With the purpose of a better alignment of the Cypriot legislative framework with Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste, the Council of Ministers, in the exercise of the powers vested in it by section 5 of the Solid and Hazardous Waste Law of 2002-2006, hereby makes the present Regulations. These Regulations shall be read in conjunction with the Solid and Hazardous Waste (Waste Disposal Sites) Regulations of 2003 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Regulations”). The principal and