Executive Regulations for waste management act

Council of Ministers Decree subject of 84/5/10 and 1388/8/2 corrigendum

Article 1- In addition to the terms set in Article (2) of the Waste Management Act sanction of 1383, related phrases and terms explained in detail as below:

Act: Waste Management Act legislated in 1383.
Separation: separating wastes from each other
Recycling: The process of turning waste into reusable materials or energy
National Committee: National Working Group on Waste Management
Fund: National Environmental Fund, Paragraph “b” of Article 68 of Law of the Fourth Economic, Social and Cultural Development Plan of the Islamic Republic of Iran legislated in 1383.
Standard institute: Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran
Special ingredient: Those special waste created by people who mainly produce common wastes.
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency.

Article 2- To achieve coordination between agencies mentioned in the law, the National Committee were designed by the following composition:

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (head of the working group)
Deputy Minister of Interior (head of the country’s municipalities and RMs)
Deputy Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education
Deputy Minister of Industries and Mines
Deputy Oil Minister
Deputy Minister of Energy
Deputy Ministry of Agriculture Jihad
Deputy Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran
Deputy Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting
Deputy of Management and Planning organization
Deputy Mayor of Tehran
The deputies of other devices as needed

Clause- Provincial Task Force for coordination at the provincial level forms by combining province managers with the responsibility of deputy governor in charge of civil affairs and secretary of the Director-General of Environmental Protection. The above-mentioned task force can form necessary by the lieutenant governor responsibility in the county with similar composition at the city level.

Article 3 – National Committee functions in compliance with the following law:

Compile, adjust, and reviewing tables list of waste in Clause (2) of Article (2) of the Act for adoption in Environmental Protection Council. Organizations must announce their special waste to the National Committee and suggesting organizations while reviewing requested items, take part in the committee with their voting right.
Create coordination among organization for proposing standards prescribed in the Law to the Standards Institute
Coordination between law enforcement agencies in the implementation of cultural affairs, education, and information.
Proposal to correct the list referred to in Article (12) about Regulations governing the recycling charge from manufacturers and importers
Proposal to expand the use of recycled raw materials
Suggestion for regulations and related guidelines to:
1. Disposal, processing, and recycling of waste
2. Special waste recognition range and production and consumption ways to produce lower waste.
3. How to assign waste executive management to natural and legal persons applying for investment in waste management
Serving other recommendations relating to waste management

Clause: The recommendations in paragraphs (5), (6), and (7) submitted to the Environmental Protection Council and if necessary will be referred to other institutions.

Article 4 – The executive management of common wastes should be so detailed and comprehensive waste management plan in a way that all the common waste will collect and separate in provincial capitals and cities with a population over one million people by the end of 1390 and in other towns and villages by the end of 1392.

Clause 1- the mentioned Master Plan will approve in Article (2) Committee of this guideline and the detailed plan enacted in related Islamic council.

Clause 2- special ingredient of ordinary and agricultural waste, not considered as normal waste, but the executive management is responsible for executive management of normal waste which its components predict in normal waste management strategic plan.

Clause 3- Budget for education and awareness of waste will be provided by the Ministry of Interior (The country’s municipalities and RMs).

Article 5- the Ministry of Interior should prepare and execute guidelines related to agricultural, normal, and special waste conversion to ordinary waste such as production, storage, collection, sorting, transportation, recycling, processing, and disposal by coordination of other organization and the provisions of Article (11) of the Act six month after notification of the rules of procedure.

Clause- Style of this article after the preparation and publication in the Official Gazette of the Islamic Republic of Iran considered as a declaration of entry into force of doing.

Article 6- The Interior Ministry is obliged to:

Deliver rules, regulations, and legal procedures to the ordinary waste executive manager and Islamic councils
Prepare normal and agricultural waste management and represent the organization to complete a Comprehensive database of waste
Normal waste disposal sites should determine according to environmental regulations and coordination with the agriculture Jihad ministry.
Prepare a contracting practice and referred waste management operations to real and legal persons.
Providing executive Style to organize real and legal persons before the law and regulations have normally functioned in waste management operations.
To cooperate with the ministry of health and medical education to provide a method referred to Article (5).

Article 7- designated waste disposal sites if necessary, to implement the provisions of the law of how to buy shares owned by the executive management of the wastes following relevant regulations and rules of operation.

Article 8- Normal waste producers and real and natural persons responsible in centers complexes producing normal wastes, including houses, managers, and operators of buildings and settlements, camps, barracks, farms and commercial complexes, services, education, entertainment, and recreation are responsible for the executive manager of ordinary wastes and required to follow rules and style sheets.

Article 9- All natural and legal persons who engage in the construction and development of all kinds in the city, village, and drawn, should comply with regulations and practices related to separation, storage, and transport of construction wastes.

Article 10- sheriffdom should gather, transfer, and dispose of in way normal waste such as restaurants, gas stations, and other facilities by way of letters from the Ministry of the Interior.

Clause: tolls should cooperate with sheriffdoms in waste management policy on roads and places.

Article 11- All special waste-producing centers as well as producers included special normal waste components (residential) should separate special normal waste in place.

Article 12- Manufacturers and importers of items described below should recycle their wastes. If fails to act in this way, must pay as equal to half of thousands merchandise cost concurrent with sale or entry into the fund. The fund should back money of the recycling waste units was to the aforementioned items. Offenders will be sentenced based on forth in Article 16 of the law.

Polymeric compounds such as plastics, PEP, and tires
Goods made of glass, crystal
Objects made by simple metals and alloys
Objects made from wood and chipboard
Goods made from paper and cardboard
A variety of lubricating oils
Goods that at least are made by two forms of glass, metal, polymer, cellulose.
Appliances and Electronics
Construction materials from non-metallic minerals

Clause 1- Producing units using recycled raw materials will be exempt from paying the fee for using these materials.

Clause 2- Producing units that export their products or importers that returned their goods, will be exempt from paying the fee for each exported or returned goods.

Clause 3- Revision on the items and missionary shall be after discussing the proposal in the National Committee and the Committee of Minister’s approval.

Article 13- manufacturers, importers, and those responsible for packaging materials and products that lead to generating special wastes (such as pesticides and fertilizers) should insert how you use, storage, transportation, and disposal of solid waste and consumption, as well as objects contaminated by them after confirming the relevant authorities, on the packages.

Article 14- the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance have to prevent good importations with special wastes unauthorized through cargoes based on the announced list of organization.

Article 15- Organizations need to develop a list of goods that produce more waste or hard to recycling waste or hazardous waste and prepare procedure to manage them and declare to the relevant device.

Article 16- The Standards Institute should be developed within one year after the notification of this ordinance of the following standards:

Paper and recycling plastic standard, and authorized to use by technical and health aspects.
Organic fertilizers standards, especially compost derived from processing normal and agricultural waste.
Standards of facilities and equipment related to waste management such as waste incinerators and acceptable wastes from technical and health aspects.
Standard signs indicate the type of plastic and biodegradable plastic in nature
Another standard in cases suggested by the National Task Force recommendation.

Article 17- Recycling units that comply with environmental regulations Organization, will benefit from maximum facilities and activities for the construction of industrial units.

Clause 1- If you pay or receive any preferential rate subsidies to support a variety of chemical fertilizer, the compost products would equally benefit.

Clause 2- the Ministry of Energy has to purchase the electricity produced from recycled according to decree No. 33188. T 33188 dated on 29/6/2005.

Article 18- Management and Planning Organization should cooperate with relevant enforcement agencies in any case to recognize the jurisdiction of the competent natural and legal consultants and contractors.

Article 19- Special waste producers listed in Table (1) are required to reduce the amount or severity of waste under the above table and report their produced waste and capacity to the organization in the registration and declaration forms.

The above table can be adjusted with the proposal of the organization (National Committee) and approval of the Council of Ministers. Violators of the provisions of this Article will be sentenced by the maximum penalty provided for in Article 16 of the law.

The organization shall prepare relevant declaration forms within six months after the notification of this ordinance.

Table 1:

The subject of Article 19: waste amount and properties. Recent production waste up to 20% by weight of total oil production base oil waste treatment plants up to 2.5% by weight of the dry chlorine produced solid mercury waste, Chloric Alkali cell plants with up to 4 times the weight of the total waste production on acid liquidation procedure.

Article 20- All manufacturers, importers, and distributors of goods and materials must specify the amount and how to manage their waste as described in the declaration to the organization and relevant devices

Violators of the provisions will be sentenced provided in Article 16 of the law.

Article 21- Veterinary wastes as special agricultural wastes subject to Article 11 of the law.

Article 22- Organizations must comply with Article 11 of the law, based on the quantity and quality of special industrial waste, suitable disposal sites and proposed them to the ministries of interior and Industry.

Article 23- Organizations must determine the environmental regulations and landfill disposal sites in both special and ordinary wastes and notify the relevant agencies.

Article 24- the organization is the reference levels for normal and special wastes and determining the amount and hazardous factor concentration in waste.

Article 25- The relevant agencies should request for inquiry and approval of the Ministry of Energy in the field of not to affect water resources before issuing permission for landfills and waste.

Article 26- Management and Planning Organization should consider Clause (1) Article 12 of the law in service description advisory services supplier development plans.

Article 27- The Ministry of Health and Medical Education has to prepare and deliver notification of the regulations, criteria six months after the referred based on Article (5) of the Act.

Article 28- Executive waste management should use qualified experts (preferably environmental health and the environment) services.

Article 29- based on the authorities referred to Article 7, waste management Act to control emissions from waste transportation to water resources especially drinking water sources, prevent to dispose current wastes to stream channels, water sources and water reservoirs behind dams.

Article 30- Burning waste is prohibited in the environment or non-standard incinerators in contrary to related rules and procedures.

Article 31- discharging special waste in unauthorized places and vehicles discharging special wastes will be sentenced to the maximum penalties set out in Articles 16 and 20 of law.

Article 32- The organization should prepare a comprehensive waste database after one year of notification of the Rules of the procedure by collaboration with relevant organizations and corresponded executive managers.

Article 33- Inland transportation of special waste, followed by the executive regulations of hazardous materials transportation (issue the decree number 44870.t 22029 dated 18.03.2002 Council of Ministers) and its subsequent corrections.

Article 34- All natural and legal persons who carry out cross-border transportation of special waste must comply with the provisions of the Basel Convention and give information to the organization (National Reference Basel Convention). Natural and legal persons that do not comply with the provisions of the Convention or give false information to the organization will be sentenced to maximum penalties determined in Article 16 of the law.

Article 35- Marine litter and marine dredging materials subject to Annex V of the MARPOL Convention and the convention on the disposal of waste at sea and the national committee should consider regulations in a manner relevant to provisions of the Convention framework.

Article 36- The police force and officials of the organization, as well as officials at the Interior Ministry, municipalities, VA’s and county if trained the enforcement tasks under the supervision of the judiciary and prosecutors fall in a row enforcement Judiciary in terms of regulations and practices of law enforcement and a consequent. Ministries of Interior and Justice should provide ways to educate, formulate, and develop the agent’s mode of action. Officers of the ministry of health and medical education, the ministry of agriculture, and the ministry of energy need to identify, report, and track violations of law related to this action.

Article 37- organizations referred to in article 6 of the act, should implement assignments, set the annual plan, and the necessary funds anticipated to be included in the budget law.

Article 38- Management and planning organizations should forecast sufficient funds for the implementation of the regulations on the draft budget.

Article 39- Agencies under Article 21 are included: Ministry of Interior (County), the country’s municipalities and RMs (municipal and RMs), department of environment, ministry of agriculture, ministry of industry and mines, ministry of health and medical education, and the ministry of roads and transportation