Publication of Hazardous and Other Wastes.

Publication of Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Amendment Rules, 2026

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EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 577] NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2026/ASHADHA 25, 1948

MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 16th July, 2026

G.S.R. 636(E).— Whereas sub-rule (4) of the rule 5 of the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986 provides that
whenever it appears to the Central Government that it is in the public interest to do so, it may dispense with the
requirement of notice under clause (a) of sub-rule (3) of rule 5 of the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986;
And Whereas the Central Government is of the opinion that it is in the public interest to dispense with the
requirement of notice under clause (a) of sub-rule (3) of rule 5 of the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986 for amending
the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016.

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6, 8 and 25 of the Environment (Protection)
Act, 1986 (29 of 1986) read with sub-rule (4) of rule 5 of the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, the Central
Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and
Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016, namely :—

1. (1) These rules may be called the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement)
Amendment Rules, 2026.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016, in Schedule I,
in the Table, against S.No. 16, under the heading ‘‘Processes’’ in column (2), ‘‘Production of caustic soda and
chlorine’’, in column (3), the entry, ‘‘16.3 Brine sludge’’ shall be omitted.

[F. No. 23/151/2022-HSM]
UDAY CHAUDHARY, Jt. Secy.

Note. — The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i),
vide number G.S.R. 395(E), dated the 4th April, 2016 and last amended vide the notification number
G.S.R. 438(E), dated the 1st July, 2025.

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