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Les PCB et les PCT sont dangereux pour la santé et
l'environnement. Leur
dispersion doit être évitée et leur
élimination contrôlée. La proposition de
directive vise à rapprocher les législations sur
l'élimination contrôlée des
PCB/PCT et des appareils contaminés par des PCB/PCT.
Principaux points de la
proposition: . définition d'une teneur maximale de PCB; .
interdiction de
mélanger des déchets contenant des PCB avec d'autres
déchets; . interdiction
de régénération de PCB et de
l'incinération en mer à partir de 1995; .
obligation de marquage des appareils contenant des PCB.
déchets;
. interdiction de régénération de PCB et de
l'incinération en mer à partir
de 1995;
. obligation de marquage des appareils contenant des PCB.
- type
- Legislative proposal published
- title
- COM(1988)0559
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- url
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- type
- Legislative proposal
- title
- OJ C 319 12.12.1988, p. 0057
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- EC
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- date
- 1989-03-30
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- url
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- text
Le Comité économique et social approuve la
proposition de la Commission,
qui constate la nécessité d'élaborer une
directive complémentaire devant
réglementer l'élimination des PCB/PCT,
parallèlement aux mesures adoptées
récemment par le Conseil et visant à interdire la
mise sur le marché des
PCB et PCT. Cette nécessité provient de
l'augmentation du volume des
PCB/PCT usagés et du matériel contaminé par
des PCB/PCT, à la suite de leur
remplacement par d'autres matériels et d ela
décontamination des
installations et des appareils. Le Comité s'est beaucoup
occupé par le
passé du problème de la gestion des déchets :
il attire notamment
l'attention sur son récent avis sur la proposition de
directive modifiant
la directive 75/442/CEE relative aux déchets et la
proposition de directive
relative aux déchets dangereux, qui devrait être lu
conjointement avec le
présent avis. A cet égard, la Commission devrait
examiner à nouveau la
possibilité de retenir en tant que base juridique les
articles 130R et
130S.
Le Comité exprime sa vive préoccupation face
à l'insuffisance des
installations d'élimination d'élimination des PCB
sur terre dans la CEE. Il
est clair, par conséquent, qu'il convient d'accroître
la capacité des
installations de destruction des PCB; le Comité recommande
à la Commission
d'encourager et d'intensifier les investissements à cette
fin. Le Comité
estime que la directive devrait être plus rigoureuse et
prévoir :
- un encouragement visant à éliminer
complètement les PCB, plutôt qu'une
simple interdiction de leur élimination
incontrôlée,
- une interdiction spécifique des importations de produits
contenant des
PCB.
- type
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- group
- PSE
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- BOWE David Robert
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- date
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- group
- PPE
- name
- PALACIO VALLELERSUNDI Ana
-
- date
- 1990-03-22
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- A3-0084/1990
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- OJ C 149 18.06.1990, p. 0006
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- text
La Commission étant en mesure d'accepter seulement 10
parmi les 42 amendements adoptés par le Parlement, le
rapporteur M. Schmidt a demandé le renvoi du rapport en
commission parlementaire dans le but de parvenir à un
compromis avec la Commission.
- type
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
- title
- T3-0236/1990
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- url
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- OJ C 149 18.06.1990, p. 0118-0150
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- date
- 1990-11-28
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- ENVI
- date
- 1994-07-27
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- Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection
- rapporteur
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- group
- PSE
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- BOWE David Robert
-
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- date
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- date
- 1990-12-12
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- text
Le Parlement européen a approuvé la proposition
de directive moyennant certains amendements:
- introduction des polychlorodiphenylméthanes (PCBT) dans
la
définition des PCB;
- interdiction:
.de la mise en circulation de déchets contenant plus de
1
ppm de PCB;
.de l'exportation et de l'importation à destination ou
en
provenance de pays tiers disposant d'installations
d'élimination
adéquates, de PCB usagés ou non, et de leurs
conteneurs;
- renforcement des contrôles et des obligations des
entreprises
autorisées à traiter les PCB;
- introduction de valeurs précises pour
l'incinération des déchetscontenant des PCB:
élimination de cette substance à 99,9998%, taux de
dioxyne et de furannes résultant de la combustion
inférieurs à 0,1 nq/m3 dans les nouvelles
installations...
- protection renforcée des systèmes de mesure de la
température
dans les installations de combustion (un minimum de 1200 d°
est
requis).
- type
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
- title
- T3-0617/1990
-
- url
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- type
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- title
- OJ C 019 28.01.1991, p. 0058-0027
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- date
- 1991-10-22
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- text
La Commission a intégré un certain nombre de
modifications négociées entre ses services et le
rapporteur du PE, M. Schmidt. Elle a ainsi repris la double base
juridique - articles 100A et 113 du traité -,
préconisée par le PE dans la mesure où elle
accepte également la demande d'interdiction de l'exportation
et de l'importation vers et en provenance des pays tiers des PCB et
PCT. Elle accepte également la demande du PE d'interdire
l'incinération en mer, ainsi que plusieurs amendements du PE
visant à renforcer le contrôle des entreprises
d'élimination (autorisation spéciale), les
règles de fonctionnement des installations, et à
imposer une limite d'émission auxditesinstallations. Elle a
par ailleurs tenté de trouver un compromis entre sa
proposition initiale et les amendements du PE concernant:
- la limite supérieure de teneur en PCB: la Commission
accepte l'abaissement à 20 ppm uniquement pour les huiles et
mélanges contenant des PCB destinés à
l'incinération;
- le mélange des PCB avec d'autres déchets: la
Commission préconise d'interdire la mise sur le
marché de mélanges ayant une concentration
supérieure à 1 ppm sauf si ces mélanges sont
destinés à une autre entreprise
d'élimination.
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Adopting the BOWE report, the committee approved the amended
legal basis proposed by the Council, in accordance with the 1991
and 1993 judgments of the Court of Justice.
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The European Parliament approved the amended legal basis
proposed by the Council.
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The common position takes account of developments since the
submission of the amended proposal, as regards both international
and Community instruments and technical progress on the elimination
of dangerous substances.
In September 1992, the contracting parties to the Paris Convention
decided to eliminate PCBs by the end of 1999 in the case of states
with coastlines on the North Sea and by the end of 2010 in the case
of other states party to the Convention. In addition, several other
aspects of the proposal have been resolved through a number of
Community acts (e.g. directive on the transfer and incineration of
PCBs).
The Council agreed that the common position should incorporate
Parliament's amendments seeking to:
- ensure that there were sufficient installations in the Community
for disposing of PCBs;
- add monomethyl-polychloro-diphenyl methanes to the definition of
PCBs and the idea of cumulative limits on the various substances
defined as PCBs;
- ban incineration of PCBs on incinerator ships;
- ban recycling or, in other words, separation of PCBs from other
substances so that PCBs can be re-used;
- isolate PCBs from any flammable products in order to prevent the
risk of fire;
- require any undertaking which decontaminates and/or disposes of
used PCBs and equipment containing PCBs to obtain a licence;
- require that, when PCBs are replaced in a transformer after it
has been decontaminated, the substitute fluid is much less
hazardous than PCBs;
- ensure that the competent authorities monitor the quantities of
PCBs notified on the inventory;
- add PCBs to compulsory decontamination and/or disposal plans for
inventoried equipment ;
- accept other methods of disposal apart from incineration.
The Council also strengthened certain aspects of the amended
proposal, such as:
- the compilation of inventories, where it is made mandatory for
every quantity exceeding 5 dm3 to be inventoried within a shorter
period than laid down originally. The checking of inventories has
also been made stricter;
- the topping up of transformers with PCBs, which will be
prohibited;
- more flexibility in the interpretation of the principle of
proximity in order to allow certain Member States with no disposal
capacity to comply with the directive;
Finally, the Council also made other important changes, mainly
involving:
- the introduction of a deadline by the end of the year 2010 for
the elimination of PCBs, which does not prevent Member States which
have undertaken to eliminate their PCBs earlier from doing
so;
- the revision and simplification of the conditions governing the
decontamination of equipment and a derogation from the deadline of
2010 for transformers with low concentrations of PCBs so that they
may be disposed of at the end of their useful lives;
- the conferral on the Commission of additional implementing powers
such as the fixing of technical standards for other methods of
disposing of PCBs, a list of the production names of capacitors and
other less hazardous substitutes.
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The committee adopted a draft recommendation by Mr David BOWE
(PE 216.591).
However, the Commission representative told the committee that the
Commission would prefer many of the problems involved to be dealt
with in a broader context than this directive.
The committee adopted unanimously four amendments to the following
effect:
- it added a recital to the common position insisting that "there
is a need to fund research into other methods of disposal of PCBs
and PCTs and other persistent organic chlorines, in particular
methods involving biodegradation and pretreatment using chlorine
extraction";
- While Council Directive 75/439/EEC on the disposal of waste oils
lays down 50 ppm (parts per million) as the maximum limit for the
PCB or PCT content of regenerated oils or oils used as fuel, the
committee took the view (amendment 2) that, in the light of
technical progress, this limit should be reduced to 20 ppm for
mixtures to be used as combustibles including waste oil;
- the committee also called on Member States to ensure that
compliance with the directive's disposal and decontamination
provisions is monitored and that violations are effectively
penalized;
- finally, it called on Member States to introduce risk liability
and to require that the operation of disposal installations be
covered by insurance
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Adopting the report by Mr David HOWE (PSE, UK), the European
Parliament approved at second reading the Council's common position
on the directive on the disposal of PCB/PCT. In its amendments,
Parliament considered however that:
- there was a need to fund research into other methods of disposal
of PCBs and PCTs and other persistent organic chlorines, in
particular methods involving bacterial biodegradation and
pretreatment using chlorine extraction and innovative
dehalogenation chemical processes;
- having regard to technical progress, the maximum limit for the
PCB and PCT content of mixtures to be used as combustibles,
including waste oil, should be reduced to 20 ppm.
Lastly, the European Parliament stressed that violations concerning
the disposal of PCBs and equipment containing PCBs should be
effectively penalized by the Member States.
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The Council adopted the Directive by unanimous
decision. An interim report on the implementation of the Directive
was to be drawn up by the Commission in 2000.
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OBJECTIVE : to approximate the laws of the Member States on
the controlled disposal of PCB/PCT
and equipment contaminated by such substances (in particular,
transformers and condensers).
COMMUNITY MEASURE: Council Directive 96/59/EC on the disposal of
polychlorinated
biphenyls and polychlorinated terphenyls (PCB/ PCT).
SUBSTANCE : the Directive amends and replaces Directive 76/403/EEC
on the disposal of PCBs,
which became obsolete following the prohibition of the marketing of
such substances and the
progress in disposal technologies.
The main elements of the Directive are as follows:
- Member States are required, within a three-year period, to draw
up plans for the decontamination
and/or disposal of inventoried equipment and the PCBs contained
therein, as well as outlines for the
collection and subsequent disposal of equipment which is not
subject to inventory; these plans and
outlines are communicated to the Commission;
- deadline for decontamination and/or disposal of equipment
containing PCBs which is subject to
inventory: end of 2010, except for certain transformers containing
between 50 and 500 ppm
(particles per million) in PCBs which can remain in service until
the end of their useful lives;
- PCB volumes required for the compiling of the abovementioned
inventory: more than 5 dm3.
An interim report on the implementation of the Directive will be
drawn up by the Commission in
the year 2000.
DATE of ENTRY INTO FORCE : 16 September 1996
DEADLINE FOR TRANSPOSITION INTO NATIONAL LEGISLATION: 16 March
1998.
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