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WASTE MANAGEMENT: The characteristic activities of waste management include: collection, transport, storage, treatment, recovery and disposal of waste, including monitoring the discharge sites after the respective facilities have been closed down, as well as planning these activities. Waste management aims, above all, to prevent or reduce the harmfulness of waste, namely through recycling and changing the production processes, by adopting cleaner technologies, as well as alerting the economic agents and the consumers. In terms of subsidies, waste management aims at recovering waste, namely through recycling or disposing of it in the appropriate manner.
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ECONOMIC ACTIVITY: Combination of resources such as labour, raw materials, equipment, etc., are joined, leading to the creation of specific goods or services. Regardless of the factors of production integrating the good or service produced, all activities generically imply an input of products (goods or services), a production process and an output of products (goods or services).
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ECONOMIC TERRITORY: Territory that consists on: (a) the geographic territory administered by a government within which persons, goods, services and capital move freely; (b) any free zones, including bonded warehouses and factories under customs control; (c) the national air-space, territorial waters and the continental shelf lying in international waters, over which the country enjoys exclusive rights; (d) territorial enclaves (i.e. geographic territories situated in the rest of the world and used, under international treaties or agreements between States, by general government agencies of the country (embassies, consulates, military bases, scientific bases, etc.); (e) deposits of oil, natural gas, etc., in international waters outside the continental shelf of the country, worked by units resident in the territory as defined in the preceding subparagraphs.
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DISPOSAL OF WASTE: Any operation which is not recovery even when the operation has as a secondary consequence the reclamation of substances or energy.
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HAZARDOUS WASTE: Waste which displays one or more of the hazardous properties listed in current legislation.
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SECTORIAL WASTE: Waste produced within economic activities with production processes that generate waste different from waste generated by families in their homes.
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RECOVERY OF WASTE: Any operation the principal result of which is: a) waste serving a useful purpose by replacing other materials which would otherwise have been used to fulfil a particular function; b) waste being prepared to fulfil that function, in the plant or in the wider economy.
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WASTE: Any substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard, according Waste Framewok Directive
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REFERENCE PERIOD: Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
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