Survey on total waste

Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

Environmental statistics and accounts division

Dušanka Dostanić

5 Milana Rakića, Belgrade

dusanka.dostanic@stat.gov.rs

011/3087-001

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Data on waste generated and treated is collected through statistical surveys on waste according to the requirements of the Regulation on waste statistics (EC) no. Commission Regulation (EU) No 2150/2002, as amended by 849/2010.

The quantities of waste generated and treated are in tonnes.

• Classification of Activities (CA – 2010), “Official Gazette of RS”, No 54/10;

Source of waste generation:

The generation of waste is attributed to either production or consumption activities. The actor handing over the waste to the waste management system is regarded as the source. In production activities waste generation according to the Waste Statistics Regulation is shown for 18 economic activities (activities according to the Classification of Activities). In addition to waste generated by businesses, waste is also generated by households.

• Table of equivalency that according to the Annex III of the EC Regulation 849/2010 presents the connection between EWC – Stat/Version 4 (substantially oriented statistical nomenclatures of waste) and European List of Waste (LoW) – Decision of European Commission 2000/532/EC.

Waste categories:

The data sets contain a breakdown into 51 waste categories according to the European Waste Classification for statistical purposes: EWC-Stat. It is a mainly substance oriented classification and it distinguishes hazardous and non-hazardous waste. The classification is linked to the administrative classification List of Wastes.

Treatment types:

On the basis of the treatment operations defined in the Waste Framework Directive 75/442/EEC and amemded by Directive 2008/98/EC a distinction is made in treatment types:

Recovery (excluding energy recovery) (RCV_NE): operations R2 to R11;

Energy recovery (RCV_E): Operation R1;

Recovery other than energy recovery - backfilling (RCV_B);

Incineration (Without energy recovery) (INC): D10

Disposal on land (DSP_D) - Operations D1, D5, D12

Land treatment/release into water (DSP_O): Operations D2, D3, D4, D6, D7

• Regulation on Nomenclature of Statistical territorial Units (“Official Gazette of RS”, No 109/09 and 46/10)

The database on waste generation includes all economic activities and in addition waste generated by households.

The database on waste treatment does not include pre-treatment activities (like sorting, drying), but only the final treatment.

The sludges (including the dredging spoils) are measured in dry matter.

Reporting units in the survey on waste generation are legal entities and local units with 10 and more employees for the sections (А-E) CA,which generated waste in the previous year, except division 38 (CA) – Waste collection, treatment and disposal  which are covered all active legal entities regardless of the number of employees. The frame for the sample selection for the sections (F-S) CA is based on the set of legal entities from the Statistical Business Register (SBR) that fulfilled the determined requests on the number of employees and value of turnover. Household waste is obtained by applying a mathematical model to data from administrative sources.

Reporting Units in a survey on the waste treatment are economically active legal entities in sections A-S (CA), which have an appropriate permission to carry out one or more activities in the field of waste management (collection, transport, storage, treatment, disposal).

Republic of Serbia.

Starting from 1999 the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has not at disposal and may not provide available certain data relative to AP Kosovo and Metohija and therefore these data are not included in the coverage for the Republic of Serbia (total).

2008. - 2017.

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In tons.

The survey is conducted  according to the requirements of the Regulation on waste statistics (EC) no. Commission Regulation (EU) No 2150/2002, as amended by 849/2010.

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Data confidentiality is stipulated by:

- Official Statistics Law (Official Gazette of RS, number 104/2009), Articles 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, and 49.

(www.stat.gov.rs/media/2322/zakon_o_statisticie.pdf)

- Rulebook on statistical data protection in the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

(www.stat.gov.rs/media/2343/rulebook-on-statistical-data-protection-in-sors.doc ) 

- Guidelines on measures of data and information protection in the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

(www.stat.gov.rs/media/2341/guidelines-on-measures-of-data-and-information-protection-in-the-sors.doc )

Data that allows statistical units to be identified, either directly or indirectly, are not published. Data is published at the level at which they are not confidential.

Calendar of releases is available at SORS website:

http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/calendar

Yearly.

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The results are published on the website of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia in the publication Ecobulletin as final, and as the Preliminary results in the Communication ZS60 Waste generation and treatment.

http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/oblasti/zivotna-sredina

https://data.stat.gov.rs/?caller=25&languageCode=en-US

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Short methodologies are available on the SORS website:

https://www.stat.gov.rs/en-us/istrazivanja/methodology-and-documents/?a=25&s=0

A quality report was prepared in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. Commission Regulation (EU) No 2150/2002, as amended by 849/2010.

The Quality Policy document is available on the SORS website:

http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/o-nama/sistem-upravljanja-kvalitetom

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On biennial basis (once in two years), by the means of web interview, implemented is the User Satisfaction Survey. The survey results are available at SORS website: http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/o-nama/sistem-upravljanja-kvalitetom.

SORS has provided all the mandatory variables оn waste generation and treatment according to the Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 on Waste Statistics.  A data set of waste generation includes data on waste generated in all sections of economic activity and household waste, and the dataset of waste treatment includes all data on the treated waste by type of treatment.

Statistical units

Legal entities and local units  have been used as statistical unit in the surveys of waste.

For the Construction and Service Sectors (F-S) KD business entities are statistical observation units, so when they are registered to perform more activities the types of waste that are not characteristic of the main activity can be reported.

Errors in precision of quantities

Waste conversion factors have been used if other units have been reported.

For data that were reported in m³ waste conversion factors took over from the EU countries and were modified according to national specifics.

Data collection instrument

Since 2013 data on waste generation and treatment have been collected using two different questionnaires. 

Sampling frame

The sampling frame for 2017 was constructed using frozen version of Statistical Business Register (SBR) as in December 2016. Sampling frame units had the following characteristics:

• Main activity belonged to the Construction (F) section and Services sections (G-S) upon NACE Rev. 2 classification of economic activities;
• Corresponding legal entities were not closed, in liquidation process or bankrupt, according to the data in frozen version of SBR that is provided by Business Register Agency (APR).
• Corresponding legal entities (enterprises or entrepreneurs) had reported financial data for 2016 or were financed form the budget in 2016. 

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The same concept of results calculation is applied throughout the Republic of Serbia.

Data on generated and treated waste according to the statistical classification of waste (EWC-Stat) and Classification of Activities are comparable from 2008.

The use of statistical units and the NACE classification of economic activities makes the waste domain coherent with economic statistics. This allows the computation of indicators based on economic variables (e.g. value added).

The data are to a high degree internally coherent (totals are equal to the sum of the breakdowns).

The information on the generation of waste can not be directly linked to the information on the treatment of waste for several reasons. The generation of waste concerns the waste produced in the country, the treatment of waste the waste treated in the country, so differences can occur due to import and export of waste. Moreover, the generation of waste includes the waste produced by waste treatment activities (sorting, composting, incineration), whereas the treatment table only includes the final treatment. Waste treatment is a process which takes time and in the meanwhile some of the weight might be lost (drying).

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The published data should be regarded as final, unless otherwise stated. Corrections and revisions might occur.

Annually.

Validation of data is done during the entire data processing from input to final results. For the validation of the final set of data on generated and treated waste according to the Waste Statistics Regulation, the rules proposed by Eurostat which are an integral part of the data processing are applied.

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