Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2002 on waste statistics (Text with EEA relevance)
Modified by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 574/2004of 23 February 2004amending Annexes I and III to Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste statistics(Text with EEA relevance), 304R0574, March 27, 2004
Commission Regulation (EC) No 783/2005of 24 May 2005amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste statistics(Text with EEA relevance), 305R0783, May 25, 2005
Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 25 November 2002on waste statistics(Text with EEA relevance)THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 285 thereof,Having regard to the proposals from the CommissionOJ C 87, 29.3.1999, p. 22, OJ C 180 E, 26.6.2001, p. 202 and amended proposal of 10 December 2001 (not yet published in the Official Journal).,Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social CommitteeOJ C 329, 17.11.1999, p. 17.,Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the TreatyOpinion of the European Parliament of 4 September 2001 (OJ C 72 E, 21.3.2002, p. 32), Council Common Position of 15 April 2002 (OJ C 145 E, 18.6.2002, p. 85) and Decision of the European Parliament of 4 July 2002 (not yet published in the Official Journal), Decision of the Council of 14 November 2002.,Whereas:(1)Regular Community statistics on the production and management of waste from businesses and private households are required by the Community for monitoring the implementation of waste policy. This creates the basis for monitoring compliance with the principles of maximisation of recovery and safe disposal. Statistical instruments are still required, however, for assessing compliance with the principle of waste prevention and to establish a link between waste generation data and global, national and regional inventories of resource use.(2)The terms for the description of waste and waste management need to be defined in order to ensure the comparability of results in waste statistics.(3)Community waste policy has led to the establishment of a set of principles to be followed by waste-producing units and waste management. This requires the monitoring of waste at different points of the waste-stream generation, collection, recovery and disposal.(4)Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 of 17 February 1997 on Community statisticsOJ L 52, 22.2.1997, p. 1 constitutes the reference framework for the provisions of this Regulation..(5)To guarantee comparable results, waste statistics should be produced in accordance with the specified breakdown, in an appropriate form and within a fixed period of time from the end of the reference year.(6)Since the objective of the proposed measure, namely to establish a framework for the production of Community statistics on the generation, recovery and disposal of waste, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, by reason of the need to define terms of description of waste and waste management so as to ensure the comparability of the statistics supplied by the Member States, and can therefore be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve the objective of the proposed measure.(7)Member States may need a transitional period for the establishment of their statistics on waste for all or some of the economic activities A, B and G to Q of NACE REV 1 as established by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 of 9 October 1990 on the statistical classification of economic activities in the European CommunityOJ L 293, 24.10.1990, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 29/2002 (OJ L 6, 10.1.2002, p. 3). for which their national statistical system requires major adaptations.(8)The measures necessary for the implementation of this Regulation should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the CommissionOJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23..(9)The Statistical Programme Committee has been consulted by the Commission,HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: