S.L. 549.63 Art. 10CPreparing for re- use and recycling targets.

(1) The Minister, in consultation with the competent authority and the Agency, shall take measures to promote preparing for re-use activities, notably by encouraging the establishment of, and support for, preparing for re-use and repair networks, by facilitating, where compatible with proper waste management, their access to waste held by collection schemes or facilities that can be prepared for re-use but is not destined for preparing for re-use by those schemes or facilities, and by promoting the use of economic instruments, procurement criteria, quantitative objectives or other measures. The Minister, in consultation with the competent authority and the Agency, shall take measures to promote high-quality recycling and, to this end, subject to regulation 10B(2) and (3), shall set up separate collection of waste.

The Minister, in consultation with the competent authority and the Agency, shall take measures to promote selective demolition in order to enable removal and safe handling of hazardous substances and facilitate re-use and high-quality recycling by selective removal of materials, and to ensure the establishment of sorting systems for construction and demolition waste at least for wood, mineral fractions (concrete, bricks, tiles and ceramics, stones), metal, glass, plastic and plaster.

(2) In order to comply with the objectives of these regulations and move towards a European circular economy with a high level of resource efficiency, the following targets shall be achieved:

(a) by 2025, the preparing for re-use and the recycling of municipal waste shall be increased to a minimum of 55% by weight;

(b) by 2030, the preparing for re-use and the recycling of municipal waste shall be increased to a minimum of 60% by weight;

(c) by 2035, the preparing for re-use and the recycling of municipal waste shall be increased to a minimum of 65% by weight:

Provided that the Minister may by notice in the Gazette place the responsibility for the achievement of the targets referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) on the Local Councils, or on the Regional Councils, or on both.

(3) The Minister may postpone the deadlines for attaining the targets referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of sub-regulation (2) by up to five (5) years, provided that:

(a) Malta has prepared for re-use and recycled less than twenty per cent (20%) or landfilled more than sixty per cent (60%) of its municipal waste generated in 2013 as reported under the Joint Questionnaire of the OECD and Eurostat; and

(b) at the latest twenty-four (24) months before the respective deadline laid down in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of sub-regulation (2), the Minister notifies the Commission of its intention to postpone the respective deadline and submits an implementation plan in accordance with Schedule 13.

(4) Within three (3) months of receipt of the implementation plan submitted pursuant to paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (3), the Commission may request Malta to revise the plan if the Commission considers that the plan does not comply with the requirements set out in Schedule 13. Malta shall submit a revised plan within three (3) months of the receipt of the Commission’s request.

(5) In the event of postponing the attainment of the targets in accordance with sub-regulation (3), the Minister, in consultation with the competent authority and the agency, shall take the necessary measures to increase the preparing for re-use and the recycling of municipal waste:

(a) to a minimum of fifty per cent (50%) by 2025 in the event of postponing the deadline for attaining the target referred to in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2);

(b) to a minimum of fifty-five per cent (55%) by 2030 in the event of postponing the deadline for attaining the target referred to in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2);

(c) to a minimum of sixty per cent (60%) by 2035 in the event of postponing the deadline for attaining the target referred to in paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2).