Introduction and guidelines General information on the EU Waste Statistics Regulation The Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council No 2150/2002 of 25 November 2002 on waste statistics (hereafter referred to as “the Waste Statistics Regulation” or “WStatR”) contains rules for the reporting of waste statistics to the EU1. Reporting in accordance with the regulation is to take place every second year. Reporting shall be submitted each time 18 months after the end of the reporting period. The first round of reporting by all member states was completed by 30 June 2006 and concerned waste generation and recovery and disposal of waste during 2004. This quality report is part of the obligation to report by no later than 30 June 2008 and concerns the generation and treatment of waste in Sweden during 2006. The regulation contains three annexes that describe in more detail what should be reported: Annex I The generated quantities of waste are to be reported for a total of 20 different sectors including - all economic activities (sections A-Q according to NACE Rev.1 or SNI 2002) - waste arising from recovery and/or disposal operations - waste generated by households. The generation of waste for these 20 sectors should be given according to the EWC-Stat waste classification. EWC-Stat is a special material-based waste classification that is founded on the usual list of waste. There are a total of 48 different categories of waste in EWC-Stat. Annex II The treatment of waste is to be reported by treatment method for the different types of waste according to EWC-Stat and broken down by region according to NUTS 1. Up to and including 2007, Sweden comprised one NUTS 1 region. From 2008, Sweden is now divided into three NUTS 1 regions. In this survey we have we have invented waste treatment according to the earlier NUTS classification, that is with Sweden as one NUTS 1 region. 

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¹ An "EU regulation" implies that the legislation is immediately applicable in all member states (in contrast to a directive which becomes ap