The enforcement of environmental law, policy and sanction
Regulation of Landfill in Ireland
1. Focus on Landfill Report 2010 Engineers Ireland, Local Government Division Mr. Dara Lynott BE, MSc, PE, Ceng, FIEI Deputy Director General Environmental Protection Agency September 30 th , 2010 All or part of this publication may be reproduced without further permission, provided the source is acknowledged.
WFD: The 1975 Waste Framework Directive introduced a licensing system for any establishment which carried out a waste disposal operation such as a landfill and was applicable from 15 July 1977 S22 of the WMA: A waste management plan shall…include information on The identification of sites at which waste disposal or recovery activities have been carried on, The assessment of any risk of environmental pollution The identification of measures proposed to be taken to achieve remediation However the S22 did not give a deadline for this work. Ministerial Direction May 2005: LA’s were directed to ensure that the S22 requirement is met in the review of their Waste Management Plans. CoP : ERA for Unregulated Waste Disposal Sites. S76 of the EPA act.
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