Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on statistics compiled pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 on waste statistics and their quality

The aim of Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2002 on waste statistics is to produce statistics on waste falling under the scope of Directive 2008/98/EC on waste (the Waste Framework Directive). Article 8(1) of the Regulation requires the Commission to submit a report on the implementation of the Regulation to the European Parliament and the Council every 3 years (following the first report, which was to be submitted within 5 years of the entry into force of the Regulation). The first report was published in 2008, the second report in 2011 and the third report in 2014.

The Regulation lays down the data to be submitted and the quality required, while the choice of the specific method of drawing up waste statistics is left to the Member States. This enables them to keep their data collection systems and minimise the burden of complying with the Regulation. Member States are also required to submit a quality report along with the data. In these reports, Member States refer to quality elements commonly used in the European Statistical System and set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1445/2005 on the quality of waste statistics.