Transcript Waste Monitoring and Reporting

Waste Monitoring and Reporting
Lubomir Nondek
DHV CR, Prague
Czech Republic
EU Waste Directives
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Monitoring and reporting are part of the
waste management (legal obligations),
Only outcomes are defined (format,
deadlines) not organization!
Lain down in individual directives or in
Directive 91/692/EEC
EU Waste Directives
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End-of Life Vehicles, Packaging and
Packaging Waste, WEEE, Shipment of
Waste, Waste Framework, HW,
Landfill, Waste Oils, Sewage Sludge,
Spent Batteries and Accumulators.
All require specific reporting formats
Waste Monitoring and Reporting
Monitoring: The act of observing something and
keeping a record of that observation; or to: keep
watch; keep track of; keep under surveillance; or,
check usually for a special purpose.
Characteristics: systematic, regular, planned,
organized, standardized (methods)
Waste Monitoring and Reporting
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Reporting: Preparation of standardized report(s) to
defined authorities, stakeholders or public either on
regular basis or related to pre-defined events
(transport of hazardous waste, accidental pollution
release etc.). Scope and periodicity is given by sublaws, standards, guidebooks usually along with the
monitoring and/or record keeping methodology.
Characteristics: systematic, regular/irregular,
organized, standardized (format)
Waste Monitoring and Reporting
Integration of both processes
 Monitoring without reporting does not usually
make sense (however sometimes it
happens),
 Reporting without monitoring is not possible.
Waste management - Monitoring
Specific characteristics
 Large number of obliged persons (defined by
laws and sub-laws),
 Proper waste categorization (definitions,
waste catalogue, lab tests),
 Simple measurement of quantity (weighting
preferred),
Waste management – Data Collection
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Periodicity and format prescribed,
Detection of outliers (comparison with
previous reports, benchmarking),
Verification (random check at waste
generators and persons collecting/disposing
waste),
Training, enforcement and penalization,
Reporting Directive 91/692/EEC
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At intervals of three years the Member States shall send
information to the Commission ...in the form of a sectoral report
which shall also cover other pertinent Community Directives.
This report shall be drawn up on the basis of a questionnaire or
outline drafted by the Commission in accordance with the
procedure laid down in Article 6 of Directive 91/692/EEC.
The questionaire or outline shall be sent to the Member States
six months before the start of the period covered by the report.
The report shall be sent to the Commission within nine months
of the end of the three-year period covered by it.
In practice (1)
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Integrated with use of economic instruments,
permitting, issuing of licenses etc. (market with
services, role of regulator),
Reports also used for compliance checks,
calculation of payments, e.g. to environmental
fund(s),
Depends upon structure of the public administration,
roles are stipulated legally,
Basic framework usually lain down in waste
legislation (Law, sub-laws, decrees etc.),
In practice (2)
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Central agency, but aggregation of data at
lower (e.g. regional) levels (mainly MSW),
Human resources intensive (training at
several levels),
Careful design at all levels (incl. QA/QC),
Takes 2-3 years to reach a mature state
(pilots are recommended), frequent changes
should be avoided.
Waste Statistics
Regulation 2150/2002/EC (WstatR)
Waste Statistics Regulation (WStatR – to
ensure better monitoring of effective
implementation of Community policy on
waste management with regular,
comparable, current and representative data
on the generation, recycling, re-use and
disposal of waste.
Waste Statistics
Regulation 2150/2002/EC (WstatR)
The different categories of waste and the
characteristics for which the statistics are to
be compiled (quantity of waste handled,
generation of waste by economic activities
and households, waste management
operations, etc.) are reviewed in detail in the
tables (Annexes) attached to the Regulation.
Commission Regulation (EC) No
1445/2005
Member States submit also a quality report,
indicating the degree of precision for the
collected data, in accordance with
Commission Regulation (EC) No
1445/2005 of 5 September 2005 defining the
proper quality evaluation criteria and the
contents of the quality reports for waste
statistics.
Integrated Reporting on Waste
(project)
Project “Integrated reporting”, Excell
application, statistical data and metadata
exchange, implements international
standards on data exchange, based upon
extended mark-up language (XML).
eDAMIS – electronic dataflow Administration
and Management Information System.
Pre-accession monitoring by EC
Legal framework, concordance, gaps, deadlines (TOCs),
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Institutional arrangement (authorities, focal persons,
roles),
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Concrete data (absolute quantities, number of obliged
persons, number of dedicated installations, inspection
statistics etc.).
TOCs and IQs filled in by contracted experts (not state
employees), independent verification.
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