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a. Proposed “mine waste directive”
Proposal for a Directive Of The European Parliament And
Of The Council on the management of waste from the ex-
tractive industries COM(2003) 319 final 2003/0107 (COD).
Available at:
2003/com2003_0319en01.pdf
b. Seveso II directive
The so-called Seveso II Directive or Council Directive
96/82/EC on the control of major-accident hazards (OJ No L
10 of 14 January 1997) is available, with detail background
material at
seveso/
The Seveso II Directive is considered as the legal and
technical instrument to fulfil the obligations of the Euro-
pean Community arising out of The UN/ECE Convention
on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents.
For more information on the Convention go to: http://
c. Pecomines’ reports
PECOMINES JRC Enlargement report
Mining, Mining Waste and Related Environmental Issues:
ProblemsandSolutionsinCentralandEasternEuropeanCan-
didate Countries (Editors: G. Jordan and M. D’Alessandro)
EUR 21185 EN report
Use of Remote sensing for Mapping and Evaluation of
Mining Waste Anomalies at National to Multi-Country
Scale (Authors: A.M Videa, S. Sommer, and W.Mehl)
EUR21186EN report
Options for compiling an inventory of mining waste sites
throughout Europe (Editor: S. Sommer)
Available at:
d. BREF document on “mine waste”
The so-called “Mine waste BREF” document Reference
Document on Best Available Techniques for Management of
Tailings and Waste-Rock in Mining Activities (ST/EIPPCB/
MTWR_BREF_FINAL)
The details of all BREFs are available for download at:
appendix b
key european union information
resources
details and links for a number of key eu documents mentioned in
the report are included here