quantity (volume), type, origin, frequency of collection and shipping records , the type of recovery or disposal and place the records in chronological order and store this information for not less than three years; 2 laws and regulations on environment) statistics provided within the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry authorized institution for information about closed or rekultivēt waste dump of the resulting atrakšan waste (amount) and for their storage, handling and preparation for transport, recovery or disposal, recovery or disposal of waste and store this information for not less than three years; 3) at the request of the local government or by the contract concluded by the local government and municipal authorities, providing information on local authority waste management, including those parts of the information referred to in paragraph 1 and the information on the administrative territory of the quantity of municipal waste collected (volumes), storage, handling and transportation, as well as preparation for recovery or disposal and recovery or disposal; 4) upon request, provide other State bodies information about waste management, including those parts of the information referred to in paragraph 1 and other environmental information. " 14. Article 37: turn off the first part; to make the third part in this Editorial: "(3) organic waste composting of municipal waste landfill or composting of biological waste in specially equipped places or otherwise processed, if authorized to carry out relevant activities." 15. Article 39: make the first part of the first sentence by the following: "management of municipal waste (excluding municipal waste recovery) the procedures for the determination of the waste producer or holder confirms the municipality with binding provisions."; make the second paragraph as follows: "(2) waste authorities in accordance with article 18 of this law has chosen the municipality provides municipal waste collection, transport, handling, sorting, storage, separate waste collection, sorting and handling infrastructure maintenance on the same charge of all municipal waste producers given the waste management area according to this law, in accordance with the procedure laid down in the contract entered into with the municipality." 16. in article 41: make the first part of paragraph 6 by the following: "6) costs related to the closed landfill monitoring and maintaining at least a 30-year period after the closure of the landfill;"; to supplement the first part of paragraph 7 as follows: "7) costs associated with the disposal of biodegradable waste quantity reduction including biodegradable waste recovery."; to make this version 1.2 part: "(12) Cabinet of Ministers provides for the procedure for the determination of landfill closure and conditioning costs, closed landfill monitoring and maintenance costs, as well as the order in which the municipality is located in the administrative territory of the municipal landfill, monitors and controls the landfill closure account at the Treasury should include the contributions of the funds and the closure of the landfill costs after."; replace the second paragraph, the word "monitoring" with the words "monitoring and maintaining" and the word "the" with the word "landfill site". 17. Article 42: Supplement to the fourth sentence as follows: "Cabinet of Ministers determines the order in which the State Department of the environment shall take a decision on the permit to import waste for recovery and the decision on the prohibition of the importation of waste." to make a fifth by the following: "(5) the operator of waste, which landed in the territory of Latvia or exported from the territory of Latvia in the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006, Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 on shipments of waste (hereinafter Regulation No 1013/2006) or in article 3 of the Basel Convention the waste referred to in the third paragraph of this article as intended, the producer of the waste that is exported from the territory of Latvia even waste disposal, recycling or recovery until 1 March of the current year must submit a report on waste for the preceding calendar year in accordance with the provisions on the protection of the environment in national statistical report forms ". supplemented with the sentence following part 8.2: "national environmental service has the right to decide that electrical and electronic equipment, the consignment is waste electrical and electronic equipment, where there is a reasonable suspicion that you are sending waste electrical and electronic equipment". Add to article 8.3 part as follows: "(83) national environmental service decisions relating to electrical and electronic equipment shipments may challenge the environmental monitoring national Office and appeal to the Court of Justice of the administrative procedure law. Appeal shall not suspend the decision. " 18. transitional provisions: to turn off the number and in paragraph 3, the words "article 18, tenth part"; turn off paragraph 10 subparagraph 2; 22. paragraph 2 off in numbers and the words "article 12 paragraph 6 of part two," and the numbers and the words ' article 41 1.2 and the third part "; Supplement 22 to the point 3 and 4 by the following: "3) until 2015 December 1 issue this law, article 12, paragraph 6, second subparagraph, and article 41 1.2 and third part these provisions; 4) until 2016 1 March does this law article 18 in the second and eleventh, and the fourth paragraph of article 42 of these rules. "; transitional provisions be supplemented with 25, 26 and 27 the following: "agreement of 25 up to the end of the statutory period, but not longer than until 1 June 2017 is in force the agreement on his place of business in the waste collection, transport, handling and storage, municipal waste producer has entered into and which informed the local authorities, on the basis of the waste management Act, article 18 of the tenth that was in force until 31 May 2015. 26. Article 12 of this law the new third paragraph shall enter into force simultaneously with the amendments to the law "About taxes and duties". 27. Amendment of article 23 of this law in the first part, relating to the provision of information and the State bodies and local authorities and the amendments to this law, the first paragraph of article 41 concerning the costs associated with maintaining a closed landfill, and costs associated with the disposal of biodegradable waste, reducing the amount of tariff for waste include landfilling shall enter into force on January 1, 2016. " The law shall enter into force on 1 June 2015. The Parliament adopted the law 2015 April 30. The President a. Smith in 2015 on May 20.