HP criteria

Do you want to classify the hazardous nature of your waste according to the regulations in force?

Do you want to characterise your marine or continental sediments as part of a dredging operation?

The laboratory Eurofins Ecotoxicologie France provides the elements you need to tackle these issues with a comprehensive offer that includes all the tests needed to define the HP criteria.

Regulations

The waste hazard characterisation system is described in Directive 2008/98/EC of 19 November 2008, known as the Waste Framework Directive. Its appendix III defines the 15 properties that make waste hazardous, and the decision of 3 May 2000 (2000/532/EC) completes this text, specifying the criteria for evaluating these properties. These two texts were the subject of a review at European level, which resulted in the publication, on 18 December 2014, of two new texts, applicable on 1 June 2015:

regulation 1357/2014/EU, replacing appendix III of directive 2008/98/EC; and
decision 2014/955/EU, amending the decision of 3 May 2000.

The classification of the hazard property of waste is done:

by assigning a code from the European waste list;
by using known data about the waste;
otherwise, by the HP properties (only 1 positive is needed for the waste to be classified as hazardous).

These regulations were adapted through a "hazardous sediment" working group set up and coordinated by the MEEDDM (Ministry of Ecology) and the DGPR (General Directorate for Risk Prevention) as part of a co-organisation with the BRGM (Office of Geological and Mining Research).

Our analytical offer

Our laboratory provides the support you need by offering tailor-made analytical services: bibliography, bioassays, physico-chemical characterisations, analysis reports and classification decision-making support.

We cover all 15 HP properties according to the INERIS-DRC-15-149793-06416A report of 4 February 2016 "Regulatory classification of waste – application guide for characterising the hazard property."

HP1: Explosive
HP2: Oxidising
HP3: Flammable
HP4: Irritant – Skin irritation and eye damage
HP5: Specific toxicity
HP6: Acute toxicity
HP7: Carcinogenic
HP8: Corrosive
HP9: Infectious
HP10: Toxic for reproduction
HP11: Mutagenic
HP12: Release of an acute toxic gas
HP13: Sensitising
HP14: Ecotoxic
HP15: Aforementioned hazardous properties not present in the original waste

HP 14 criterion on waste

HP14 "Ecotoxic": substances and preparations that present or may present immediate or delayed risks for one or more components of the environment.

Our laboratory performs all the tests of the protocol in force proposed by the INERIS report of 4 February 2016. A single positive response to one of these bioassays is enough to characterise the waste as ecotoxic.

Indirect approach, study on leaching eluates
- Daphnia: mobility of Daphnia Magna – NF EN ISO 6341
- Algae: growth of Pseudokirchneriella Subcapitata – ISO 8692
- Microtox: luminescence of Vibrio Fischeri – NF EN ISO 11348-3
- Cerodaphnias: reproduction of Ceriodaphnia Dubia – NF ISO 20665

Direct approach, study on the raw sample
- Earthworms: mortality of Eisenia fetida – ISO 11268-1
- Plants: emergence and growth of Latuca sativa – ISO 11269-2

HP 14 criterion on sediment

HP14 "Ecotoxic": substances and preparations that present or may present immediate or delayed risks for one or more components of the environment.

Our laboratory performs all the tests of the protocol in force proposed by the working group "hazardous nature of sediments" of the MEEDDM (4 February 2016). A single positive response to one of these bioassays is enough to characterise the sediment as ecotoxic.

Indirect approach, study on leaching eluates
- Microtox: luminescence of Vibrio Fischeri – NF EN ISO 11348-3
- Rotifers: inhibition of the growth of Brachionus calicyflorus – NF ISO 20666
Direct approach, study on the raw sample
- Plants: germination and growth of Avena sativa – ISO 11269-2

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