1. European Topic Centre on Resource and Waste Management Overview of EU reporting obligations on waste Under contract with the European Environment Agency Henrik Jacobsen

2. Outline of presention EU waste legislation Reporting obligations Useful links

3. EU waste legislation with numeric reporting obligations

4. Waste Statistics Regulation Passed in 2002 First reporting 2006 - data for 2004 Reporting every second year Replaces the Eurostat/OECD joint questionnaire for EU Member States Replaces other EU reporting obligations? Covers 20 sectors; 48 waste categories; 3 kinds of treatment

5. Waste generation from 20 sectors

6. 48 waste categories

8. 3 kinds of treatment

9. Example: Recovery

10. Data on disposal and recovery facilities Number of operation facilities (NUTS 2) Capacity of the operations (NUTS 2)

11. Outstanding problems Waste from Nace sector A and B Import/export of waste Packaging waste Preparatory treatment of waste  Pilot studies in the Member States

12. Reporting obligations for packaging waste Targets 2008: 60% recovery of packaging waste Recycling – Glass: 60% – Paper and board: 60% – Metals: 50% – Plastic: 22,5% – Wood: 15% – Total packaging: 55%

13. Reporting obligations for packaging waste

14. Useful links EEA Reporting obligation database: http://rod.eionet.eu.int/index.html Eurostat Waste Handbook:http://forum.europa.eu.int/Public/irc/dsis/pip/lib rary?l=/wastesstatisticssregulat/statistics_handbook&vm=d etailed&sb=Title Commission website on packaging waste: http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/waste/packaging_i ndex.htm