The European Energy from Waste Market - Status and Perspectives

The legal framework for the European waste management constitutes the EU Waste Framework Directive (WFD). In addition, important regulations are anchored for the sector of waste treatment, such as the EU Waste Shipment Regulation, EU Directive on Packaging Waste, EU Landfill Directive, EU Waste Incineration Directive, and EU Combined Heat and Power Policy Directive.

In accordance with the Landfill Directive, the EU Member States have an obligation to prevent the production of methane gas from landfills, making therewith a contribution to climate protection. Therefore, the Directive requires a significant reduction in the deposition of organic waste. Based on the year 1995, the deposit of biodegradable municipal waste is to be reduced by the year 2006 by 25 per cent, by the year 2009 by 50 per cent, and by the year 2016 by 65 per cent. Moreover, a general pre-treatment regulation (ban on dumping of untreated municipal waste) is in force.

Since December 2005, the amendment of the EU Waste Framework Directive has been discussed and adopted in the year 2008 by a legislative resolution of the European Parliament. The revised version of the Waste Framework Directive has, inter alia, become necessary in order to clarify the definition of key terms, such as waste, recycling, and disposal, and to strengthen measures for waste recycling.

 

 

Rechtliche und praktische Unsicherheiten bei der Durchführung des europäischen Klimaanpassungsrechts durch das Bundes- Klimaanpassungsgesetz (KAnG)
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In the context of the European Climate Law (EU) 2021/1119), the Governance Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 and the Nature Restoration Regulation (EU) 2024/1991, the KAnG came into force on July 1, 2024.

Transformatives Klimarecht: Raum, Zeit, Gesellschaft
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This article contends that climate law should be conceived as inherently transformative in a double sense. The law not only guides the necessary transformation of economy and society, but is itself undergoing transformation.

Maßnahmen zur Klimaanpassung sächsischer Talsperren
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Die Landestalsperrenverwaltung des Freistaates Sachsen (LTV) betreibt aktuell insgesamt 87 Stauanlagen, darunter 25 Trinkwassertalsperren. Der Stauanlagenbestand ist historisch gewachsen und wurde für unterschiedliche Zwecke errichtet.

 

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