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The honourable Member touches on various issues relating to the application of Community legislation on hazardous waste in Greece. I shall reply to these issues one at a time.
As far as the criteria on the basis of which waste is accepted at each class of landfill site is concerned, the procedures and measures for accepting waste at sanitary landfill sites, as they are euphemistically called in Greece, are basically set out in joint ministerial decree 29407/3508 of 2002 transposing the landfill of waste directive into Greek legislation. All Greek decrees on hazardous waste management are notified to the Commission as soon as they are issued. Council decision 2003/33 establishing criteria and procedures for the acceptance of waste at landfills entered into force in June 2004. The Member States are required to apply the criteria set out in the second part of the annex to the said decision by 16 July 2005. Greece has still not notified any additional measures of compliance with this decision.
The second question concerns information on the hazardous waste produced annually in Greece. Within the framework of the submission of reports on the application of the hazardous waste directive, the Greek authorities pass on information on the quantities of waste produced annually and the methods used to dispose of or recover it. According to the information available for the period from 1998 to 2003, an average of 363 400 tonnes of hazardous waste was produced annually. Most of this, approximately two thirds of the hazardous waste produced, is stored temporarily before it is definitively disposed of or recovered. More detailed information is available to the honourable Member, if he is interested.
Finally, as regards non-compliance with the judgment of 13 June 2002, Article 8, paragraph 3 of Directive 91/689 makes provision for a specific obligation to submit reports. To be precise, the Member States are required to send the Commission information on every unit or undertaking or establishment engaged in the disposal and recovery of hazardous waste. In its judgment of 13 June 2002, the European Court of Justice ruled that the Hellenic Republic had failed to fulfil its obligations under the above provisions. As the Commission was sent unsatisfactory information on the measures which Greece had taken to comply with the Court judgment, the Commission set in motion the procedure in accordance with Article 228 of the Treaty of the European Communities. In response to the official letter of notification from the Commission, the Greek authorities sent the information available, as required under Article 8. This information is being examined in order to establish the extent to which Greece has complied with the aforementioned Court judgment. If the information passed on is found to be unsatisfactory, the Commission shall be forced to issue a reasoned opinion in accordance with Article 228, paragraph 2 of the Treaty of the European Communities."@en1
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