The Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025
15 April 2025
Amends/Commences: Assimilated Regulation 2019/1021 on persistent organic pollutants
Comes into force: 1st April 2025
Jurisdiction: GB
Maximum permitted waste concentration limits are added in Annex V for:
Annex IV (list of substances subject to waste management provisions set out in Article 7) is updated with reduced concentration limits permitted for tetrabromodiphenyl ether, pentabromodiphenyl ether, hexabromodiphenyl ether, heptabromodiphenyl ether and decabromodiphenyl ether. Pentachlorophenol and its salts and esters and Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts and PFOA-related compounds are also added to the list.
The list of wastes and operations which the Environment Agency, Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Natural Resources Wales may exempt from standard disposal and recovery is expanded to include:
Annex I is updated, with changes made in relation to:
New substances are also added to Annex I (list of substances in the Protocol and/or in the Convention). These are:
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Comes into force: 1st April 2025
Jurisdiction: GB
Maximum permitted waste concentration limits are added in Annex V for:
- the sum of the concentrations of pentachlorophenol, its salts, and its esters;
- dicofol;
- perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts and PFOA-related compounds; and
- perfluorohexane sulfonic acid (PFHxS), its salts and PFHxS-related compounds.
Annex IV (list of substances subject to waste management provisions set out in Article 7) is updated with reduced concentration limits permitted for tetrabromodiphenyl ether, pentabromodiphenyl ether, hexabromodiphenyl ether, heptabromodiphenyl ether and decabromodiphenyl ether. Pentachlorophenol and its salts and esters and Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts and PFOA-related compounds are also added to the list.
The list of wastes and operations which the Environment Agency, Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Natural Resources Wales may exempt from standard disposal and recovery is expanded to include:
- fly ash from peat and untreated wood; and
- soil and stones other than those mentioned in 17 05 03.
Annex I is updated, with changes made in relation to:
- hexachlorobenzene;
- pentachlorophenol; and
- perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).
New substances are also added to Annex I (list of substances in the Protocol and/or in the Convention). These are:
- dechlorane plus;
- methoxychlor; and
- UV-238.
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