Legislations

Main waste legislation
Decree-law nº178 / 06 of September 5
Approves the general waste regime - transposition of Directive 2006/12 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April and of Council Directive 91/689 / EC of 12 December.
Decree-law nº73 / 2011 of June 17
Approves the third amendment to Decree-Law No 178/6 of 5 September transposing Directive No 2008/98 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and amending various legal systems in the area waste. Official Journal: Diário da República, number: 116, date of publication: 17/06/2011, page: 03251-03300; reference: (MNE (2011) 54453).
Directive 2008/98 / EC of 19 November 2008
Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and establishing the legal framework for waste treatment in the Community.
Other waste legislation
Decree-Law nº85 / 2014 of May 27
It ensures the implementation in the internal legal order of the obligations arising from Regulation (EC) No 1005/2009 of 16 September 2009 on substances that deplete the ozone layer.
Decree-Law No. 67/2014, of 7 May
Approves the legal regime for the management of waste electrical and electronic equipment, transposing Directive 2012/19 / EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012
Decree-Law No. 156/2013 of 5 November
It establishes the legal and regulatory framework for the responsible and safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste.
Decree-Law 127/2013 of 30 August
It lays down the industrial emissions regime applicable to integrated pollution prevention and control, as well as rules to avoid and / or reduce emissions to air, water and soil and waste generation, transposing Directive 2010/75 / EU of 24 November on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control).
Decree-Law No. 110/2013 of 2 August
Proceed with the fifth amendment to Decree-Law no. 366-A / 97, of December 20, on packaging and packaging waste.
Decree-Law 88/2013 of 9 July
The second amendment to Decree-Law no. 183/2009 of 10 August and transposes Council Directive 2011/97 / EU of 5 December 2011 on specific storage of metallic mercury as waste.
Model of the RCD prevention and management plan
Decree-Law no. 46/2008, of 12 March, established the specific legal regime to be governed by the management of waste resulting from works or demolitions of buildings or landslides, called construction and demolition waste (RCD) , as well as their prevention.
Regulation (EU) No 1179/2012 of 10 December
It lays down the criteria for determining when the glass hull ceases to constitute waste within the meaning of Directive 2008/98 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.
Regulation (EU) No 333/2011 of 8 April
It lays down the criteria for determining when certain types of scrap metal cease to constitute waste within the meaning of Directive 2008/98 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.
Commission Communication on Waste and By-Products (2009)
Communication containing guidance based on the case law of the European Court of Justice on waste and by-products.
Decree-Law no. 173/2008 of 26 August
It establishes the integrated pollution prevention and control regime for certain activities and the establishment of measures to prevent or, where this is not possible, to reduce emissions of such activities to air, water or soil, prevention and control noise and waste generation, with a view to achieving a high level of protection of the environment as a whole.
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