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 statistics

How to deliver data

Luxembourg, 18September2015

1) Introduction

With the data collection on reference year 2013, the OECD and Eurostat have agreed to integrate the reporting of municipal waste data for the common Member States into one data flow. The respective sheet "SW" of the Annual Quality Assurance (AQA) of the OECD has been implemented as an EDAMIS webform at Eurostat. Eurostat's Sustainable Development Indicator on municipal waste is a subset of the variables in the webform. The results will be submitted both to Eurostat and the OECD at the same time when you launch the "official transfer".

The EDAMIS webforms have been prefilled with the latest time series which were available at the OECD or at Eurostat. Please check the time series in the webform carefully. In cases of uncertainty about the source that has been used, or should be used, please contact the waste statistics team at Eurostat () and/or Ms. Sarah Sentier at the OECD ().

We invite you to send your new data for2014 and possible revisions for previous reference yearsby13th November 2015.

The new questionnaire contains the variableslisted on the next page.The variables in italics are those which have been collected only in the OECD AQA questionnaire in the past few years. Please note that data on the variables "other recovery" and "other disposal" do not correspond to any R or D codes, and that data on these categories are not expected within the EU. However, if you consider the use these variables necessary, please describe in the quality report what recovery or disposal operation they represent in your country. Please do not use these categories for the reporting of pre-treatment operations, such as sorting or MBT. Outputs from these operations should be assigned to R or D categories.

EU Member States which are not OECD Member Countries are not formally requested to report on the integrated OECD variables. However, Eurostat recommends reporting on these variables as well, as far as data is available.

Variables:

Municipal waste generated

by origin:

Waste generated by households

Waste generated by other sources

by type of waste:

Generation of household and similar waste

Generation of bulky waste

Generation of WEEE

Total waste treatment

Recovery

Material recycling (R2 – R11, excluding part of R3)

Composting and digestion (part of R3)

Incineration / energy recovery (R1)

Other recovery

Disposal

Incineration / disposal (D10)

Landfill / disposal (D1-D7, D12)

Other disposal

Incineration (R1 + D10)

Coverage of the municipal waste collection system

The information on the coverage of the municipal waste collection systemshould detect potential discrepancies between the amount generated and the amount collected. We askcountries to include in municipal waste generated an estimate for the areas not covered by the municipal waste collection system and to state the percentage share of the total population that is covered by municipal waste collection schemes.

Eurostat is aware that the distinction between 'incineration with' and 'incineration without energy recovery'was under discussion. The revision of the Waste Framework Directive will offer clarification in energy efficiency criteria.Composting and digestion is part of recovery operation R3 and consists ofcomposting of bio-waste and greenwaste, and offermentation of biodegradable waste for bio-gas production; home composting is excluded.

Eurostat will calculate the Sustainable Development Indicators by dividing the amounts of waste by the average population, as available in Eurobase,Eurostat’s dissemination database.

2) How to access the data transmission tool

EDAMIS is thestandard tool for the transmission of data to Eurostat. The system providesa secure environment for the transmission of data, it offers logging of all transmissions and it sends confirmations of delivery.

You can access the webform via the EDAMIS Web Portal: Eurostat - EDAMIS - Portalusing ECASwhich is the European Commission Authentication System.

If you do not have an ECAS account, please self-register at ECAS ( Simply follow the "Sign up" procedure on the ECAS page.

When using EDAMIS for the first time you will be prompted to select your country and organisation after which you can request sender rights for the dataset(s) you require.Before you can send data, the Eurostat Domain Manager will acknowledge the registration with an email.If you have previously used EDAMIS you can proceed directly to the webform, through Transmission/Web Form Entry.

Select your domain and data sets for which you will be providing data; the domain WASTE will list all data sets within the domain. The relevant data setisWASTE_MUNWAS_A. This dataset covers the reference years 1995 to 2014. There is an additional dataset WASTE_MUNWAS_A1, which you can use for data revisions before 1995, if necessary.

3) How to enter data in the webform

You can enter the webform by selecting 'Transmission' in the toolbar (top left) and next 'Web Form Entry'. Select the domain WASTE and then the dataset WASTE_MUNWAS_Afrom the pull-down menusand press 'view'. If prompted, also select the year 2014.

A draft webform for your country (dataset "WASTE_MUNWAS_A", label"Municipal Waste", period"2014A"), containing the prefilled data for previous years, will be available in the list. Please make sure youselect the 2014webforms.

If you want to edit the data for the period from 1975 to 1994, you can use the webform WASTE_MUNWAS_A1. The reference year will always be 1994, i.e. the latest year of this period.

Select the draft file by clicking on the name in the column Dataset. A pop-up screen will ask: 'Would you like to lock the form before opening it?' Reply with 'yes'. It is also possible to lock the webform before opening. This is preferable if using a browser with a pop-up blocker.

You mayreceive a security warning on the use of Java; please indicate 'always trust' and next 'run'.If a message is displayedsaying "Java has discovered application components that could indicate a security concern, do you wish to block", please click on "No" to continue. Please contact us on any problem related to the use of Java.

You have entered the actual form. You can navigate using the scroll bar to reach the right and the bottom part of the table. You can lock the headers by right clicking in the field top right (A1).

Next to each value field you find a small column for entering flags. The value field should contain either a numeric value or should be empty. Please note that in case a certain waste operation does not occur in the country, a real zero (0) should be entered in the value field. For instance, if there is no incineration (D10), this meansthat the amounts of waste incinerated are zero (0).

The flag field has fiveoptions:

Bbreak in time series

Eestimated by the country

Sestimated by Eurostat or the OECD

Cconfidential

Mmissing

Flag 'B' is used to indicate a break in a time seriesbecause the data collection methods, the sources, data coverage, etc. have changed; the flag is to be used in the first year where the new methods are applied. Please provide explanations for the breaks in a comment to the webform.You can do this in the comment box (the 'comment' tab at the bottom of the screen); there is one comment box for the whole questionnaire. Please note that this information is not displayed in the webformsfor historical data. Therefore, please do not delete any of the existing flags in order to keep the important information on historical data. If you intend to delete or change existing flags, please enter a comment explaining why the additional information should be deleted or provide an alternative changed footnote.

Flag 'E' indicates that the value is estimated because information of sufficient accuracy is missing; this flag should also be used for provisional data.

Flag 'S'indicates Eurostat or OECD estimates. You may find this flag in the prefilled webforms. Please do not addnew 'S' flags as they are only for Eurostat/OECD purposes. However, you can remove 'S' flags if you replace estimates with revised data.

Flag 'C' indicates confidential data which should not be published. This is expected to be a very rare case in municipal waste statistics because data are provided at a highly aggregated level.

Flag 'M' indicates that information is not available. Please pay attention to the difference between 'real zero' values and missing data. Data is considered missing if no information is available. However, if, for instance, a treatment operation is known not to exist in your country, this should be reported as a "0" value without an M flag. The M flag should be set only if the cell for the numeric value remains empty.

Flag 'B' can be combined with a flag for an estimation ('E' or 'S').

You can enter data in three ways:

  1. Manually
  2. Copy and paste from a file on your computer
  3. Import (in the menu below), with several file format options

In case of options 2 and 3, please make sure that you do not alter the historical flags.

All values are in 1000 tonnes, with two decimal positions. The dot is the decimal separator.

During or at the end of your session you can save your work as a draft by pressing the save button at the bottom. A draft will be kept on the Eurostat server; the information willnot be delivered. In a later session you can return to the draft to finalise the work.

At the bottom you will also find the button 'export' to save the information to a file on your computer; the export function offers several file formats.

When the information is ready for delivery, you canpress the button 'official transfer' at the bottom. The 'official transfer' button will not be available where constraints or validation rules in the webform have been broken. The relevant cells will be shown in dark blue. It is necessary either to follow the constraints or validation rules or to provide a justification for the different figures.

You can leave the EDAMIS system by pressing the logout button in the toolbar top right.

Depending on all elements in the system (your environment, the connection, our environment, access by other users), the system might be a bit slow. Please allow the system to fully build the next step.

4) Quality Report on Municipal Waste Statistics

We would appreciate it if you could fill in and return the short Quality Report on Municipal Waste Statistics. The quality report now integrates elements both from the previous Eurostat quality report and the sheet "SW-Notes" from the OECD AQA questionnaire.

Please pay attention to text box A "footnotes and metadata" at the end of the template. Please download your country specific notes from CIRCABC, check them and use them to fill the text box, with changes as appropriate. The country specific notes are in the following CIRCABC folder:

To submit your quality report, please go to EDAMIS, "Transmission", "Send data file" and select the "dataset" called WASTE_MUNWMTH_A. Then you can upload your quality report and click on "perform transfer".

5) Support

Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us. The best way to contact us is by e-mail: .

For EDAMIS Support, please use this following address: or call (+352) 430133213.

Please specify your contact details and indicate what your question is about: e.g. registration, use of the EDAMIS system, waste concepts, etc.

With kindest regards,

Karin Blumenthal
and the Waste Data Centre Team at Eurostat
EUROPEAN COMMISSION - Eurostat - Environment Statistics
L-2920 LUXEMBOURG

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