Implementing decision 2019/1004 - Rules for the calculation, verification and reporting of data on waste in accordance with Directive 2008/98/EC repealing Commission Implementing Decision C(2012) 2384 (notified under document C(2019) 4114) - Main contents

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 163/66

Directive 2008/98/EC provides general calculation rules for the purpose of verifying whether the preparing for re-use and recycling targets for municipal waste for 2025, 2030 and 2035 laid down in points (c), (d) and (e) of Article 11(2) and in Article 11(3) of that Directive have been attained.

The rules set out in Article 11a of Directive 2008/98/EC specify that, as regards recycling, waste that enters a recycling operation or waste that has achieved end of waste status is to be used for the calculation of the targets for 2025, 2030 and 2035. As a general rule, the recycled waste is to be measured at the point where the waste enters the recycling operation. However, Member States may use a derogation and measure municipal waste at the output of a sorting operation, provided that further losses due to treatment prior to the recycling operation are deducted and that the output waste is actually recycled.

Municipal waste entering the recycling operation may still contain a certain amount of waste materials that are not targeted by the subsequent reprocessing but could not with reasonable efforts be removed by preliminary operations prior to the recycling operation. Member States should not be required to deduct such non-targeted materials for the purposes of the calculation of recycled municipal waste, provided that the materials are tolerated in the recycling operation and do not impede high-quality recycling.

In order to ensure uniform application of the calculation rules by all Member States, it is moreover necessary to establish, for the most common waste types and recycling processes, which waste materials should be included in the calculation in accordance with point (c) of Article 11a(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC (calculation points) and at which stage of the waste treatment they should be measured in accordance with Article 11a(2) of that Directive (measurement points).

In order to ensure that the data to be reported on recycling of municipal waste are comparable, the calculation points established for the most common waste types and recycling processes should also apply to waste that has ceased to be waste as a result of a preparatory operation before being reprocessed.

In order to ensure comparability of data on recycling of municipal waste reported by waste facilities in different Member States, it is necessary to set out more detailed rules on how the amounts of sorted waste should be taken into account for calculating the input to the recycling operation, and how the amounts of recycled municipal waste should be calculated in cases where waste treatment results not only in recycled materials, but also in fuels or other means to generate energy or in backfilling materials.

With regard to the calculation of bio-waste separated and recycled at source, the actual measurement of the input to or the output of the recycling operation is not always feasible since such waste is commonly managed by individual households. Therefore, a sound common approach that ensures a...