S.L. 549.50 Art. 5General requirements.

(1) Extractive waste shall be managed and excavation voids shall be backfilled without endangering human health and without using processes or methods which could harm the environment, and in particular without risk to water, air, soil and fauna and flora, without causing a nuisance through noise or odours and without adversely affecting the landscape or places of special interest.

(2) The abandonment, dumping, uncontrolled depositing of extractive waste or uncontrolled backfilling into excavation voids shall be prohibited.

(3) The operator shall take all measures necessary to prevent or reduce as far as possible any adverse effects on the environment and human health brought about as a result of the management of extractive waste or backfilling into excavation voids. This includes the management of any waste facility, also after its closure, and the prevention of major accidents involving that facility and the limiting of their consequences for the environment and human health.

(4) The measures referred to in sub-regulation (3) shall be based, inter alia, on the best available techniques, without prescribing the use of any technique or specific technology, but taking into account the technical characteristics of the waste facility or excavation void, its geographical location and the local environmental conditions.