The Act defines the duties and responsibilities of waste generators, municipalities and state authorities, and requires all actors concerned to regularly develop waste management programmes (OECD, 2002). Over the last decade, it has been amended repeatedly to adjust to EU legislation. Other regulatory instruments, concerning end-of-life vehicles, packaging, and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), have been adopted to transpose EU directives. Because of political changes and organisational restructuring, Slovakia missed the deadline for transposing the 2008 Waste Framework Directive into national law.