ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Environment Directorate
Environmental Performance and Information Division
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
EUROSTAT
Unit E2: Environmental statistics and accounts;
sustainable development
MUNICIPAL WASTE REPORTING
DATA QUALITY / METHODOLOGY REPORT
The objective of this Data Quality Report is to gather information on the data compilation
methods and coverage of the data reported on municipal waste. The Report should allow a
better understanding of the approaches taken by Member States as well as the possibilities and
limits of data comparability across countries. Note that questions shown in italics refer to the
OECD Annual Quality Assurance of environmental reference series sheet “Specifications and
comments”. Note that in these questions, a text field is provided for each check-box for
comments. Both elements must be double clicked in order to be filled.
The suggested structure of the report consists of 2 parts:

General information

Information on Municipal waste
Recommended content and structure of the Data Quality Report:
General information:
Country: _____________________
Organisation submitting the data and the description:
Contact person / contact details:
Reference period (e.g. data for the year 2014):
Delivery date / version:
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Information on Municipal waste
1. Generation of municipal waste
1.1 Municipal waste data collection: Please indicate the data source.
written survey
administrative data
data collected from waste treatment facilities
data collected from municipalities
other, please specify:
In case municipal waste data is collected by a survey, please indicate the response rate
1.2 Data coverage
a)
the data presented refer to amounts of waste
☐ generated:
☐ collected:
b)
In case the total population is not covered by a municipal waste collection, do you include
an estimate for the amount of municipal waste generated by the un-covered population in
your figure on municipal waste generation?
Yes (-> c) / No (-> d)
c)
If Yes, please provide the following information:
c1) Amount of municipal waste collected (tonnes):………………………
c2) On which basis do you determine the covered population (number of residents /
number of households / other)?
c3) How is the non-covered amount of municipal waste estimated?
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d)
If No, why is this estimate missing?
1.3 Please provide in a more general way the following information:
a) The data presented refer to amounts of waste originating from
households
commerce and trade,
small businesses, office
buildings, institutions
municipal services, i.e.
street and market cleaning,
yard waste, litter containers
b) The data presented refer to amounts of
household and similar waste
bulky waste
other
c) Please describe in more detail the composition and sources of household/municipal
waste by ticking the relevant cells in the table at the end of this document.
If you are able to estimate the share of municipal waste coming from households we would
be grateful if you could provide the percentage (Note that we are aware of the involved
difficulties): …………
1.4 Please explain how the distinction between the different sources of packaging waste
(households, business) is made.
1.5 Please explain significant methodological changes in your municipal waste data collection
for the current reference year, if any (please include in particular retrospective revisions,
their nature and whether a break-flag is required for a certain year):
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2. Management of municipal waste
Please provide information on the classification used for treatment operations (if a standard
classification is used, just refer to its name, else please specify the available categories (in this
case, you may attach a file containing a list of these categories):
2.1 Temporary storage may lead to time lags between waste generation and treatment. This
may explain imbalances between generation and treatment reported in a given year.
Does temporary storage exist in your country to what extent
(share of national waste generation in %): _______________
Did temporary storage exist in your country in former reference years Yes
/ No
If yes, please provide information on the extent (ref year / share in %) and the (most
important) way of treatment after storage:
2.2 Reporting on municipal waste treatment is broken down into four treatment operations. In
case of pre-treatment (Sorting process - SP; Mechanical-Biological treatment - MBT), the
reporting of the respective amounts should ideally be based on the destination of the output
of the pre-treatment.
a) Please state to which of the four treatment categories the reported amounts are assigned
and whether input data or output data of the pre-treatment processes are reported.
Please tick the boxes, if the following pre-treatment processes exist in your country (you
may provide a comment on the relevance of these treatments or other issues):
SP (comment
MBT (comment
)
)
(If yes, please mark the relevant cell(s) with a cross)
Possible assignments
SP
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MBT
input
output
input
output
a) Landfill
b) Incineration (with or without energy recovery)
c) Recycling
d) Composting
b) If data are based on input, please provide information / an estimation of the share of
sorting residues from the pre-treatment operations and the share of the actually recycled
amount (recycling efficiency):
c) Based on the information provided on the classification of treatment above, please list
the codes / categories used to collect data and the approximate amounts for
SP:
MBT:
2.3 Please describe the data validation process:
2.4 Has municipal waste or separately collected fractions of municipal waste been sent to /from
another Member State?
export:
Yes
/ No
import:
Yes
/ No
If yes, how have the reuse and recycling rates for these amounts been derived and
monitored/validated?
2.5 Has municipal waste or separately collected fractions of municipal waste been sent to /from
countries outside of the European Union?
export:
Yes
/ No
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import:
Yes
/ No
If yes, how have the reuse and recycling rates for these amounts been derived and
monitored/validated?
2.6 As a summary of the above answers, please specify by using tick marks below. The data
presented refer to the amounts of waste
collected in the country
collected – exported
collected + imported
to be managed in the country, i.e. amounts collected + imported amounts –
exported amounts
Comment:
2.7 Is the energy efficiency criterion for the differentiation of R1 and D10 according to the WFD
implemented in your municipal waste data?
Yes
/ No
If yes, please state the first reference year from which the implementation of the criterion is
in place: _________
If no, please state, for which reference year the first implementation is envisaged: _______
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Municipal waste materials and relevant sources related to section 1.3 c), please mark the relevant cell(s) with a cross
Generated by
Waste materials
List of Waste code
Com. Dec.
2000/532/EC
Chap 20
Chap 15
Paper and cardboard
20 01 01
15 01 01
Metals
20 01 40
15 01 04
Plastic
20 01 39
15 01 02
Glass
20 01 02
15 01 07
Wood
20 01 38
15 01 03
Textiles
20 01 10,
20 01 11
15 01 09
Mixed municipal waste / mixed
packaging
20 03 01
15 01 06
Waste from markets
20 03 02
Bulky waste
20 03 07
Biodegradable kitchen and
canteen waste
20 01 08, 20 01 25
Biodegradable garden and
park waste
20 02 01
Non-biodegradable garden
and park waste
20 02 02, 20 02 03
Batteries
20 01 34, 20 01 33*
Discarded equipment
20 01 21*, 20 01 23*,
20 01 35*, 20 01 36
Small
enterprises/
Restaurants, etc
Households
Chap 20
Chap 15
Ch 20
Including homecomposting?
yes….. / no….
Including homecomposting?
yes …. / no….
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Ch 15
Office
buildings/
institutions
Ch 20
Ch 15
Public Services
Ch 20
Ch 15
Others
(please specify)
Ch 20
Ch 15
Generated by
Waste materials
Hazardous household waste
List of Waste code Com.
Dec. 2000/532/EC
Small
enterprises/
Restaurants, etc
Households
Office
buildings/
institutions
Public Services
Others
(please specify)
20 01 13* - 15*, 20 01 17*,
20 01 19*, 20 01 26* - 27*,
20 01 29*, 20 01 31*,
20 01 37*
Municipal waste not
mentioned above (please
specify)
Further questions from OECD questionnaire, section “Specifications and comments” (if the length of the text field is insufficient, please continue in the boxarea after the textfield):
Municipal waste : national definition:
A. Footnotes and metadata (for checking and updating) / Notes et métadonnées (pour vérification et mise à jour):
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B. Comments on the level of accuracy of the data presented / Commentaires sur le niveau d’exactitude des données présentées:
C. Additional comments and information to help interpret the data/ Commentaires et informations supplémentaires pour aider à
interpréter les données:
[e.g. a brief explanation of the observed trends, their characteristics, and the underlying drivers (socio-economic factors, policy measures, natural
factors, …), main challenges to which the country is confronted, …]
[p.ex. une explication des tendances observées, de leurs caractéristiques et de leurs moteurs (facteurs socio-économiques, mesures politiques,
facteurs naturels, …) ; principaux défis auxquels le pays est confronté, …]
D. Main national websites/ Principaux sites internet nationaux:
E. Main reference documents and publications/ Principaux documents et publications de référence:
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