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STANDARD & LEGISLATION - UCIF Informs
Italian Regulations: Environmental Declaration Form Marcello Zinno UCIF – Italian Surface Treatment Equipment Manufacturers’ Association, Milan, Italy
A
n Italian decree issued on December 2018 sanctioned that companies
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their authorisations via the SA-AUT form; - the Simplified Waste Communication
Alongside these conventional communications, there are other
will have to submit an Environmental
must be completed exclusively using the
declarations that must be submitted
Declaration Form (Modello Unico di
application available on the Simplified
exclusively electronically, i.e.
Dichiarazione Ambientale, or MUD) for
Waste Communication website and it
Waste communication, End of life
2019 by April 30, 2020. Such Form is a
cannot be completed manually and sent
vehicles communication, Waste
by post;
from electrical and electronic
well-known tool established by law no. 70/1994 for declaring the waste produced,
- the Italian packaging consortium (Conai)
equipment communication, Packaging
collected, transported, disposed of, and
must communicate electronically to the
communication-Consortia section, and
sent for recovery by economic activities in
National section of the Land registry of
Packaging communication-Packaging
the year preceding the declaration. This
waste data on the annual use of plastic
waste managing authority section.
decree practically confirmed the fulfilments
bags made of light materials and acquired
The Ministry for Environment, Land and
already imposed by the 2017 Prime
by manufacturers and distributors
Sea Protection of Italy also published
Minister decree, i.e.:
of plastic bags; this complies with art.
the procedures for submitting the
- all subjects with authorisation to carry out
220-bis of legislative decree no. 152/2006,
Environmental Declaration Form (MUD)
waste recovery or disposal activities must
dealing with the “Reporting obligation on
and the records for the electronic
transmit a series of information relating to
the use of plastic bags”.
transmission.
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