§ Mr. MansTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when the interim technical guidance on special wastes will be produced for consultation. [23931]
§ Mr. AtkinsWe are publishing the interim technical guidance on special wastes for consultation today. Our consultation paper on the special waste regulations and the hazardous waste directive issued on 27 March concerned the procedural controls which would apply under the revised special waste regulations. This technical guidance document sets out a series of desk procedures 495W for checking whether a particular waste has characteristics which show it to fall within the control system of the regulations. It will be "interim" guidance until the Department is ready to publish a complete revision of waste management paper No. 23. The consultation period will be until 8 June 1995.