Reducing Landfill: A Landfill Allowance Scheme Consultation
Footnotes
1 Council Directive 99/31/EC: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/1999/l_182/l_18219990716en00010019.pdf
2 The Landfill Directive, published by the Scottish Executive in November 1999: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library2/doc07/ldcp-00.htm
3 Limiting Landfill, published by DETR in October 1999: www.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/strategy/landfill/index.htm
Option 4 considers tradable permits for local authorities.
4 Tradable Landfill Permits Consultation Paper, published by DETR in March 2001: http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/consult/tradeperm/pdf/tradable.pdf
5 Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme Consultation, August 2003: http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/landfill/consultation-doc.pdf.
6 The National Waste Plan 2003 can be obtained from The Stationery Office, 71 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9AZ Tel: 0870 606 5566 or PO Box 29, Norwich, NR3 1GN, and is available on the internet at http://www.sepa.org.uk/nws/guidance/nwp.htm
7 The regulatory aspects of the Landfill Directive were discussed in the Safer Landfill, published August 2002, and available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/environment/sl2c.pdf.
8 SSI 2003 no. 235 can be obtained from The Stationery Office, 71 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9AZ Tel: 0870 606 5566 or PO Box 29, Norwich, NR3 1GN, and is available on the internet at http://www.scotland-legislation.hmso.gov.uk/legislation/scotland/ssi2003/20030235.htm
9 Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003, available from Her Majesty's Stationery Office, St Clement's House, 2-16 Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BQ, or at http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2003/20030033.htm
10 This is likely to be the most recent set of full data.
11 This is the figure reported to the Commission as Scotland's rate in 1995.
12 More information about how the fines are applied can be found on the Europa Website at http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=31997Y0228(01)&model=guichett.
13 Council Directive 99/31/EC on the landfill of waste. The full text of the Directive is available on the internet at: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/1999/l_182/l_18219990716en00010019.pdf
14 "The Landfill Directive", published by the Executive in November 1999, http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library2/doc07/ldcp-00.htm