State regulation on waste and contaminated soil

Article 5 of Law 22/2011, of July 28, on waste and contaminated soil, on the end of the status of waste, grants the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment the power to establish by ministerial order, the specific criteria that certain types of waste that have been subjected to a recovery operation must meet so that they can no longer be considered as such.

It is the Ministry that makes the decision on the waste flows for which it is most appropriate to evaluate the possible establishment of end-of-waste status criteria.