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Document Provided by Latvia CONFERENCE ON ACCESSION Brussels, 18 September 2001 TO THE EUROPEAN UNION -LATVIA- CONF-LV 56/01 ADD 3 Document provided by Latvia 20593/01 ADD 3 CONF-LV 56/01 ADD 3 1 EN ANNEX9 .. DIRECTIVE SPECIFIC IMPLEMENTATION AND FINANCING PLAN (Council Directive 1999/31/EC of26 Apri/1999 on the landfill ofwaste) Ministry ofEnvironrnental Protection and Regional Development Investment Department Republic of Latvia 16 July 2001 20593/01 ADD 3 CONF-L V 56/01 ADD 3 2 EN TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1 INTRODUCTION 5 1.1 Requirements of Directive 6 1.1.1 Article 4, Classes of landfill 6 1.1.2 Article 5, Waste and treatment not acceptable in landfills 6 1.1.3 Article 6, Waste to be accepted in the different classes of landfill 7 1.1.4 Article 7, Application for a permit 7 1.1.5 Article 8, Conditions of the permit 7 1.1. 6 Article 9, Content of the permit 7 1.1. 7 Article 10, Cost of the landfill of waste 7 1.1.8 Article 11, Waste acceptance procedures 8 1.1.9 Article 12, Control and monitoring procedures in the operational phase8 1.1.10 Article 13, Closure and aftercare procedures 8 1.1.11 Article 14, Existing landfill sites 8 1.1.12 Annex I, General requirements for all classes of landfills 9 1.1.13 Annex II, Waste acceptance criteria and procedures 9 1.1.14 Annex III, Control and monitoring procedures in operation and after-care phases 9 1.2 Summary of transition time required 9 2 STEPS REQUIRED FOR FULL IMPLEMENTATION 10 2.1 Current status of practical compliance, legislative, institutional, gaps in implementation 10 2.1.1 Current status of practical compliance 10 2.1.2 Legislative and institutional gaps in implementation 10 2.2 To complete legislatin transposition 13 2.3 To complete institutional arrangements to comply with Directive's requirements 14 2.4 "Long list" of projects required to fully implement the Directive 14 2.4.1 Talsi, Janvari landfill 15 2.4.2 Riga, Getlini landfill 16 2.4.3 Liepaja, Grobina landfill 16 2.4.4 Ventspils, Pentuli landfill 16 2.4.5 North-Vidzeme, Daibe landfill 17 2.5 Balance between public and private investments needed 17 2.5.1 State budget, special budget and budget of municipalities 18 2.5.2 Bilateral and other donors 18 2.5.3 Loans 20 3 STRATEGY FOR IMPLEMENTATION 22 3.1 Context of the strategy: socio-economic issues and institutional factors 22 3.1.1 Socio-economic issues 22 3.1.2 Investments in environmental protection 22 3.2 Proposed scenario(s) for full implementation, and assumptions 23 3 .2.1 Legal transposition of requirements of the Directive 23 3 .2.2 Practical implementation of the directive 23 3.3 Roles ofvarious actors and responsibilities for investments 24 Landfill Directive Strategy (16-7-2001) 20593/01 ADD 3 CONF-LV 56/01 ADD 3 3 EN 3.3.1 Roles of various actors in management of municipal waste 24 3.3 .2 Responsibilities for investments 25 3.4 Institutional development plan 26 3.4.1 Preparation and start-up of data collection system 26 3.4.2 Preparation of waste management plans 27 3.4.3 Development of institutions in the scope of regional municipal waste management projects 27 3.5 Approach to project prioritisation and implementation 27 4 FINANCING COSTS OF IMPLEMENTATION 30 4.1 Estimated costs of implementation under selected scenario 30 4.2 Timetable for implementation 32 4.3 Annual costs over proposed period of implementation of investment capital, operation & maintenance costs 32 4.4 Sources of finance 32 4.5 Analysis of affordability on national, municipal and household levels 33 4.5.1 Analysis ofaffordability on national level 33 4.5.2 Analysis of affordability at household level 34 5 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN 35 5.1 Key steps and assumptions 35 5.2 Short term, medium term and long term initiatives (including a short list of priority projects) 35 5.3 Time table for full implementation (target date and milestones) 36 5.4 Measures for supervising and monitoring implementation 36 5.4 .1 Overall measures 36 5.4.2 EU Phare and ISPA related measures 38 5.4.3 Supervision and monitoring ofEU funded projects 39 6 REFERENCES 41 ANNEX I TERMS OF REFERENCE "MULTI-YEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR LATVIA" 43 ANNEX II SCHEME OF PROJECT DEVELOPMENT 51 ANNEX IIIUPDATED MSW-SCENARIO 1996-2012 52 ANNEX IV TOTAL INVESTMENTS BY SOURCES 1995-2012 54 Landfill Directive Strategy (16-7-2001) 20593/01 ADD 3 CONF-LV 56/01 ADD 3 4 EN 1 INTRODUCTION In its Position Paper of 8 November 2000 with the following Amendments of 23 May 2001, Latvia states the following about its position on the Landfill Directive (99/31/EC): Taking into account the foregoing, Latvia is changing its position and withdraws its request for transitional period on directive 99/31/EC on the landfill of waste and will achieve compliance or closure of the existing landfills until the date stipulated in Article 14 of the Directive. 70% of the population will be involved in the centralised municipal waste management system already by the year 2006, but all landfills will be in line with EU requirements till the middle of2009. Till this year aftercare and remediation activities will be finished for 50%. of the existing dumpsites and till2012 - for all existing dumpsites. As a justification, the following has been formulated: Establishment ofmunicipal waste landfills and waste collection system requires 340 million EUR (190 million LVL, 1EUR=0,56 LVL). It is foreseen to build 10-12 new municipal waste landfills and to place them in different regions ofLatvia. The transitional period is necessary to attract the investment and to-accomplish the procedures related to the chosen locations - EIA and consultations with public, that often prolongs the project implementation. In the Conference on Accession to the European Union- Latvia (21 February 2001), the EU reacts as follows on the Position Paper of Latvia: The EU takes furthermore note ofLatvia's request for a transitional period until 31 December 2015 under Directive 99/31 IEC on the landfill ofwaste. Since Latvia's request is not specified in its scope and not accompanied by an implementation plan the EU urges Latvia to provide information on transposition, and without prejudice to the question ofa transitional period, to reassess the scope and duration ofits request, taking into account the different deadlines set in the Directive for hazardous and non-hazardous waste and the particular importance ofappropriate management of hazardous waste. Furthermore, the EU invites Latvia to accelerate the establishment ofan implementation plan, including information on measures to ensure treating waste before landfilling, phasing out co-disposal ofhazardous waste and non-hazardous waste and controls over site­ closure and after care and to present it to the Conference, together with an implementation timetable, cost assessments and sources offinancing andfurther justification for the request. In addition, Latvia is invited to provide information on how it intends to avoid negative impact of possible future waste streams on the environment, including waste management. The reaction of the EU resulted in the preparation of this Directive Specific Implementation and Financing Plan (DSIFP) for the 99/31/EC with exception of the management of hazardous waste. The reasons to exclude hazardous waste from this DSIFP are the following: Hazardous waste management is State responsibility, and therefore does not involve so complicated institutional and financing schemes as is the case for the management of municipal waste; It is planned to develop only one h~ardous waste landfill. This cannot be compared to 10- 12landfills and improved waste management systems planned for municipal solid waste. 20593/01 ADD 3 CONF-LV 56/01 ADD 3 5 EN The most important institutional factor that influences the strategy for the implementation of Directive 99/31/EC is related to the municipalities as they will be ensuring the practical compliance with the requirements of the Directive. At the moment there are 561 municipalities which are responsible for the organisation of municipal waste management service in their administrative territories. Most of these municipalities have a small number of inhabitants and rather limited possibilities for the development of waste management plans. However it is planned to have an administrative territorial reform by the end of2002. This reform could certainly have a positive influence on the implementation of the Directive. The DSIFP ofDirective 99/31/EC contains an analysis ofthe requirements ofDirective 99/31/EC and relevant waste legislation of Latvia, the existing institutional structure, a strategy for implementing the Directive in Latvia, including the development of legislation and improvement of the institutional framework. 1.1 Requirements of Directive In this section, the requirements of the Directive on the Landfill of waste are presented per relevant article. 1.1.1 Article 4, Classes of landfill Distinction between landfills for hazardous waste, non-hazardous waste and inert waste. As indicated above the focus here will be on non-hazardous waste. 1.1.2 Article 5, Waste and treatment not acceptable in landfills Setting up a national strategy for the implementation of the reduction of biodegradable waste going to landfills (before 16 July 2003). The national strategy should include the following targets: Before 16 July 2006: reduction of biodegradable municipal waste going to landfills to 75% of the total amount (by weight) ofbiodegradable municipal waste produced in 1995 or the latest year before 1995 for which standardised Eurostat data is available; _ Before 16 July 2009: reduction of biodegradable municipal waste going to landfills to 50%; Before 16 July 2016: reduction of biodegradable municipal waste going to landfills to 35%.
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