Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics Evaluation of Pilot studies Karin Jordan E 3 Meeting of the Working Group "Statistics of the Environment“ Sub-Group "Waste" 27 and 28 April 2006 Jean MONNET Building – Room M6

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 2 Evaluation of pilot studies Follow up of sub-group meeting October 2005 Waste management in agriculture, forestry and fisheries Statistics on import and export of waste

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 3 Waste management in agriculture, forestry and fisheries Waste categories to be included in waste statistics Bio-organic residues Breakdown of waste categories Waste treatment operations

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 4 Bio-organic residues (1) All bio-organic residues are waste 2) Exclusion of: Residues as part of natural cycle: straw, felling residues, animal/ fish guts, discarded fish + (3) Exclusion of: Manure re-used in within the same agricultural holding + (4) Exclusion of: Manure applied on any farm land

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 5 Bio-organic residues (1) All bio-organic residues are waste clear coverage concept but consideration as waste debatable and high data collection burden Exclusion of 2) Residues as part of natural cycle: Clarification needed on residues excluded Data collection burden reduced (3) Manure applied on own land Data collection on amount leaving the agricultural holding difficult Possible via exchange service/ estimation + Exclusion of (4) Manure applied on any farm land Data collection on manure treated in waste treatment facilities and exported

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 6 Breakdown of waste categories Is the statistical classification of waste detailed enough? EWCStatLoWDefinitionFurther specification (expert names) Animal-tissue wasteAnimal guts Plant-tissues wasteResidues of plants and harvesting Waste from plants in nurseries Waste plastics (except packaging)Fishing nets and lines, Plastics (films) Tubing from plastics in nurseries *Agrochemical waste containing dangerous substances Residues of fertilizers and pesticides Metals (including their alloys)Discarded fences of metal *Wastes … prevent infectionInfected dead animals Waste ammunition Wastes not otherwise specifiedRock wool substrate matting

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 7 Breakdown of waste categories Options: (1)Reporting is done according to current breakdown (2)Additional waste categories are necessary for reporting on NACE A and B No proposals for additional waste categories

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 8 Waste treatment operations Reporting on waste treatment facilities: Option1: All technical facilities should be included fitting to the relevant R and D codes. Option 2: Only those facilities from option 1 should be included which are not only utilising residuals from the own holding All replies were in favour of option 2

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 9 Statistics on import and export of waste Options for methodological approaches: Option 1: Use of Foreign trade statistics Option 2: Combination of Foreign trade statistics with other sources Option 3: Use of other sources than Foreign trade statistics Option 4: Use the Eurostat database COMEXT on Foreign trade statistics as data source

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 10 Statistics on import and export of waste Registering of waste imports and exports mainly on FTS basis B) Waste or product streams covered by FTS and partially by WShipR C) Waste streams covered by WShipR Preferred Option Option C1: Integration of WShipR reporting into WStatR reporting Short term solution B3) Utilisation of CN data even if there are overlaps and products included Long term solution B2) Modification of CN for reaching better differentiation between wastes and products