Decree No.5606 of 2019: Determining the principles of hazardous waste management. Pays/Territoire Liban Type du document Règlement Date 2019 Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Environnement gén., Déchets et substances dangereuses Mot clé Déchets solides Gestion des déchets Autorisation/permis Collecte de données/déclarations Déchets dangereux Gestion intégrée Emballage/étiquetage Monitorage Protection de l’environnement Transport/dépôt Élimination de déchets Prévention des déchets Aire géographique Asie, Méditerranée, Moyen-Orient, Afrique du Nord et Proche-Orient, Asie Occidentale Entry into force notes This Decree enters into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette. Résumé This Decree consisting of 43 articles aims at specifying the fundamentals of hazardous waste management under the Law of Integrated Solid Waste Management. This includes (i) a characterization and a classification of these wastes; (ii) the establishment of an appropriate monitoring and controlling system to control the operations of generation, sorting, collection, transport, storage, recovery, treatment, and final disposal of hazardous wastes, aiming at minimizing the negative impacts on the environment. Non-hazardous, radioactive, and infectious waste are exempted from the provisions of this Decree. The Ministry of Environment shall prepare and update a national inventory of hazardous wastes from all its sources of generation (art.7). Article 8 encourages reducing the generation of hazardous wastes by adopting integrated environmental management, using less harmful raw materials such as environmentally friendly alternatives, and using the best available techniques. Each hazardous waste generator must declare about his activity by filling out the waste data survey (art.9) and is obliged to label the containers designed for the storage of hazardous waste (art.11). Texte intégral Arabe/Anglais Site web www.moe.gov.lb Références - Législation Implemente Law No.80 of 2018 on Integrated Solid Waste Management. Législation | Liban | 2018 Mot clé: Gestion des déchets, Déchets solides, Élimination de déchets, Déchets ménagers, Prévention des déchets, Eaux souterraines, Eaux superficielles, Santé publique, Principe de précaution, Principe pollueur-payeur, Lutte contre la pollution, Déchets dangereux, Législation de base, Recyclage/réemploi, Subvention/incitation, Transformation/manutention, Infractions/sanctions, Pollution des eaux douces Source: FAO, FAOLEX