S.L. 549.29 Art. 3Exclusions.

(1) These regulations shall apply to any landfill as defined in regulation 2.

(2) The following activities shall be excluded from the scope of these regulations:

(a) the spreading of sludges, including sewage sludges, and sludges resulting from dredging operations, and similar matter on the soil for the purpose of fertilisation or improvement,

(b) the use of inert waste which is suitable, in development restoration and filling-in work, or for construction purposes, in landfills,

(c) the deposit of non-hazardous dredging sludges alongside small waterways from where they have been dredged out and of non-hazardous sludges in surface water including the bed and its sub-soil.

(3) The management of waste from land-based extractive industries, that is to say, the waste arising from the prospecting, extraction, including the pre-production development stage, treatment and storage of mineral resources and from the working of quarries, shall be excluded from the scope of these regulations where it falls within the scope of other European Union legislative acts.