Fourth Amendment to the General Waste Management Regime

Decree-Law no. 81/2025 was published on May 22, amending (fourth) the General Waste Management Regime, approved by Decree-Law no. 102-D/2020, of December 10 (“RGGR”).

Significant changes are introduced in the structural concepts of the RGGR, in the waste management liability regime, in planning and management tools, in the prevention of food waste production, in the selective collection of waste, in the hazardous waste regime and in the transition regime from the classification of waste to the product.

Decree-Law no. 81/2025 thus aims to ensure the full and complete transposition of Directive (EU) 2018/851 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of May 30, 2018, in order to close the infringement process that, in this context, was initiated by the European Commission against Portugal.

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