Manual on waste statistics : a handbook for data collection on waste generation and treatment

Regular statistics on the production and management of waste from businesses and private households are collected from Member States and published every two years following common methodological recommendations. With the growing experience some shortcomings of the original legislation and the methodological manual have become apparent. As a consequence, Commission Regulation 849/2010, which takes effect from reference year 2010 onwards, brings about various simplifications and improvements to the legal framework. This new version of the manual on waste statistics, which is in accordance with the new legal basis, reflects in detail the methodological development and refinement which the experience of the first data collections has made both necessary and possible. A number of experts from Eurostat, national statistical offices, environmental agencies and consultants have developed this manual over several years.