Waste Catalog Ordinance

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Basic data
Title: Regulation on the
European List of Waste
Short title: Waste Catalog Ordinance
Abbreviation: AVV
Type: Federal Ordinance
Scope: Federal Republic of Germany
Issued on the basis of: §§ 8, 19 f., 41, 48, 50, 57  KrW- / AbfG ,
§ 10 Abs. 10 BImSchG
Legal matter: Environmental law , waste law
References : 2129-27-2-14
Issued on: December 10, 2001
( BGBl. I p. 3379 )
Entry into force on: January 1, 2002
Last change by: Art. 1 Regulation of 30 June 2020
( Federal Law Gazette I, p. 1533 )
Effective date of the
last change: 		July 4, 2020
(Art. 3 of June 30, 2020)
Please note the note on the applicable legal version.

The Waste Catalog Ordinance ( AVV ) is used to designate waste and classify it according to its hazardousness.

history

It was issued on December 10, 2001 to implement the European Waste Catalog (EWC). The European Waste Catalog is a reference catalog with which a common terminology for the European Community was established. Therefore, this catalog should be converted into national law in a legally binding manner. The essential innovation of the EAK is that the classification as "dangerous" is made dependent on the content of dangerous substances for many waste. For this purpose, reference is made to EC law on hazardous substances . With the introduction of the AVV, proof of disposal, facility permits, transport permits, waste management concepts and balances as well as certificates had to be converted to the new waste directory. It ended the distinction between “waste requiring special monitoring” (previously: hazardous waste) and “waste requiring monitoring” to “waste not requiring monitoring”, which had been valid until then under German regulation. However, European law knew neither these terms nor gradations. EU law only has the category “ hazardous waste ”. Stricter rules apply to these substances than to other wastes, which, however, are not harmless in the sense that no precautionary rules apply to control the hazards they pose. The classification as hazardous waste follows EU chemicals / hazardous substances law. Like the EAK, the AVV systematically organized the allocation using so-called mirror entries: the "hazardous waste" defined there is compared with a type of waste that corresponds, with the exception of its hazard characteristics, to the extent that it is practically non-hazardous.

construction

The ordinance has three paragraphs and contains the list of waste in its annex . This waste list comprises a total of 232 types of waste, including 173 types of waste designated as "hazardous".

Section 1 regulates the area of ​​application, namely the “designation of waste” and the “classification of waste according to its hazardousness”.

The designation takes place according to § 2 in connection with the waste directory by assigning a waste to a type of waste, which is identified with a six-digit waste code . The allocation takes place according to chapters (positions 1 and 2), groups (positions 3 and 4) and finally the respective type of waste (positions 5 and 6).

In § 3 is made to hazard criteria and described, such as waste for the purposes of recycling law (KrWG) are classified according to their hazardousness. The waste code with which hazardous waste is to be declared is then provided with an asterisk ("*"). This classification means that this waste is then classified as hazardous within the meaning of the Recycling Management Act and that special rules for monitoring the handling of them apply to them.

In contrast to the methodology of the old keys according to LAGA, the classification is usually based on the origin, i.e. the generation of the waste in chapters 1 to 12 or 17 to 20. Several chapters may apply. If there is no suitable assignment there, one must be checked for one of the chapters 13 to 15. If that doesn't fit either, a key must be checked according to Chapter 16 and the last choice to be made is a key ending in 99, which comes closest.

A type of waste can be checked on the basis of its origin or origin as well as information on material properties (e.g. on safety data sheets ). If the waste designation refers to hazardous substances in or on them, these are to be understood as those that have one or more hazardous properties HP 1 to HP 15 or certain persistent organic pollutants (POP) above the concentration limits according to Annex IV of the EU POP- Regulation included.

List of chapters in the list of waste

  • 01 Waste that arises from exploration, exploitation and extraction as well as from the physical and chemical treatment of mineral resources
  • 02 Waste from agriculture, horticulture, pond management, forestry, hunting and fishing as well as the production and processing of food
  • 03 Waste from woodworking and the manufacture of panels, furniture, cellulose, paper and cardboard
  • 04 Waste from the leather, fur and textile industries
  • 05 Waste from petroleum refining, natural gas cleaning and coal pyrolysis
  • 06 Waste from inorganic chemical processes
  • 07 Waste from organic chemical processes
  • 08 Waste from the manufacture, preparation, distribution and use (MFSU) of coatings (paints, varnishes, enamels), adhesives, sealants and printing inks
  • 09 Waste from the photographic industry
  • 10 wastes from thermal processes
  • 11 Wastes from chemical surface treatment and coating of metals and other materials
  • 12 Wastes from processes of mechanical shaping and physical and mechanical surface treatment of metals and plastics
  • 13 Waste oil and waste from liquid fuels (excluding edible oils and waste oil which are under 05, 12 and 19)
  • 14 Waste from organic solvents, coolants and propellants (except 07 and 08)
  • 15 packaging waste, absorbents, wiping cloths, filter materials and protective clothing (nes)
  • 16 wastes not listed elsewhere in the inventory
  • 17 construction and demolition waste (including excavation from contaminated sites)
  • 18 Waste from human or veterinary care and research (excluding kitchen and restaurant waste that does not come from immediate nursing)
  • 19 Waste from waste treatment plants, public sewage treatment plants and the treatment of water for human consumption and water for industrial purposes
  • 20 Municipal waste (household and similar commercial and industrial waste and waste from facilities), including separately collected fractions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information text on the Waste Catalog Ordinance of the BMUB (PDF) Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety . Archived from the original on August 26, 2014. Retrieved August 25, 2014.
  2. ↑ Hazardous waste yes or no? . Entsorga magazine. Retrieved August 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety : Notes on the application of the Waste Catalog Ordinance (pdf), as of 2002
  4. ↑ Reference to the legal definition of § 3 Abs. 1 KrWG in the introduction to the appendix of the AVV no. 3, sentence 3
  5. ↑ § 48 KrWG. Before 2012, Section 41 of the Recycling and Waste Management Act
  6. ↑ Introduction No. 3 of the Annex to the AVV
  7. ↑ No. 2.2.1 and 2.2.3 of the introduction to the list of waste
  8. ↑ Waste code number directory AVV. In: Disposal.de . Retrieved April 21, 2020 .