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Best Available Techniques (BAT) Reference Document for the Management of Waste from Extractive Industries in accordance with Directive 2006/21/EC

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This document, Best Available Techniques Reference Document for the Management of Waste from Extractive Industries, in accordance with Directive 2006/21/EC, abbreviated as MWEI BREF, is a review of the Reference Document for Management of Tailings and Waste-Rock in Mining Activities (MTWR BREF). This review is the result of an exchange of information between experts from EU Member States, industries concerned, non-governmental organisations promoting environmental protection and the European Commission. The reviewed document presents up-dated data and information on the management of waste from extractive industries, including information on BAT, associated monitoring, and developments in them. It is published by the European Commission pursuant Article 21(3) of Directive 2006/21/EC on the management of waste from extractive industries. This document presents data and information on the following: - General information and key figures on extractive industries in Europe, extractive waste generation, extractive waste facilities and key environmental issues (Chapter 1). - Applied processes and techniques for the management of extractive waste (Chapter 2). - Emission and consumption levels resulting from the management of extractive waste (Chapter 3). - Techniques to consider in the determination of Best Available Techniques (Chapter 4). This includes generic management and waste hierarchy techniques, risk-specific techniques to ensure safety, techniques for the prevention or minimisation of water status deterioration, techniques for the prevention or minimisation of air and soil pollution and other risk-specific techniques. - Best available techniques conclusions (Chapter 5). - Emerging techniques (Chapter 6). This includes techniques that were reported at different levels of technology readiness. - Remarks and recommendations for future work (Chapter 7).
2018-12-17
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC109657
978-92-79-77179-8 (print),    978-92-79-77178-1,   
1018-5593 (print),    1831-9424 (online),   
EUR 28963 EN,    OP KJ-NA-28963-EN-C (print),    OP KJ-NA-28963-EN-N (online),   
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC109657,   
10.2760/35297 (online),    10.2760/201200 (print),   
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