State Ltd Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Center

Chemicals and Hazardous Waste Division

Maskavs street 165, Riga, Latvia, LV-1019

Waste statistics in Latvia based on:

-       State Statistical Law (04.06.2015.);

-       Law On Pollution (15.03.2001);

-       Law on Environmental Protection (02.11.2006.);

-       Law on Waste Management (28.10.2010.);

-       Regulation of Cabinet of Ministers No 271 (23.05.2017.) „Regulations about environmental protection official statistical forms“;

-       Regulation of Cabinet of Ministers No 135 (22.02.2011.) „Requirements for ELV treatment and environment requirements for treatment facilities“.

-       Regulation of Cabinet of Ministers No 302 (19.04.2011.) „Regulations on waste classification and characteristics what making waste hazardous“.

-       Regulation of Cabinet of Ministers No 319 (26.04.2011.) „Regulations on waste recovery and disposal operations“.

General data source for waste statistics is annual State Statistical survey “3-Wastes”, which is developed by Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Center (LEGMC). State Environmental Service (SES) Regional Environmental Boards (REB) are responsible for data checking and approving. “3-Wastes” is based on law’s and regulations mentioned before. Data input is done by enterprises directly in online data base.

For waste clasification EWC codes are used. For treatment activities R and D codes.

Statistical survey about wastes must report:

• Operators who had in current year a permit for A and B category polluting activities, and permit for C category activity for all type of repair shops of mechanical land transport, mobile agriculture and other moveable non used on reads machinery;
• Waste management companies who got respective permit;
• Waste merchants and intermediaries of waste management;
• Waste management operators who import of export waste for regeneration or recovery of energy accordingly EC Regulation Nr. 1013/2006 and the Basel Convention;
• Generator of waste who exports waste for disposal, recycling or regeneration.

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Latvia

Annual 

One year

General data source for waste statistics is annual State Statistical survey “3-Wastes”, which is developed by Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Center (LEGMC). State Environmental Service (SES) Regional Environmental Boards (REB) are responsible for data checking and approving. “3-Wastes” is based on law’s and regulations mentioned before. Data input is done by enterprises directly in online data base.

The annual waste survey “3-wastes” consists of six different parts:

-       Part A. General Information on waste generators, collectors, recyclers and disposers. Contains NACE code, territorial code.

-       Part B. filled in by waste generators. Contains among others the quantities of wastes stored in the beginning of the year, generated during the year, delivered to other waste owners, exported and stored at the end of the year. Contains also information on waste disposal and recovery (waste quantities and R- and D-codes).

-       Part C. filled in by waste management companies. Contains among others the quantities of wastes stored in the beginning of the year, collected in the year, delivered to other waste owners, exported, imported and stored at the end of the year. Contains also information on waste disposal and recovery (waste quantities and R- and D-codes).

-       Part D.  filled in by waste management companies. Contains amounts about collected wastes in municipalities under contracts with municipalities.

-       Part E. filled in if wastes are imported. Contains information on country, EWC code and imported quantity.

-       Part F. filled in if wastes are delivered to other enterprises. Contains information on the receiving companies as well as waste quantities per EWC codes or stream class.

Data about End of life vehicles (ELV) are taken from information which is received from questionnaires about ELV from regulations of Cabinet of Ministers. 

Other data source is a sample survey, which is based on enterprises responses on survey questionnaires. These activities are occurring like common projects where CSB and LEGMC are involved.

In this Quality Report (QR) and given data sets – waste data from agricultural sector for Waste items 10.11, 1.3, 2.31 and different material packaging are taken from a sample survey carried out in year 2021 about 2020 data from agricultural farms.

To determine sector HH amounts “3-Wastes” survey data are used. Delivered waste to other enterprises is subtracted from waste amount collected from primary generators. In sector HH amounts from households and enterprises which do not provide data with annual waste survey are calculated.

Data from “3-Wastes” about manure and slurry are excluded from reporting. According to manure management systems in Latvia, these amounts should not be counted as waste. Also data about animal and plant tissue  and digestate wastes are exclude.

Construction wastes (Waste item 12.1) for F and HH sectors is determined as all collected wastes. Meanwhile construction companies are not subjects which provides annual waste survey, waste amount determination between households, small businesses and construction companies is not possible.

Data about Common sludges (11) are taken from State Statistical survey "2-Water". Sludges are reported as dry matter.

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Data collection are done by "3-Waste" survey ( see data source 3.1 chapter)

State Environmental Service (SES) Regional Environmental Boards (REB) are responsible for data checking and approving. “3-Wastes” is based on law’s and regulations mentioned before. Data input is done by enterprises directly in online data base.

Data for WSTAT report are compiled by LEGMC.

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State Environemnt Service do the quality check of surveys. LEGMC do the total quality review for summary data.

Quality of data is managed by SES.

Summarized waste data is used for waste management planning. Projections of waste quantities, as well as waste treatment potential for the UNFCCC and LRTAP also is done according to “3-Wastes” collected data.

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No information about smpling errors.

No information about smpling errors.

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¹⁾Please mark with an X whether the listed materials are completely covered, partially covered or generally excluded from waste statistics.

 Only biggest mining enterprise reported with “3-Wastes” survey their wastes amounts. Amounts are reported in B column in Generation table. Mostly there are not reported remains of mining. Remains of mining and quarrying mostly are not classified as wastes. Reported wastes in B sector are unsorted municipal wastes, oils etc.

No estimations are done how much enterprises are not covered by “3-Wastes” survey in each NACE sector. Of course, there are some enterprises which do not report in particular year. LEGMC together with State Environmental Service work hardly to collect data from all facilities which correspond to requirements.

100% of waste management companies are covered by survey. All polygons and biggest treatment facilities yearly are controlled by SES REB’s.

Some of collected data are excluded from reported amounts due to inconsistencies with waste definition. Some of facilities reported that incineration of wood remains is R1. Mostly these are small rural heat houses without any permits on waste incineration, in fact this activity must be classified as heating and wood remains as fuel.

Metal scrap collection no estimated as waste collection and treatment.

Animal manure generation and treatment is not considered as waste management.

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In new waste polygons weighing-machine is used. In others landfills, where registration done in cubic meters, recalculation coefficients are used which are provided by LEGMC. All landfills used the same coefficients. Weighing and recalculation errors are not estimated.

Few IPPC or waste management enterprises do not report with “3-Wastes” survey without vindictive reasons. Missing of the biggest waste generators, collectors, recyclers, disposers, according to previous years, are impossible because these enterprises always are asked to fill or explain non filling of survey.

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Not all A and B category enterprises fill “3-Wastes” reporting questionnaire.

For non filling are some reasons:

- For the reporting year enterprise do not have IPPC permit, because permitting are in progress in Latvia;

- In the reporting year enterprise have IPPC permit, but in fact it is out of order;

- Changes in permits - change the permit category to C.

These reasons must be taken in account when reporting completeness is estimated. Year by year number of reporting enterprises increase and survey completeness became much better. For year 2020, there is not 100% coverage of enterprises.

Waste coding is done according to EWC. For specific wastes types coding is very unclear for some enterprises, because EWC contains many codes, which could be used for one waste type classification.

Problematic waste types:

-       Waste oils;

-       Metal wastes;

-       Paper and cardboard;

-       Wood waste;

-       Organic (food) waste.

In “3-Wastes” data base is inflict control between delivered and received waste codes and amounts. It is impossible to approve enterprise data, if there is shown in delivered (E) table enterprises, which does not report on receiving that kind of wastes. In that case inspectors need to clarify between these two enterprises which code is correct.

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Data about about previous calnedar year is available in 15th of July. That date report must be prepared.

Data about about previous calnedar yaer is available in 15th of July. That date report must be prepared.

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3-Waste is a online data base. Summaries and reports are availble in LEGMC web page - http://parissrv.lvgmc.lv/#viewType=home_view. All information is in latvian language.

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In 2020 survey 3543 questionnaires were reported about wastes. The most difficulties in filling in of the survey are for the biggest waste collection companies, because they have a lot of waste types which they deal with. For other enterprises “3-Wastes” survey is easier to fill. If the company has properly formulated IPPC permit conditions, where all possible types of waste are described with EWC codes, then filling in "3-Waste" takes place without difficulty. Big production enterprises use environmental consulting company’s service for many issues and also for environmental survey filling.

For year 2020 data no confidentiality requirements. Confidentiality about waste data is under the review in Latvia (summer 2022).

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