End-of-waste criteria technical adaptation committee to meet in March

The next meeting of the technical adaptation committee on end-of-waste criteria is scheduled for the first week of March 2010, after the December meeting was cancelled. It is unlikely, however, that the Commission will be in a position by March to vote on ferrous metal and aluminium scrap. This is planned to take place by the end of 2010, after which the European Parliament will have 3 months to react. A second stakeholder workshop on paper is also scheduled for March 2010. No action has yet been taken on glass, but this stream will be looked at next, before biowaste (compost) and plastics (to be used as raw material for new products). CEMBUREAU will follow up on new developments concerning biowaste and plastics end-of-waste.