Pursuant to sections 25B and 66A of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 (“the Act”), the Environmental Protection Authority gives the following notice.

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1. Title—This notice is the Hazardous Substances (Disposal of Persistent Organic Pollutants) Notice 2015.

2. Commencement—This notice comes into force on 4 June 2015.

3. Purpose—The purpose of this notice is to extend the definition of environmentally sound disposal beyond the definitions provided in the Hazardous Substances (Storage and Disposal of Persistent Organic Pollutants) Notice 2004, and the Hazardous Substances (Storage and Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls) Notice 2007.

4. Interpretation—In this notice, environmentally sound disposal in relation to a persistent organic pollutant means disposal in accordance with clause 5 of the Hazardous Substances (Storage and Disposal of Persistent Organic Pollutants) Notice 2004, or clause 9 of the Hazardous Substances (Storage and Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls) Notice 2007, as well as disposal in accordance with clause 5(a) of this notice.

5. Disposal of persistent organic pollutants—For the purposes of sections 29B(1)(b) and 66A of the Act, the following method shall comprise environmentally sound disposal of persistent organic pollutants:

(a) by importing the substance to New Zealand for subsequent export from New Zealand as waste for environmentally sound disposal provided that such export complies with the relevant requirements of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the OECD Decision C(2001)107 on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Wastes Destined for Recovery Operations.

Dated this 28th day of May 2015.

ASELA ATAPATTU, Applications Manager (Hazardous Substances), Environmental Protection Authority.

Note: This notice replaces and revokes the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, 3 July 2014, No. 70, page 1982.