S.L. 549.29 Art. 2Interpretation.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"applicant" means any person who applies for a landfill operating permit under these regulations; "biodegradable waste" means any waste that is capable of undergoing anaerobic or aerobic decomposition, such as food and garden waste, and paper and paperboard; "competent authority" means the Environment and Resources Authority as prescribed by the Nomination of the Competent

* OJ L 312, 22.11.2008, p. 3. Authority Order, and such other body or person as the Minister responsible for the environment may by order in the Gazette prescribe and different bodies or persons may be designated as the competent authority for different provisions and different purposes of these regulations; "eluate" means the solution obtained by a laboratory leaching test; "inert waste" means waste that does not undergo any significant physical, chemical or biological transformations. Inert waste will not dissolve, burn or otherwise physically or chemically react, biodegrade or adversely affect other matter with which it comes into contact in a way likely to give rise to environmental pollution or harm human health. The total leachability and pollutant content of the waste and the ecotoxicity of the leachate must be insignificant, and in particular not endanger the quality of surface water and, or groundwater; "landfill" means a waste disposal site for the deposit of the waste onto or into land (i.e. underground), including: - internal waste disposal sites i.e. landfill where a producer of waste is carrying out its own waste disposal at the place of production, and - a permanent site i.e. more than one year, which is used for temporary storage of waste;

but excluding: - facilities where waste is unloaded in order to permit its preparation for further transport for recovery, treatment or disposal elsewhere, and - storage of waste prior to recovery or treatment for a period less than three years as a general rule, or - storage of waste prior to disposal for a period less than one year; "landfill gas" means all the gases generated from the landfilled waste; "landfill operating permit" or "permit" means a permit to operate a landfill issued under the Waste Regulations; "leachate" means any liquid percolating through the deposited waste and emitted from or contained within a landfill; "liquid waste" means any waste in liquid form including waste waters but excluding sludge; "operator" means the natural or legal person responsible for a landfill; this person may change from the preparation to the after-care phase;

"treatment" means the physical, thermal, chemical or biological processes, including sorting, that change the characteristics of the waste in order to reduce its volume or hazardous nature, facilitate its handling or enhance recovery; "underground storage" means a permanent waste storage facility in a deep geological cavity such as a salt or potassium mine. The words "waste", "hazardous waste", "non-hazardous waste", "municipal waste", "waste producer", "waste holder", "waste management", "separate collection", "recovery", "preparing for re-use", "recycling" and "disposal" shall have the same meaning as that assigned to them in regulation 4 of the Waste Regulations.