Nuevo marco para la caracterización y clasificación del material dragado en España

After more than 20 years implementing the “Recommendations for the management of dredged material in Spanish ports” 1994 and taking into account both technical and scientific advances as well as the entry into force of new legislation in the European and Spanish contexts, in the process of implementation of the Spanish Law 41/2010 on the Protection of the Marine Environment, the Interministerial Commission for Marine Strategies adopted in April 2014 the “Guidelines for the characterization of dredged material and their relocation within waters of the maritime-terrestrial public domain”. These Guidelines should be applied for all the projects developed in the Spanish harbours from them.

This article reviews the main contents of this new management framework for dredged material in Spain and emphasizes the main differences with the former framework used in Spain. In the conclusions section, it is highlighted the methodological improvements and the problems solved, according the authors opinion, regarding the previous framework used.