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Montenegro

Waste generation and treatment (env_wasgt)

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Compiling agency: Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT

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Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT as responsible organization for reporting according to the Waste Statistics Regulation for Montenegro delivers following data sets:

  • Waste generation by waste category (EWC-Stat Version 4) and economic activities (NACE Rev. 2),
  • Waste treatment by recovery and disposal operations and
  • Number and capacity of recovery and disposal facilities on national level.
    Montenegro is one statistical region in all three levels which are in accordance with the European statistical standard NUTS.

These data were obtained through the next surveys:

  • Survey on municipal waste
  • Survey on generated in waste and
  • Survey on waste collection and processing.

The data on the number of recovery and disposal treatment facilities and data for number and capacity of landfill sites were obtained from the Survey on number and capacity of waste treatment plants, where the administrative source is Environmental Protection Agency.

Data on waste generation are derived from:

  • Survey on municipal waste
  • Survey on generated in waste and
  • Survey on waste collection and processing

Data on treated waste are derived from:

  • Survey on generated in waste and
  • Survey on waste collection and processing

The data on the number of recovery and disposal treatment facilities and data for number and capacity of landfill sites were obtained from the Survey on number and capacity of waste treatment, where the administrative source is Environmental Protection Agency of Montenegro. 

28 June 2024

Waste is any substance or object which the holder discards or intends to or is required to discard according to Low on waste management ("Official Gazette of Montenegro" No 064/11 from 29 December 2011, 039/16 from 29 June 2016).

Non-hazardous waste is waste whose composition and properties do not have any of the characteristics of hazardous waste.

Hazardous waste is waste containing elements or compounds having one or more of the following hazardous properties: explosiveness, reactivity, flammability, irritability, harmful, toxic, infectious, carcinogenic, corrosiveness, mutagenicity, teratogenicity, eco-toxicity, the property of abrasion and the property of release of toxic gases by chemical or biological reaction and sensitivity / irritability, as well as waste from which, after a delay, other matter may arise that has any of the hazardous properties.

Municipal waste is the waste that appeared in households or during operations which are similar by their characteristics to the waste appeared in households.

Mixed municipal waste is the waste from the household left after separation of some municipal waste fractions for which the possibility of selective collection is envisaged including communal waste packaging.

The landfill site is a permanent site whose primary function is the disposal of waste on or below the surface of the earth, including an internal landfill on which the producer deposits his own waste at the place of origin, except where the waste is being prepared for further transport to the site of processing at other locations and storage places waste before processing with a period of up to three years or waste storage facilities before disposing of it for up to one year.

Waste treatment is the process for obtaining materials or products used as raw materials or the process of preparing waste for production of this material or product in the treatment plant or in a wider manufacturing sense.

Removal of waste is a treatment process that is not processing, even in the event that this procedure results obtaining a substance or energy as a secondary product.

Within the annual survey on municipal waste the observation units are public utility enterprises which the Secretariat for Local Government issued a permit for performance public service of communal waste collection and transportation, and they perform this activity on the whole territory of Montenegro.
Within the annual survey on waste collection and processing the observation units are enterprises engaged in the import, processing or disposal of waste in the reference year, and which have a permit from Environmental Protection Agency.
Within survey on waste generated observation units are business entities with 10 or more employees, whose basic activity is defined in sector: A – Agriculture, forestry and fishing, B - Mining and quarrying, C - Manufacturing, D - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, E - Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities, F – Construction, G - Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles - group 45.2 Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, M - Professional, scientific and technical activities - division 75 Veterinary activities, Q - Human health and social work activities - classes: 86.10 Hospital activities, 86.21 General medical practice activities, 86.23 Dental practice activities and 86. 90 Other human health activities.

Companies (enterprises) with 10 or more employees, whose basic activity is defined in sectors A – Agriculture, forestry and fishing, B - Mining and quarrying, C - Manufacturing, D - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, E - Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities, F – Construction, G - Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles - group 45.2 Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, M - Professional, scientific and technical activities - division 75 Veterinary activities, Q - Human health and social work activities - classes: 86.10 Hospital activities, 86.21 General medical practice activities, 86.23 Dental practice activities and 86. 90 Other human health activities according to Classification of activities 2010.
All public utility enterprises, enterprises that manage landfill sites  and enterprises engaged in the import, processing or disposal of waste in the reference year, and which have a permit from Environmental Protection Agency.
All enterprises that manage over landfill sites or recycling facilities on landfill surface.

Montenegro is one statistical region of the three levels which are in accordance with the European statistical standard NUTS. All data are related to Montenegro.

2022

Data are obtained by reporting and interview method, so they are subject to the usual types of errors - mistakes in processing and non-response. In order to prevent the occurrence of errors, appropriate actions are taken to identify and eliminate potential sources of error.

The unit in which the data values are measured is kilogram.

This section is about collecting data on capacity of treatment facilities.

 

Not relevant.

See the concept 3.1.1 above.

Basic data source for the survey on waste generation was Business Register. In the Survey on generated waste was used cut-off survey (threshold survey).

For the reporting units were selected business enterprises with 10 and more employees.

From the address lists of reporting units, from the construction sector were excluded companies that are not engaged in carrying out construction works (based on the experience construction department of MONSTAT).

From service activities for the reporting units were selected business enterprises with 10 and more employees, including next classes:

  • G 45.2 - Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles
  • M 7500 - Veterinary activities
  • Q 8610 - Hospital activities
  • Q 8621 - General medical practice activities
  • Q 8623 - Dental practice activities and and two large exporter of waste.

Generator of waste which on annual level generate more than 200 kg hazardous waste or more than 20 tonnes non-hazardous waste is obliged to make the plan of waste management in accordance with the Low on waste Management (”Off. Gazette of Montenegro”, no. 64/11).

The survey on municipal waste covers services sector and households. Each unit has to report the amounts of waste on the basis of six-digit LoW codes, later converted to EWC Stat. The questionnaire asks for each of the waste amounts to state the following sources:

  1. households
  2. small enterprises
  3. public institutions

Data on generation of household waste are obtained from three surveys:

  • Statistical survey on municipal waste, and
  • Survey on waste collection and processing -  waste brought to landfill sites by natural persons and
  • Survey on generated waste - waste directly exported from original producers.

Data on generated amounts of waste in service activities are obtained by compiling data from different surveys: data on waste generated in service activities (G - Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles - group 45.2 Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, M - Professional, scientific and technical activities - division 75 Veterinary activities, Q - Human health and social work activities - classes: 86.10 Hospital activities, 86.21 General medical practice activities, 86.23 Dental practice activities and 86. 90 Other human health activities) from Survey on generated waste, data on amounts of waste collected by original waste producers from Survey on waste collection and processing and data on collected waste in manufacturing and service activities from Survey on municipal waste.

Environmental Protection Agency of Montenegro collects data according to Annex 2, WStatR, number and capacity of treatment installations, under its responsibility for the licensing of waste treatment operations (Law on Waste Management "Off. Gazette. MNE 64/11").

Data dissemination frequency is annual.

According to the Annual Plan of Official Statistics and Statistical Release Calendar, the deadline for the publication of the Release was 26 October 2023. Data relate to the previous year.

The data are in line with international standards and data are comparable with the EU countries.

Data for 2022 are comparable with data from previous years.