Licence opinion from Advocate General

Archiv – Advocate General Francis Jacobs has given his opinion on a waste export licence row between the Dutch environment ministry and Verol Recycling Limburg, the European Court of Justice has revealed.Advocate General Francis Jacobs has given his opinion on a waste export licence row between the Dutch environment ministry and Verol Recycling Limburg, the European Court of Justice has revealed.
The company had applied to send waste to cement kilns in Belgium where it was to be incinerated as a fuel, with a proportion converted into cement in the process. According to the environment ministry, the fact that less than half the waste was to be re-used rendered this a disposal operation. For his part, Mr Jacobs stated that the material’s use as a fuel in cement kilns represented a recovery operation.