law://eu/reg/2005/782@2026-11-13THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2002 on waste statisticsnote and in particular Article 6(e) thereof,Whereas:
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
| Domain | 5 | Value: WASTE |
| Set | 5 | GENER, INCIN, RECOV, DISPO, REGIO |
| Periodicity | 2 | Value: A2 |
| Country code | 2 | Two letter country code (see list A) |
| Year | 4 | Reference Year (first reference year 2004) |
| Period | 4 | Value: 0000 (zero, zero, zero, zero) for annual data |
| Field | Maximum length | Values |
|---|---|---|
| Domain | 8 | Value: WASTE |
| Set | 6 | Value: GENER (the set consists in 51 × 21 records measured in wet waste and 3 × 21 measured in dry matter per country) |
| Country code | 2 | Two letter country code (see list A) |
| Year | 4 | Reference year (first reference year 2004) |
| Waste item | 2 | Code referring to EWC-Stat version 3 (see list B) |
| Activity item | 2 | Code referring to NACE (see list C ) |
| Wet/Dry | 1 | For all waste categories amount in (normal) wet waste (code W); for sludge (waste item 11, 12, 40) also amount in dry matter (code D) |
| Waste generated | 12 | Amount in 1000 tonnes per year. The amount is given as a real with three decimal places. The comma should be used as decimal symbol. For example: 19,876. This field should always contain a value. If the combination did not occur the value will be 0 (zero). Missing data are to be coded as ‘M’. The logical impossibility of a combination is indicated with ‘L’ |
| Update flag | 1 | To indicate provisional data (P) or revised data (R), empty otherwise |
| Confidentiality flag | 1 | Indicates confidential data (see list D) |
| Field | Maximum length | Values |
|---|---|---|
| Domain | 8 | Value: WASTE |
| Set | 6 | Value: INCIN (the set consists in 17 × 2 records measured in wet waste and 1 × 2 measured in dry matter per NUTS 1 region) |
| Country code | 2 | Two letter country code (see list A) |
| Year | 4 | Reference Year (first reference year 2004) |
| NUTS 1 code | 3 | Regional code according to NUTS classification in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote; the national total should be provided using the code TT |
| Waste item | 2 | Code referring to EWC-Stat version 3 (see list E) |
| Recovery or disposal operation | 1 | Code referring to the Annexes of Council Directive 75/442/EECnote (see list F); only operation 1 and 2 apply in this set |
| Wet/Dry | 1 | For all waste categories amount in (normal) wet waste (code W); for sludge (waste item 12) also amount in dry matter (code D) |
| Waste incinerated | 12 | Amount in 1000 tonnes per year. The amount is given as a real with three decimal places. The comma should be used as decimal symbol. For example: 19,876. This field should always contain a value. If the combination did not occur the value will be 0 (zero). Missing data are to be coded as ‘M’. The logical impossibility of a combination is indicated with ‘L’ |
| Update flag | 1 | To indicate provisional data (P) or revised data (R), empty otherwise |
| Confidentiality flag | 1 | Indicates confidential data (see list D) |
| Field | Maximum length | Values |
|---|---|---|
| Domain | 8 | Value: WASTE |
| Set | 6 | Value: RECOV (the set consists in 20 records per NUTS 1 region) |
| Country code | 2 | Two letter country code (see list A) |
| Year | 4 | Reference year (first reference year 2004) |
| NUTS 1 code | 3 | Regional code according to NUTS classification in Regulation (EC) no 1059/2003; the national total should be provided using the code TT |
| Waste item | 2 | Code referring to EWC-Stat version 3 (see list G) |
| Recovery or disposal operation | 1 | Code referring to the Annexes of Directive 75/442/EEC (see list F); only operation 3 applies in this set |
| Wet/Dry | 1 | For all waste categories amount in (normal) wet waste (code W) |
| Waste recovered | 12 | Amount in 1000 tonnes per year. The amount is given as a real with three decimal places. The comma should be used as decimal symbol. For example: 19,876. This field should always contain a value. If the combination did not occur the value will be 0 (zero). Missing data are to be coded as ‘M’. The logical impossibility of a combination is indicated with ‘L’ |
| Update flag | 1 | To indicate provisional data (P) or revised data (R), empty otherwise |
| Confidentiality flag | 1 | Indicates confidential data (see list D) |
| Field | Maximum length | Values |
|---|---|---|
| Domain | 8 | Value: WASTE |
| Set | 6 | Value: DISPO (the set consists in 19 × 2 records measured in wet waste and 1 × 2 measured in dry matter per NUTS 1 region) |
| Country code | 2 | Two letter country code (see list A) |
| Year | 4 | Reference year (first reference year 2004) |
| NUTS 1 code | 3 | Regional code according to NUTS classification in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003; the national total should be provided using the code TT |
| Waste item | 2 | Code referring to EWC-Stat version 3 (see list H) |
| Recovery or disposal operation | 1 | Code referring to the Annexes of Directive 75/442/EEC (see list F); only operations 4 and 5 apply in this set |
| Wet/Dry | 1 | For all waste categories amount in (normal) wet waste (code W); for sludge (waste item 12) also amount in dry matter (code D) |
| Waste disposed | 12 | Amount in 1000 tonnes per year. The amount is given as a real with three decimal places. The comma should be used as decimal symbol. For example: 19,876. This field should always contain a value. If the combination did not occur the value will be 0 (zero). Missing data are to be coded as ‘M’. The logical impossibility of a combination is indicated with ‘L’ |
| Update flag | 1 | To indicate provisional data (P) or revised data (R), empty otherwise |
| Confidentiality flag | 1 | Indicates confidential data (see list D) |
| Field | Maximum length | Values |
|---|---|---|
| Domain | 8 | Value: WASTE |
| Set | 6 | Value: REGIO (the set consists in 14 records per NUTS 2 region) |
| Country code | 2 | Two letter country code (see list A) |
| Year | 4 | Reference year (first reference year 2004) |
| NUTS 2 code | 4 | Regional code according to NUTS classification in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003; the national total should be provided using the code TT |
| Recovery or disposal operation | 1 | Code referring to the Annexes of Directive 75/442/EEC (see list F); empty for the population served by the collection scheme |
| Variable | 1 | Number of facilities (N), capacity (C) or population served by the collection scheme (P) |
| Measure | 1 | Code for the capacity measure dependent on the type of recovery or disposal operation (see list I); for the number of facilities code N, for the population served by the collection scheme either P (population) or D (dwellings) |
| Value | 12 | All values, the number of facilities, the percentage of population or dwellings covered by the collection scheme and the capacity are expressed as integer. This field should always contain a value. If the combination did not occur the value will be 0 (zero). Missing data are to be coded as ‘M’. The logical impossibility of a combination is indicated with ‘L’ |
| Update flag | 1 | To indicate provisional data (P) or revised data (R), empty otherwise |
| Confidentiality flag | 1 | Indicates confidential data (see list D) |
| Belgium | BE |
| Czech Republic | CZ |
| Denmark | DK |
| Germany | DE |
| Estonia | EE |
| Greece | EL |
| Spain | ES |
| France | FR |
| Ireland | IE |
| Italy | IT |
| Cyprus | CY |
| Latvia | LV |
| Lithuania | LT |
| Luxembourg | LU |
| Hungary | HU |
| Malta | MT |
| The Netherlands | NL |
| Austria | AT |
| Poland | PL |
| Portugal | PT |
| Slovenia | SI |
| Slovak Republic | SK |
| Finland | FI |
| Sweden | SE |
| United Kingdom | UK |
| Bulgaria | BG |
| Croatia | HR |
| Romania | RO |
| Turkey | TR |
| Iceland | IS |
| Liechtenstein | LI |
| Norway | NO |
| EWC-Stat/version 3 (OJ L 90, 27.3.2004, p. 15) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Code | Hazardous | Waste item |
| Spent solvents | 01.1 | H | 1 |
| Acid, alkaline or saline wastes | 01.2 | 2 | |
| Acid, alkaline or saline wastes | 01.2 | H | 3 |
| Used oils | 01.3 | H | 4 |
| Spent chemical catalysts | 01.4 | 5 | |
| Spent chemical catalysts | 01.4 | H | 6 |
| Chemical preparation wastes | 02 | 7 | |
| Chemical preparation wastes | 02 | H | 8 |
| Chemical deposits and residues | 03.1 | 9 | |
| Chemical deposits and residues | 03.1 | H | 10 |
| Industrial effluent sludges | 03.2 | 11 | |
| Industrial effluent sludges | 03.2 | H | 12 |
| Health care and biological wastes | 05 | 13 | |
| Health care and biological wastes | 05 | H | 14 |
| Metallic wastes | 06 | 15 | |
| Metallic wastes | 06 | H | 16 |
| Glass wastes | 07.1 | 17 | |
| Glass wastes | 07.1 | H | 18 |
| Paper and cardboard wastes | 07.2 | 19 | |
| Rubber wastes | 07.3 | 20 | |
| Plastic wastes | 07.4 | 21 | |
| Wood wastes | 07.5 | 22 | |
| Wood wastes | 07.5 | H | 23 |
| Textile wastes | 07.6 | 24 | |
| Waste containing PCB | 07.7 | H | 25 |
| Discarded equipment (excluding discarded vehicles and batteries and accumulators waste) | 08 (excl. 08.1, 08.41) | 26 | |
| Discarded equipment (excluding discarded vehicles and batteries and accumulators waste) | 08 (excl. 08.1, 08.41) | H | 27 |
| Discarded vehicles | 08.1 | 28 | |
| Discarded vehicles | 08.1 | H | 29 |
| Batteries and accumulators wastes | 08.41 | 30 | |
| Batteries and accumulators wastes | 08.41 | H | 31 |
| Animal and vegetal wastes (excluding animal of food preparation and products; and excluding animal faeces, urine and manure) | 09 (excl. 09.11, 09.3) | 32 | |
| Animal waste of food preparation and products | 09.11 | 33 | |
| Animal faeces, urine and manure | 09.3 | 34 | |
| Household and similar wastes | 10.1 | 35 | |
| Mixed and undifferentiated materials | 10.2 | 36 | |
| Mixed and undifferentiated materials | 10.2 | H | 37 |
| Sorting residues | 10.3 | 38 | |
| Sorting residues | 10.3 | H | 39 |
| Common sludges (excluding dredging spoils) | 11 (excl. 11.3) | 40 | |
| Dredging spoils | 11.3 | 41 | |
| Mineral wastes (excluding combustion wastes, contaminated soils and polluted dredging spoils) | 12 (excl. 12.4, 12.6) | 42 | |
| Mineral wastes (excluding combustion wastes, contaminated soils and polluted dredging spoils) | 12 (excl. 12.4, 12.6) | H | 43 |
| Combustion wastes | 12.4 | 44 | |
| Combustion wastes | 12.4 | H | 45 |
| Contaminated soils and polluted dredging spoils | 12.6 | H | 46 |
| Solidified, stabilised or vitrified wastes | 13 | 47 | |
| Solidified, stabilised or vitrified wastes | 13 | H | 48 |
| Total, non-hazardous | TN | ||
| Total, hazardous | H | TH | |
| Total, general | TT |
| Item No | NACE Rev. 2 Code | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Division 01 | Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities |
| Division 02 | Forestry and logging | |
| 2 | Division 03 | Fishing and aquaculture |
| 3 | Section B | Mining and quarrying |
| 4 | Division 10 | Manufacture of food products |
| Division 11 | Manufacture of beverages | |
| Division 12 | Manufacture of tobacco products | |
| 5 | Division 13 | Manufacture of textiles |
| Division 14 | Manufacture of wearing apparel | |
| Division 15 | Manufacture of leather and related products | |
| 6 | Division 16 | Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials |
| 7 | Division 17 | Manufacture of paper and paper products |
| Division 18 | Printing and reproduction of recorded media | |
| 8 | Division 19 | Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products |
| 9 | Division 20 | Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products |
| Division 21 | Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations | |
| Division 22 | Manufacture of rubber and plastic products | |
| 10 | Division 23 | Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products |
| 11 | Division 24 | Manufacture of basic metals |
| Division 25 | Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment | |
| 12 | Division 26 | Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products |
| Division 27 | Manufacture of electrical equipment | |
| Division 28 | Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. | |
| Division 29 | Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers | |
| Division 30 | Manufacture of other transport equipment | |
| 13 | Division 31 | Manufacture of furniture |
| Division 32 | Other manufacturing | |
| Division 33 | Repair and installation of machinery and equipment | |
| 14 | Section D | Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply |
| 15 | Division 36 | Water collection, treatment and supply |
| Division 37 | Sewerage | |
| Division 39 | Remediation activities and other waste management services | |
| 16 | Division 38 | Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery |
| 17 | Section F | Construction |
| 18 | Service activities: | |
| Section G, except 46,77 | Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles | |
| Section H | Transportation and storage | |
| Section I | Accommodation and food service activities | |
| Section J | Information and communication | |
| Section K | Financial and insurance activities | |
| Section L | Real estate activities | |
| Section M | Professional, scientific and technical activities | |
| Section N | Administrative and support service activities | |
| Section O | Public administration and defence; compulsory social security | |
| Section P | Education | |
| Section Q | Human health and social work activities | |
| Section R | Arts, entertainment and recreation | |
| Section S | Other service activities | |
| Section T | Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use | |
| Section U | Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies | |
| 19 | Class 46,77 | Wholesale of waste and scrap |
| 20 | Waste generated by households(This is not a NACE category) | |
| TA | Total | Total |
| Too few enterprises | A | For instance 1 or 2 enterprises in the population |
| One enterprise dominates the data | B | Not too few enterprises, but one enterprise generates/treats for instance over 70 % |
| Two enterprises dominate the data | C | Not too few enterprises, but two enterprises generate/treat for instance over 70 % |
| Confidential data due to secondary confidentiality | D | Not confidential on its own account (flag A, B, C), but to prevent indirect disclosure of confidential data |
| The value is not confidential | Blank |
| Waste item | EWC-Stat Version 3 (OJ L 90, 27.3.2004, p. 15) | Hazardous/Non-hazardous waste | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code | Description | ||
| 1 | 01 + 02 + 03 | Chemical wastes(Chemical compound waste + Chemical preparation wastes + Other chemical wastes) | Non-hazardous |
| 2 | 01 + 02 + 03 excl. 01.3 | Chemical wastes excluding Used oils(Chemical compound waste + Chemical preparation wastes + Other chemical wastes) | Hazardous |
| 3 | 01.3 | Used oils | Hazardous |
| 4 | 05 | Health care and biological wastes | Non-hazardous |
| 5 | 05 | Health care and biological wastes | Hazardous |
| 6 | 07.7 | Waste containing PCB | Hazardous |
| 7 | 10.1 | Household and similar wastes | Non-hazardous |
| 8 | 10.2 | Mixed and undifferentiated materials | Non-hazardous |
| 9 | 10.2 | Mixed and undifferentiated materials | Hazardous |
| 10 | 10.3 | Sorting residues | Non-hazardous |
| 11 | 10.3 | Sorting residues | Hazardous |
| 12 | 11 | Common sludges | Non-hazardous |
| 13 | 06 + 07 + 08 + 09 + 12 + 13 | Other wastes(Metallic wastes + Non-metallic wastes + Discarded equipment + Animal and vegetal wastes + Mineral wastes + Solidified, stabilised or vitrified wastes) | Non-hazardous |
| 14 | 06 + 07 + 08 + 09 + 12 + 13 excl. 07.7 | Other wastes(Metallic wastes + Non-metallic wastes excluding Waste containing PCB + Discarded equipment + Animal and vegetal wastes + Mineral wastes + Solidified, stabilised or vitrified wastes) | Hazardous |
| TN | Total, non-hazardous | Non-hazardous | |
| TH | Total, hazardous | Hazardous | |
| TT | Total, general |
| Operation | Code | Types of recovery and disposal operations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | R1 | Use principally as a fuel or other means to generate energy |
| 2 | D10 | Incineration on land |
| 3 | R2 + | Solvent reclamation/regeneration |
| R3 + | Recycling/reclamation of organic substances which are not used as solvents (including composting and other biological transformation processes) | |
| R4 + | Recycling/reclamation of metals and metal compounds | |
| R5 + | Recycling/reclamation of other inorganic materials | |
| R6 + | Regeneration of acids or bases | |
| R7 + | Recovery of components used for pollution abatement | |
| R8 + | Recovery of components from catalysts | |
| R9 + | Oil refining or other reuses of oil | |
| R10 + | Land treatment resulting in benefit to agriculture or ecological improvement | |
| R11 | Use of wastes obtained from any of the operations numbered R1 to R10 | |
| 4 | D1 + | Deposit into or onto land (e.g. landfill etc.) |
| D3 + | Deep injection (e.g. injection of pumpable discards into wells, salt domes or naturally occurring repositories etc.) | |
| D4 + | Surface impoundment (e.g. placement of liquid or sludge discards into pits, pounds or lagoons etc.) | |
| D5 + | Special engineered landfill (e.g. placement into lined discrete cells which are capped and isolated from one another and the environment etc.) | |
| D12 | Permanent storage (e.g. emplacement of containers in a mine etc.) | |
| 5 | D2 + | Land treatment (e.g. biodegradation of liquid or sludgy discards in soils etc.) |
| D6 + | Release into a water body except seas/oceans | |
| D7 | Release into seas/oceans including sea-bed insertion |
| Waste item | EWC-Stat Version 3 (OJ L 90, 27.3.2004, p. 15) | Hazardous/Non-hazardous waste | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code | Description | ||
| 1 | 01.3 | Used oils | Hazardous |
| 2 | 06 | Metallic wastes | Non-hazardous |
| 3 | 06 | Metallic wastes | Hazardous |
| 4 | 07.1 | Glass wastes | Non-hazardous |
| 5 | 07.1 | Glass wastes | Hazardous |
| 6 | 07.2 | Paper and cardboard wastes | Non-hazardous |
| 7 | 07.3 | Rubber wastes | Non-hazardous |
| 8 | 07.4 | Plastic wastes | Non-hazardous |
| 9 | 07.5 | Wood wastes | Non-hazardous |
| 10 | 07.6 | Textile wastes | Non-hazardous |
| 11 | 09 excl. 09.11, 09.3 | Animal and vegetal wastes(excluding animal waste of food preparation and products; and animal faeces, urine and manure) | Non-hazardous |
| 12 | 09.11 | Animal waste of food preparation and products | Non-hazardous |
| 13 | 09.3 | Animal faeces, urine and manure | Non-hazardous |
| 14 | 12 | Mineral waste | Non-hazardous |
| 15 | 12 | Mineral waste | Hazardous |
| 16 | 01 + 02 + 03 + 05 + 08 + 10 + 11 + 13 | Other wastes(Chemical compound wastes + Chemical preparation wastes + Other chemical wastes + Health care and biological wastes + Discarded equipment + Mixed ordinary wastes + Common sludges + Solidified, stabilised or vitrified wastes) | Non-hazardous |
| 17 | 01 + 02 + 03 + 05 + 07.5 + 07.7 + 08 + 10 + 11 + 13 excl. 01.3 | Other wastes(Chemical compound wastes excluding Used oils + Chemical preparation wastes + Other chemical wastes + Health care and biological wastes + Wood wastes + Waste containing PCB + Discarded equipment + Mixed ordinary wastes + Common sludges + Solidified, stabilised or vitrified wastes) | Hazardous |
| TN | Total, non-hazardous | Non-hazardous | |
| TH | Total, hazardous | Hazardous | |
| TT | Total, general |
| Item No. | EWC-Stat Version 3 (OJ L 90, 27.3.2004, p. 15) | Hazardous/Non-hazardous waste | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code | Description | ||
| 1 | 01 + 02 + 03 | Chemical wastes(Chemical compound waste + Chemical preparation wastes + Other chemical wastes) | Non-hazardous |
| 2 | 01 + 02 + 03 excl. 01.3 | Chemical wastes excluding Used oils(Chemical compound waste + Chemical preparation wastes + Other chemical wastes) | Hazardous |
| 3 | 01.3 | Used oils | Hazardous |
| 4 | 09 excl. 09.11, 09.3 | Animal and vegetal wastes(excluding animal waste of food preparation and products; and animal faeces, urine and manure) | Non-hazardous |
| 5 | 09.11 | Animal waste of food preparation and products | Non-hazardous |
| 6 | 09.3 | Animal faeces, urine and manure | Non-hazardous |
| 7 | 10.1 | Household and similar wastes | Non-hazardous |
| 8 | 10.2 | Mixed and undifferentiated materials | Non-hazardous |
| 9 | 10.2 | Mixed and undifferentiated materials | Hazardous |
| 10 | 10.3 | Sorting residues | Non-hazardous |
| 11 | 10.3 | Sorting residues | Hazardous |
| 12 | 11 | Common sludges | Non-hazardous |
| 13 | 12 | Mineral wastes | Non-hazardous |
| 14 | 12 | Mineral wastes | Hazardous |
| 15 | 05 + 06 + 07 + 08 + 13 | Other wastes(Health care and biological wastes + Metallic wastes + Non-metallic wastes + Discarded equipment + Solidified, stabilised or vitrified wastes) | Non-hazardous |
| 16 | 05 + 06 + 07 + 08 + 13 | Other wastes(Health care and biological wastes + Metallic wastes + Non-metallic wastes + Discarded equipment + Solidified, stabilised or vitrified wastes) | Hazardous |
| TN | Total, non-hazardous | Non-hazardous | |
| TH | Total, hazardous | Hazardous | |
| TT | Total, general |
| Operation | Capacity measure | Measure code |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1000 tonnes per year with three decimals | t |
| Terajoules per year (1012) | j | |
| 2 | 1000 tonnes per year with three decimals | t |
| Terajoules per year (1012) | j | |
| 3 | 1000 tonnes per year with three decimals | t |
| 4 | Cubic metres per year | m |
| 5 | 1000 tonnes per year with three decimals | t |
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