The Directive does not apply to:
the spreading on the soil of sludges (including sewage sludges and sludges resulting from dredging operations);
the use in landfills of inert waste for redevelopment or restoration work;
the deposit of unpolluted soil or of non-hazardous inert waste resulting from prospecting and extraction, treatment and storage of mineral resources as well as from the operation of quarries;
the deposit of non-hazardous dredging sludges alongside small waterways from which they have been dredged and of non-hazardous sludges in surface water, including the bed and its subsoil.
A standard procedure for the acceptance of waste in a landfill is laid down so as to avoid any risks, including:
waste must be treated before being landfilled;
hazardous waste within the meaning of the Directive must be assigned to a hazardous waste landfill;
landfills for non-hazardous waste must be used for municipal waste and for other non-hazardous waste;
landfill sites for inert waste must be used only for inert waste;
criteria for the acceptance of waste at each landfill class must be adopted by the Commission in accordance with the general principles of Annex II.
The following wastes may not be accepted in a landfill: