2017/0306/P
EC/EFTA
PT Portugal
  • S00E - UMWELT
2017-11-09
2017-07-14

Products covered: Packaging and packaging waste; oils and waste oils; tyres and used tyres; electrical and electronic equipment and waste electrical and electronic equipment; batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators; vehicles and end-of-life vehicles.

Services covered: Producers of the products referred to above, packers; importers of packaged products; service packaging suppliers; managing bodies of the above-mentioned specific waste streams; distributors; waste management operators; municipal waste management systems.

Legislative consolidation concentrating into a single piece of legislation the legal framework for specific waste streams whose management is based on the principle of extended producer responsibility.

The legislation combines the legal discipline applicable to the management of specific waste streams based on extended producer responsibility, which was spread over the following legislative texts:

Decree-Law No 366-A/97 of 20 December 1997 and Ministerial Implementing Order No 29-B/98 of 15 January 1998 on packaging and packaging waste; Decree-Law No 407/98 of 21 December 1998 laying down the rules concerning essential requirements on the composition of packaging; Decree-Law No 111/2001 of 6 April 2001 on the management of tyres and used tyres; Decree-Law No 153/2003 of 11 June 2003 on the management of new oils and waste oils; Order No 1028/92 of 5 November 1992 governing the transport of waste oils; Decree-Law No 196/2003 of 23 August 2003 on the management of vehicles and end-of-life vehicles; Decree-Law No 6/2009 of 6 January 2009 on the management of batteries and accumulators; Decree-Law No 67/2014 of 7 May 2014 on the management of waste electrical and electronic equipment;

Ministerial Implementing Order No 286-B/2014 of 31 December 2014 establishing the rules provided for in Law No 82-D/2014 of 31 December 2014 on the contribution on lightweight plastic carrier bags; Order No 9276/2004, which defines the model certificate for the destruction for end-of-life vehicles; Order No 9593/2015 of 24 August 2015, which defines the methodology for preparing the requirements and rules for the qualification procedure of waste management operators, under the Integrated Management System of Packaging and Packaging Waste in Agriculture (Valorfito).

The legislation ensures the transposition into national law of the following Directives, as well as the subsequent amendments thereto: Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste; Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles; Directive 2006/66/EC on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators and Directive 2012/19/EU of 4 July 2012 on waste electrical and electronic equipment.