The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the law on waste management, chapter I. General provisions article 1. The law is applied in the following terms: 1) — any object or substance from which the holder discards, intends to discard or forced and corresponding to the classification of the waste categories;
2) producer: the natural or legal person whose activities produce waste or waste mixing or other operations resulting in a change in the composition and characteristics of the waste;
3) waste recycling object: the production complex is the machine, which is made of waste recycling;
4) waste management: waste (including waste collection, sorting and mixing to be transported), storage, handling, transport, recycling (including waste incineration) and disposal of waste, the monitoring of these activities, as well as the installation of waste disposal sites and recycling sites maintenance and care after their closure;
5) landfill: a specially built and equipped the waste disposal sites, which are provided for in legislation specific environmental protection measures;
6) landfill, the waste disposal site which does not meet the requirements of the landfill.
2. article. This law aims to establish waste management arrangements to protect human life and health, the environment, as well as personal belongings.
3. article. This law does not apply to: 1) gaseous emissions to the atmosphere;
2) radioactive waste;
3) animal carcasses as well as manure and other naturally occurring substances arising or are used in agriculture;
4) waste water, with the exception of waste in liquid form;
5) explosives;
6) waste resulting from prospecting, mineral extraction, treatment and storage processes.
4. article. The waste is broken down into the following: 1) hazardous waste: waste that has one or more of the properties that make them dangerous to human life or health, the environment, as well as personal belongings, and which comply with the requirements of the waste classification of hazardous waste categories;
2) municipal waste — all other wastes, which are not classified as hazardous waste.
5. article. (1) waste management to be carried out so as not to jeopardize human life and health, as well as personal belongings.
(2) waste management may not adversely affect the environment, including: 1) cause harm to water, air, soil as well as the flora and fauna;
2) cause distressing noises or odors;
3) adversely affect the landscape and specially protected areas;
4 piegruž the environment and pollute). 6. Organizing, planning and conducting waste management must meet the following requirements (in the following order of priority): 1) must prevent waste causes, including developing clean technologies;
2) to reduce the amount of waste (amount) and danger;
3) waste must be recycled to obtain reusable materials and energy;
4) waste should be buried so as not to endanger the life and health of people, the environment, as well as personal belongings;
5) to shut down the dump, in accordance with waste management plans, as well as the closed dumps and landfill conditioning.
Chapter II. State and local government bodies competence in article 7. Cabinet: 1) approve the waste, including hazardous waste, management of the national plan;
2) confirms the new hazardous waste recycling sites and landfill location;
3) determines the classification and characteristics of the waste, which makes the waste hazardous;
4) defines hazardous waste tracking, identification, storage, packaging, labelling and transport records;
5) requires landfill installation, landfill and landfill management and the closure of the landfill and dump sites and conditioning of sliding;
6) determines the order in which the funds are provided, landfill and dump closure;
7) determines the order in which attractive for certain types of waste management to danger or other characteristics of the sliding special requirements also waste oil, polihlorēto biphenyls and terphenyls polihlorēto containing wastes, hazardous substances in batteries and accumulators, waste from the titanium dioxide industrial waste and asbestos waste;
8) determines the waste, including hazardous waste, incineration and incineration plants to the operation of the sliding;
9) waste treatment and disposal.
8. article. The protection of the environment and regional development Ministry or its authorised institution: 1) up a waste, including hazardous waste, management of the national plan;
2) coordinates the national waste management plan;
3) prepare draft laws in the field of waste management;
4) collects information on waste management;
5) coordinates and organizes the management of hazardous waste in accordance with this Act and regulations;
6) organises the processing of hazardous waste landfill sites and installation and management;
7) coordinate the installation of the municipal landfill.
9. article. County and city governments in their administrative territory: 1) organised by the municipal waste management;
2) decide on new household waste recycling sites and the placement of the landfill;
3) issued binding rules governing the municipal waste management, as well as the order in which payments are to be carried out on the waste facility;
4) take decisions concerning the new hazardous waste recycling sites and landfills.
Chapter III. Waste management plans article 10. (1) the waste management plans shall include information on: 1) the waste management situation, describing creation, collected (graded and ungraded), recycled and disposed of the waste types, their composition, quantity, and origin;
2) requirements (in priority order) of compliance with the proposed future development of waste management, indicating the amount of each transaction (the relevant waste types, quantities and origins) excercise and anticipated time;
3) planned activities required for the implementation of activities;
4) planned activities necessary to carry out for objects (newly built, compensated for, existing) and their technical equipment;
5) institutions responsible for the planned waste management activities;
6) the calculated cost and sources of funding for the implementation of the planned activities;

7) improvement of waste management options.
(2) the local Government shall organise municipal waste management plans for their administrative territories and approved it. Multiple authorities can develop a joint municipal waste management plans.
Chapter IV. Waste management article 11 authorisation. (1) the regional environmental Board, informing the City Council (Parish Council), whose administrative territory is going to waste management activities, before the issue of such waste management permit: 1) permits recycling of waste;
2) permission for the disposal of waste;
3) allows for waste collection, storage, and handling.
(2) the regional environmental authority in accordance with the transport of hazardous waste destination shall authorise the transport of hazardous waste, under its existing territories and inform the relevant City Council (Parish Council).
(3) the cabinet shall determine the waste management permit, extension and cancellation procedures, waste management permits sliding requirements and approved waste facility permit form.
Chapter v. The waste producer and holder obligations that carry waste management article 12. Waste collection, accumulation, storage, disposal or recycling is only allowed in dedicated areas.
13. article. (1) municipal waste producer or holder: 1) participating in the municipal household waste management organized under the authorities succeed in binding rules;
2) shall be borne by the municipal waste management costs.
(2) the holder of the waste shall be considered to be a person who meets at least one of the following conditions: 1) is the producer of the waste;
2) is a natural or legal person who is in possession of it.
14. article. (1) hazardous waste producer or holder: 1) separate hazardous waste from other types of waste;
2) storing hazardous waste in such a way that they do not endanger human life and health, the environment, as well as personal belongings;
3) deliver hazardous waste specially outfitted hazardous waste facility or contract for the management of hazardous waste to a person who carries out the management of hazardous waste and is authorised to carry out the management of hazardous waste;
4) covers the cost of hazardous waste management.
(2) the legal persons which hazardous waste is stored for longer than 12 months to get permission for the storage of hazardous waste and make the third paragraph of this article, paragraph 3.
(3) a Person who carries out the management of hazardous waste: 1) receives authorization for hazardous waste collection, storage, handling, processing and disposal;
2) receives permission for the transport of hazardous waste;
3) provide an inventory of hazardous waste, packaging, labelling and identification;
4) organized specially equipped for hazardous waste sites.
15. article. The person who deals with household waste management: 1) receives authorisation prescribed by Cabinet;
2) contracts with those municipalities whose administrative territory of the activities concerned are carried out.
16. article. It is prohibited to mix hazardous waste corresponding to the different categories of hazardous waste, as well as to mix hazardous waste with the household waste.
Article 17. Municipal waste that is not recycled, landfilled municipal waste landfill or landfill, which has allowed the waste to be disposed of.
18. article. Municipal waste landfill design and management organized by the municipal administrative territory of which municipal waste collected for disposal in the landfill, jointly with the local authorities, which is located in the administrative territory of the landfill or landfill is scheduled.
19. article. Landfills, dumps, or processing an object's owner or keeper: 1) before start-up receives permission for the disposal or recycling of waste;
2) managed landfill, dump or recycling sites in accordance with the waste disposal or recycling of the waste permit requirements set out in this Act and regulations;
3) carried out or funded by landfill or dump closing or recycling sites in the winding-up;
4) shall bear the expenses related to the landfill or dump or recycling operation.
20. article. Persons dealing with waste management: 1) managed waste quantity (volume), type, origin, frequency of collection, transport, processing and disposal, recycling and disposal site, once a year, submitting the information gathered concerning the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry or its authorized institution, as well as the relevant authorities and store this material for three years;
2) upon request, providing information about waste management in government institutions, local authorities and the public;
3) by hazardous waste in the previous owner's request, provide a certificate for the waste collection, storage, handling and transport, recycling and disposal of waste.
Chapter VI. The fee for waste management article 21. (1) fees for hazardous waste collection, storage, handling, transportation, and processing, as well as the recycling of municipal waste, the waste producer or holder of the waste agreement with the operator.
(2) the fee for the disposal of hazardous waste is regulated by the Cabinet of Ministers.
22. article. The fee for municipal waste management, except for processing, are regulated in the law "on regulators of public services".
Chapter VII. Cross-border transport of waste in article 23. (1) the export of hazardous waste for recovery or disposal to countries which joined 22 March 1989 the Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal is permitted pursuant to the procedure provided for in the said Convention.
(2) the national territory are prohibited to import any wastes for disposal or long-term storage.
(3) hazardous waste recycling are permitted to import only if the country works hazardous waste treatment facilities that have received permission by the owner of the processing of hazardous waste and the corresponding capacity.

(4) the authorisation of the Cabinet of Ministers established the hazardous and municipal waste for inward processing in the territory of the country shall be issued by the environmental protection and regional development Ministry.
(5) waste export, import and transit procedures regulated by Cabinet regulations governing this article also referred to in the fourth paragraph the authorisation, renewal and cancellation procedures.
Transitional provisions 1. With the entry into force of this Act invalidates the law on municipal waste "(Latvian Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 1998, no. 23) and the law on hazardous waste" (Republic of Latvia Supreme Council and Government Informant, 1993, 14./15.nr.; The Saeima of the Republic of Latvia and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 1997, no. 3).
2. the Cabinet of Ministers regulations for entry into force, but not later than 1 January 2002 has the following Cabinet of Ministers regulations, in so far as they are not inconsistent with this law: 1) the Cabinet of Ministers of 17 September 1996, the Regulation No. 353 "the order in which documents form actions with dangerous waste";
2) Cabinet of 12 august 1997, the provisions of no. 298 "rules on the classification of hazardous waste and hazard criteria";
3) Cabinet February 8, 2000, the provisions of no. 56 "municipal landfill installation, management and closure rules";
4) Cabinet of 9 February 1999, Regulation No 39 of the "municipal waste classification terms";
5) Cabinet of 8 June 1999, the provisions of no. 205 "rules for natural and legal persons, carrying out registration of municipal waste collection, storage, processing, handling, or transportation.
3. Licences issued on the basis of the law on municipal waste "and" hazardous waste "For the requirements in force until their expiry.
4. Article 11 of this law in the first part, the second part of article 14 and the third subparagraph of paragraph 1, article 15, paragraph 1 and article 19, paragraph 1 does not apply to the person who carries out the management of waste, if all equipment that has a waste management, has received permission to act on pollution.
5. This law, article 7 (1) shall enter into force on 1 January 2003.
6. The Cabinet of Ministers to 2002 1 January adopt this law article 7 3, 5 and 9, article 11, and in the third subparagraph of article 15 (1) Cabinet of Ministers referred to in the rules, but until 1 January 2003, article 7 of this law, 4, 6 and 7, the second paragraph of article 21 and article 23 referred to in the fifth subparagraph, the provisions of the Cabinet of Ministers, as well as to approve this law, article 7, paragraph 2 of the object and the location of the landfill.
7. The Cabinet of Ministers until July 1, 2001, to adopt this law article 7 referred to in point 8 of the Cabinet of Ministers regulations concerning the incineration of hazardous waste, but up to 1 January 2003, all the incineration of waste.
8. This law article 14, first paragraph, point 3 shall enter into force on January 1, 2004.
The law shall enter into force on 1 March 2001.
The Parliament adopted the law on 14 December 2000.
 
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