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Definitions For the purposes and within the framework of this Regulation:

(a) ‘waste’ shall mean any substance or object as defined in Article 1(a) of Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1975 on waste ();

(b) ‘separately collected fractions of waste’ shall mean household and similar waste, selectively collected in homogeneous fractions by public services, non-profit organisations and private enterprises acting in the field of organised waste collection;

(c) ‘recycling’ shall have the same meaning as in the definition given in Article 3(7) of European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste ();

(d) ‘recovery’ shall mean any of the operations provided for in Annex II.B to Directive 75/442/EEC;

(e) ‘disposal’ shall mean any of the operations provided for in Annex II.A to Directive 75/442/EEC;

(f) ‘recovery or disposal facility’ shall mean a facility that requires a permit or registration pursuant to Articles 9, 10 or 11 of Directive 75/442/EC;

(g) ‘hazardous waste’ shall mean any waste as defined in Article 1(4) of Council Directive 91/689/EEC of 12 December 1991 on hazardous waste ();

(h) ‘non-hazardous waste’ shall mean waste which is not covered by point (g);

(i) ‘incineration’ shall mean thermal treatment of waste in an incineration plant as defined in Article 3(4) or a co-incineration plant as defined in Article 3(5) of Directive 2000/76/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 December 2000 on the incineration of waste ();

(j) ‘landfill’ shall mean a waste disposal site as defined in Article 2(g) of Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste ();

(k) ‘capacity of waste incineration facilities’ shall mean the maximum capacity to incinerate waste, in tonnes per annum or in gigajoules;

(l) ‘capacity of waste recycling facilities’ shall mean the maximum capacity to recycle waste, in tonnes per annum;

(m) ‘capacity of landfills’ shall mean the remaining capacity (at the end of the data reference year) of the landfill facility to dispose of waste in the future, measured in cubic metres;

(n) ‘capacity of other disposal facilities’ shall mean the capacity of the facility to dispose of waste, measured in tonnes per annum.