- Derogations on waste trade Largely in response to Danish
concerns about increased waste imports from Germany, the Council
included the possibility for member states to limit incoming
shipments of waste, in cases "where it has been established that
such shipments would have the consequence that national waste
[…] would have to be disposed of" rather than "recovered"
through incineration. - Disposal versus recovery Ministers voted
essentially in favour of allowing a number of municipal
incinerators to be defined as "recovery" operations based on an
energy efficiency formula put forward by the Commission in its
original proposal. In order to take into account "local climatic
conditions", Council favours a case-by-case application of the
efficiency formula, to be decided by committee procedure.
Parliament had initially rejected the efficiency formula,
arguing that incinerators should only be defined as recovery
operations if their principle purpose is energy production,
whether from waste or other fuels. It is