Waste statistics

Between June 1999 and September 2000, a Council Working Party discussed this text on five separate occasions. In the last of these meetings (held on 29 September 2000), the participants of the Working Party reached a broad consensus on the amendments made to the Commission proposal, as reflected in its "Draft proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to statistics on waste. The amendments proposed by the Council Working Party focus mainly on the reduction of data requirements and the provision of greater flexibility in data reporting for Member States, which either improve the original proposal or at least deemed acceptable by the Commission. This present document constitutes the Commission's revised proposal, which would replace the original proposal. The revised proposal maintains the logic of the original proposal. Moreover, the revised proposal is almost identical to the Working Party's consensus draft. The only significant difference between the two is the periodicity of data collection for waste treatment. Moreover, the revised proposal accepts the modification to the structure of the the annexes suggested by the Working Party's consensus draft. Accordingly, the revise proposal contains three annexes: generation of waste; recovery and disposal of water and transposition table between the European Waste Catalogue (EWC) adn the 'EXC-stat V2' (which defines the waste categories to be used in the Community statistics on waste). �