The judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on Thursday 28 March in Joined Cases C-487/17, C-488/17 and C-489/17 that if it is impossible to analyse the hazardousness of a waste, the professional holder of such a waste must classify it as dangerous under the precautionary principle.
Waste treatment professionals are subject to criminal proceedings in Italy for offences related to the treatment of hazardous waste. This is because they assigned codes for...