Mining for Closure: Policies, practises and guidelines for sustainable mining and closure of mines

appendix b key european union information resources details and links for a number of key eu documents mentioned in the report are included here

a. Proposed “mine waste directive”

c. Pecomines’ reports

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).

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: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/com/pdf/ 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 http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/ 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 .

Available at: http://viso.ei.jrc.it/pecomines_ext/index.html

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)

For more information on the Convention go to: http:// www.unece.org/env/teia/

The details of all BREFs are available for download at: http://eippcb.jrc.es/pages/FActivities.htm

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