L6 - PROCEDURE STANDARDIZATION IN PERMANENT SECURITY AND RECLAMATION OF LANDFILLS, ACCORDING TO EUROPEAN COMMISSION CRITERIA IN PROCEEDINGS TERMINATION OF PROCEDURES NOT CONFORMING TO THE WASTE DIRECTIVE

After the election of an extraordinary government commissioner for illegal landfills in March 2017, the line of intervention establishes support to the regions affected by the presence of landfills in infringement proceedings (Abruzzo, Calabria, Campania, Lazio, Puglia, Sicily, Tuscany, Veneto). The goal is to avoid further infringement procedures regarding landfills management and closing, ensuring compliance with the European directives as implemented in the national legal system. Together with this, the regulated sites will be allocated to a new use for social purposes (recreational areas, parks, sites for waste management, renewable energy areas).

In the first phase, the following actions were activated to monitor the current procedure progress in remediation closing, requested by the European Commission: procedure status screening for each landfill under infringement process, data and information collection, critical issues identification, and common action lines establishment in order to resolve similar procedures. According to collected data and information (in a second phase) case studies and good practices in "landfill management" are identified through specific research activities (also through questionnaires). The objective is to collect information regarding the creation and identification of the illegal landfill, together with the related condemnation. Guidelines will be collected in a document addressed to the above-mentioned Regions to obtain the expected results.

Expected results

• Skills enhancement within those Administrations responsible for territory safeguarding in preventing illegal landfills formations.

• Make landfill sites regulated, compliant, and free from the infringement procedure, to make them reusable for social purposes.