1. Karen B. Kristensen, M.A. European Topic Centre on Resource and Waste Management Under contract with the European Environment Agency

2. 2 Outline of presentation The Topic Centre The world of the EEA ETC/RWM activities ETC/RWM, Turkey and the West Balkans IMPEL relevant success stories Various information sources

3. 3 What is a Topic Centre? ETCs: consortia of national institutions work under contract with the European Environment Agency (EEA) assistance within a particular topic (resources and waste in our case) existed since 1997

4. 4 Who is the Topic Centre? Italian EPA Danish EPA Wuppertal Institute Regional Environ- mental Centre Austrian EPA Environment Agency for England and Wales Estonian Environment Information Centre

5. 5 What are the resources? 10 full-time staff in Copenhagen 11 part-time staff with partners Annual budget: EUR 800,000 (incl. 10% national contribution)

6. 6 European Environment Agency ‘The EEA aims to support sustainable development and help to achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe’s environment through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to the policy making agents and the public’

7. 7 Eionet Eionet is the network of the EEA: National Focal Points – (one in each country) National Reference Centres – (experts within a field) European Topic Centres – (resource and waste management, air, water, terrestrial environment as well as nature and biodiversity)

8. 8 Eionet

9. 9 Work areas Data processing and data management Indicators and fact sheets Support to policy processes Policy analysis and assessment Knowledge sharing Support to member countries

10. 10 Data processing and data management The ETCs do not collect data Data from Eurostat, DGEnv, Basel Convention Regulation on Waste Statistics important in the future Close cooperation with DGEnv and Eurostat – Overlapping reporting obligations

11. 11 Draft list of ETC/RWM indicators Direct Material Input (DMI) Direct Material Consumption (DMC) Generation of municipal waste Generation of packaging waste Total generation of waste Generation of industrial waste Generation of hazardous waste Waste recovery by operation categories Waste disposal, specific waste streams Landfilling of biodegradable municipal waste GHG emissions from waste recovery and disposal EEA CSI

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15. 15 Manufacturing waste generation in Western Europe and Central Eastern Europe

16. 16 Manufacturing waste generation/gross value added in the manufacturing sector

17. 17 Trends in generation of manufacturing waste per capita

18. 18 Trends in manufacturing waste generation per gross value added in the manufacturing sector

19. 19 Policy analysis and assessments Use of economic instruments in resource policies Assessment of effect of present EU legislation – Landfill and Incineration Directives

20. 20 Support to member countries Support to Turkey Support to West Balkan Eionet – newsletter – annual Eionet workshop

21. 21 ETC/RWM, Turkey and the West Balkans The two projects concern the setting up of a national waste data collection and information system to enable the countries to report according to EU and international requirements in the future Knowledge-sharing/best practice Financing: EEA (Turkey) and Cards (West Balkans)

22. 22 Knowledge sharing Wastebase Success stories (waste prevention)

23. 23 Success stories Envirowise – the UK (www.envirowise.gov.uk) Commercial waste advisors – Denmark Effizienz-Agentur NRW - Germany (www.efanrw.de) Cleaner Production Centre – Croatia (www.cro-cpc.hr)

24. 24 http://waste.eionet.europa.eu/

25. 25 Other information sources www.wasteinfo.dk (International WasteNews) www.wasteinfo.dk http://www.eea.europa.eu/ http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/i ndex.htm http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/i ndex.htm http://www.iswa.org