PURPOSE : codification of the legislation on waste.
CONTENT : the purpose of this proposal is to undertake a codification of Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1975 on waste (Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council - Codification of the Acquis communautaire, COM(2001) 645 final).
The new Directive will supersede the various acts incorporated in it; this proposal fully preserves the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them together with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself.�