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Type of
Classification
Input
material
LT Precaution
heavy metals
LU Application
use type
LV Precaution
heavy metals
Application
as fertiliser
nutrients
Number
of
Classes
Original English
[P] = Product
[W] = Waste
1 n.d. Mixed Waste
Compost [W]
Designation Description of Classes Reference legislation or standard
The use of MWC based on this old national decree is not
considered to be used anymore but the decree is still in
force. Application is limited to brown fields, street
construction and landfill restoration
1 [P] Compost must be accompanied with a certificate of its
quality and properties.
4 Frischkompost Fresh compost
[P]
Fertigkompost Mature compost
[P]
Substratkompost Substrate
compost [P]
Mulchkompost Mulch compost
[P]
Food and non food application mainly in agriculture;
decomposition degree I & II (of V)
Food and non food application; decomposition degree IV &
V (of V)
Constituent for growing media; decomposition degree V (+
further criteria: limited content of soluble plant nutrients
and salt);
Low portion of fine particles for soil coverage;
decomposition degree: no requirements but after
hygienisation;
1 [P] Compost from green and kitchen waste has to be certified
as organic fertiliser
Total N, total P (P 2O 5), total K (K 2O), humidity, organic
matter, pH
There are no direct legislation demands to compost
production from bio waste and its usage. There are indirect
rules for the treatment of sludge and their compost 1
(including methods of taking the examples and providing of
the analyses from sludge and its compost) or registration
and sale of organic fertilisers 2 (including methods of taking
the examples and providing the analyses of organic
1 Cabinet Regulation No. 362 “Regulations on utilisation, monitoring and control of sewage sludge and its compost” 02.05.2005
2 Cabinet Regulation No. 530 “ Regulations on identification, quality, conformity and sale of fertilisers” 25.06.2006
3 Cabinet Regulation No. 820 “ The methodology for taking and preparing of control copies from fertiliser materials” 03.10..2006.
4 Regulations on the receiving EC eco labeling on substrates, http://www.meteo.lv/public/ekomarkejums.html
COMPOST PRODUCTION AND USE IN THE EU
Reference standard statutory
voluntary
[S]; [V]
DPR 915/82 - DCI 27/7/84 V
Requirements for the composting of
biowaste, approved by the Ministry
of environment 25 th Jan. 2007, No.
D1-57
Only individual licensing of plants
which requires a quality assurance
system like the one in Germany. .
Quality Standard RAL GZ 251
within the Quality Assurance
System of the German Bundesgütegemeinschaft
Kompost e.V. BGK
dto S
Cabinet Regulation No. 530 “
Regulations on identification,
quality, conformity and sale of
fertilisers” 25.06.2006
S
S
S
S
n.d.