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Waste statistics

1999/0010(COD)

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Commission Regulation 782/2005/EC setting out the format for the transmission of results on waste statistics.

CONTENT: By virtue of Article 6 of Regulation 2150/2002/EC on waste statistics, the Commission is required to adopt the measures necessary for implementing that Regulation.

In accordance with Article 6(e) of the Regulation, the Commission should set out the appropriate format for the transmission of results by Member States.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee established by Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom.  The appropriate format for the transmission of results on waste statistics to the Commission (Eurostat) shall be as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Member States shall use this format for the data on the 2004 reference year and subsequent years.

Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) the data and metadata required by Regulation 2150/2002/EC in electronic form, in accordance with an interchange standard proposed by the Commission (Eurostat).

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 14/06/2005.