Statistical office of Montenegro (MONSTAT)

& Environmental Protection Agency of

Montenegro (EPA)

GENEVA, 04 November 2013

Status of waste statistics in MNE - legal basis

National Acts

In the field of Environmental Statistics are used several national legal acts:Law on official statistics and the system of official statistics ("Off. Gazette. MNE No 18/12")Annual Plan of official statistics ("Off. Gazette. MNE No 9/13")Law on Waste Management ("Off. Gazette. MNE 64/11")Law on Environment ("Off. Gazette. MNE 48/08, 40/10, 40/11")

Status of waste statistics in MNE-legal basis

International Acts

In the field of Environmental statistics are used several international acts:Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2002 on waste statisticsCommission Regulation (EU) No 849/2010 of 27 September 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste statistics-Manual on Waste statistics-Waste Framework Directive (98/2008/EC)-Questionnaire on the State of the Environment - Section on waste statistics (Tables 5A,5B and 5C)

Progress made and latest changes in waste statistics since the first workshop

in April 2012

Waste statistics follows implementation of waste politics.

In the area of waste statistics in conduction of surveys is used reporting method.

Surveys are conducted annually. Data sources include acounting and other records

and documents held by reporting units. If there is no adequate documentation and records for some data, data are given on estimate bases.

MONSTAT is carrying out two regular surveys: Statistical survey on municipal waste Statistical survey on waste generated in

industry

Statistical survey on municipal wasteIn the year 2012 survey on municipal waste is

harmonized with provision of Regulation 849/2010.

Reporting units are all utilities with the Secretariat for the local government granted permission to perform public service for collection and disposal of municipal waste.

Through this survey are collected data on public waste collection and disposal by municipalities, source and treatment of waste collected.

Data on municipal wasteare published on MONSTATs website in the form of

Release

2011 2012

Number of reporting units

21 21

Total collected municipal waste (tones)

297 428 279 667

Population (estimate in the midle of the year)

620 556 622 008

Amount of municipal waste/habitant/year

479 450

Amount of municipal waste/habitant/day

1.3 1.2

Statistical survey on waste generated in industry

Survey on waste generated in industry has been conducted from 2012 (reference year 2011).

Survey is harmonized with provision of Regulation 849/2010.

Reporting units are business entities (with 10 and more employees) registered according to the Classification of activities (NACE Rev.2) in the following sectors:

B – Mining and quarrying,C - Manufacturing and D - Electricity, gas and steam and air

conditioning supply

Data on waste generated in industry

Through this survey are collected data on types and quantities of waste they generated, internally process and dispose business subjects from industry.

Collecting of data on generated quantities of waste from industry is carried out with use of Manual of waste classification and waste catalogue, that is harmonised with European waste classification (LoW), which is than converted to Annex I (EWC-Stat/Version 4 with 51 categories of waste) and Annex III (Table of Equivalence) of Regulation 849/2010.

Data are published on MONSTATs website in the form of Release.

Data on waste generated in industry

2011(tones)

2012(tones)

hasardous non-hasardous

hasardous non-hasardous

Mining and quarrying

563 1 227 224 700

Manufacturing 5 825 54 447 3 506 101 790

Electricity, gas and steam and air

conditioning supply

188 495 385 89 351 302

TOTAL(by sectors)

6 576 551 059 3 819 453 792

TOTAL (h + n-h)

557 635 457 611

Cooperation between MONSTAT and EPA

Improved inter-institutional cooperation of MONSTAT and EPA in order to obtain uniform data, trough signing Memorandum on Cooperation in 2011.

In the 2012 cooperation has been extended - Annex I - The agreement on rationalization and consolidation of data collection on statistics of waste in Montenegro.

The cooperation in Annex I is arranged in a way that the security of data and highest data quality will be ensured and at the same time it will not be in conflict with the requirements of the Statistical Law. Because of this EPA will be the official owner of the data.

Sharing of responsibilities between MONSTAT and EPA has been defined.

Pilot projects - waste

In 2013 – Five pilot projects in the area of waste statistics has been conducted:

Pilot survey on number and capacity of waste treatment facilities;

Pilot survey on waste brought to the landfill sites – disposal site;

Pilot survey on waste generated in agriculture, forestry and fishing (NACE Rev.2 sector A) ;

Pilot survey on waste generated in the construction and service industries (NACE Rev.2 sectors F-Q);

Pilot survey on the collection and treatment of waste.

Pilot projects - waste

All pilot projects were developed and prepared. This development includes:

designing of the questionnaire for data collection, preparation of methodology and methodological explanations,preparation logical and mathematical controls and preparation of cover letter that will be added to questionnaire.

Pilot projects - waste

Phases of pilot projects already finished:

Printing of questionnaires and methodology explanations (MONSTAT)Preparation of address lists of reporting units (M&E)Distribution of questionnaires (EPA)Collection of data (EPA)Urgencies for data deliveries (EPA)Logical and mathematical control of data (MONSTAT)Creation of software applications (MONSTAT)Entry data (MONSTAT)Processing of data (MONSTAT)Tabulation of data (MONSTAT)

Pilot projects - waste(EPA)

Pilot projects

Number of reporting units

Number of respond

The response of rate %

Number of employes

Agriculture 16 11 68.7 10 and more

Construction and services

418 219 52.4 50 and more

Landfills 24 24 100 Total

Collection and treatment

52 48 92.3 According EPA permits

Number and capacity

1 1 100 Total

Next steps

Through IPA Project 2011 (time of ending April 2014) and expert support next steps are planed:

Quality control of data – regular and pilot surveysValidation of data from all surveysIntroduction and filling of the Quality ReportPreparation of data for reporting on international levelTwo more workshops (national and regional) with expert support

Main problemsLimited human resources Lack of capacities in reporting units responsible for

delivering data Insufficient development infrastructure related to

waste collection and management Lack of separate collection waste on the sourceLack of data on recovery and disposal operations Very low rate of response in conducted pilot project

on generation waste in construction and service activities

Reporting units delivered data in different measurement units (tons without decimal places, m³, kg, pieces, litres, containers)

To much burden of reporting units  Many of reporting units are not enough educated

with Waste Catalogue and its use All listed problems effect improving of data quality   

Thank you for your attention!!!

natasa.vuckovic@monstat.orgvesna.novakovic@epa.org.me

November 2013