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Meets the day 'The new framework directive for waste'
03/03/2009
March 3, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, an environment on 'The new framework directive for waste' day took place in the Chamber of Commerce of Castellón . The purpose of this day was inform attendees this new European standard, and discuss the different points of view on the same.
The opening and presentation of the day was provided by Lamparero Jorge Lázaro, director-general for climate change, and Salvador Martí Huguet, President of the Chamber of trade of Castellón. She attended by Javier Serrano García, Vice-President of Adame, which dealt with the directive from the legal point of view; Pierre Delcroix, CEO of Ecocat, which referred to the approach of the managers in the field; and Vicente Aparici Moya, Vice President of the provincial Council of Castellón, who tried to approach to consortia of waste.
The new waste framework directive was adopted by the Council of Ministers of environment of the European Union on October 20, 2008. With this new framework directive (which repealed Directive framework of waste 2006/12/EC, Directive 91/689/ECC of hazardous waste and the waste oil Directive 75/439/EEC), is intended to achieve a simplification and modernisation of the legislationimplement a policy of prevention more effective and ambitious, as well as promoting product reuse and recycling of waste. It also introduces new definitions as hazardous waste, bio-waste, recovery and disposal, preparation for re-use, among others.
