Consultations & References

Available for loan from the IGI office: 

Financing global climate change mitigation, published by Economic Commission for Europe. Geologues, (Revue officielle de l'Union Francaise des Geologues) No. 166, a special issue dedicated to "Le stockage geologique du CO2 dans le contexte energetique du XXI siecle"

Extractive Waste Directive:

The EU Directive on the Management of Waste from the Extractive Industries (Directive 2006/21/EC) - or more commonly known as the Mining Waste Directive - came into force on 1 May 2006.  Member States were required to transpose it into national law by 1 May 2008.  This directive seeks to address a lacuna in EU law, where waste from the extractive industry was up to this point largely excluded from the main body of environmental legislation dealing with waste management and industrial control (c.f. the Waste Framework Directive, and the IPPC Directive).   This new Directive requires, inter alia, the establishment of planning, approval, inspection, monitoring, financing, closure and aftercare provisions for extractive waste facilities.   Activities 'within scope' would broadly include peat extraction, as well as minerals extraction at mines, pits and quarries ('minerals' are defined widely to include a naturally occurring deposit in the earth's crust of an organic and inorganic substance).  There are also obligations in relation to accident management, historical mine waste facilities and worked out mines.   Certain reliefs are given for water extraction, as well as waste derived from off-shore mineral extraction, and prospecting wastes.  The Directive and the national implementing regulations are at the links below, as are Government Circulars that assist interpretation of the implementing Regulations.  

 

Circular WP 01 10 - Management of Waste from the Extractive Industries Regulations

Circular WP 19.10 - Management of Waste from the Extractive Industries Regulations

EU Extractive Waste Directive 2006-21-EC

SI 566 of 2009 Extractive Waste

Inventory of Closed Waste Facilities Pre-selection