Clifford Chance
Spain: Legislative changes introduced by Act 7/2022 on waste and contaminated soil for a circular economy
6 October 2022
On 10 April last, the new Waste and Contaminated Soil Act for a Circular Economy (Ley 7/2022, de 8 de abril, de residuos y suelos contaminados para una economía circular, “LRSC”) entered into force, transposing (i) the amendments to Directive 2008/98 (the Waste Framework Directive) implemented by Directive 2018/851, and (ii) Directive 2019/904, on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment (the Single-Use Plastics Directive). The LRSC is strengthening the development of a circular economy and the principle of a waste hierarchy, by means of imposing mandatory economic instruments to make the waste hierarchy effective, encouraging the prevention, separate collection and recovery of waste, establishing minimum rules and expanding situations where the extended responsibility systems of product producers are mandatory, as well as prohibiting, limiting and encouraging separate collection, for recovery, of waste from single-use plastic products.
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