Ministry of Climate and the Environment  

Statistics Poland

Ministry of Climate and the Environment  - Department of Waste Management

Statistics Poland - Spatial and Environmental Surveys Department

Sebastian Sękalski - Ministerstwo Kimatu, Departament Gospodarki Odpadami, ul. Wawelska 52/54, 00-922 Warszawa

Jarosław Hejne -  Główny Urząd Statystyczny, Departament Rolnictwa i Środowiska, Al. Niepodległości 208, 00-925 Warszawa

Data on waste for the year 2022, submitted to Eurostat and being Polish official data, come from Poland’s new Product, Packaging and Waste Management Database known as BDO, administrated by the Ministry of Climate and the Environment.

The objective of BDO is to collect data being the official source of information on the state of waste management in Poland. Records in this program of statistical surveys on public statistics are brought in on the strength of the Cabinet’s regulations every year. They are submitted to the Statistics Poland and then to Eurostat, the European Commission and other international institutions in the framework of fulfilling the obligation of Poland resulting from the European legislation.

According to the Act of 14th December 2012 on waste (Journal of Laws from 2023, item 1587), each waste holder is obliged to keep in BDO a register of waste on an ongoing basis, according to the catalogue of waste .

According to the Act of 14th December 2012 on waste, a waste holder is any person who actually manages waste (waste producer, any natural person or an organizational unit); it is presumed that the person holding land owns waste located on that property.

On the basis of ongoing waste records, entities submit reports for the previous calendar year by March 15 of the current year. These reports are then initially verified by marshal offices by September 30 of the current year. However, it should be noted that even after this deadline, it is possible to submit further corrections to the submitted report.

Table : Institutions involved in the collection of data and distribution of tasks

Data set 1: waste generation by waste category (EWC-Stat) and economic activities (NACE)

General description of methodology

For all Waste items catategories an NACE groupings the primary data source is BDO.

Methodology has its grounds in the national law. According to the Act of 14th December 2012 on waste, any waste holder keeps in BDO a register of waste on an ongoing basis. The electronic record of waste can be verified by Marshal Offices. In the case of any doubts, it is possible to ask the waste holder to correct data report; also an on-site inspection is possible.

It is based on the legal obligations imposed to waste holders on the scope of the waste from columns 01-19.

At the level of voivodeships the verification of data is based on submitted in BDO annual reports from previous years and accessible administrative decisions.

On the central level the verification of data is provided on the basis of data analysis collected at the same time by Statistics Poland.

The sources are the businesses (18 NACE groupings) and households which generate waste. The waste types are the 51 waste categories for which data is required under the Waste Statistics Regulation.

Determination of waste generation by (sample) survey

This table shows the proportion of waste generation covered by indirect calculation on the basis of waste treatment and how the method is applied.

Row 1 indicates what proportion of waste generation is covered by information concerning waste treatment. This can be done by referring to selected parts of the economy or to selected waste streams. This should be consistent with the table in the concept 3.1.2.

Row 2 identifies the number of waste treatment facilities included in the calculation. The numbers are expected to be equal to the number of facilities in the table in the concept 3.1.8 . Any differences should be explained.

Rows 3 to 4.3 provide a more detailed description of the methods applied. Does the original data set contain quantities of waste classified by the List of waste, by the European waste Classification for Statistics (EWC-Stat) or by a national classification? On what basis is waste which has been treated transformed into waste which has been generated? How are non-specific wastes distributed across sources and how are imported wastes excluded?

Estimation of waste generation in the economy on the basis of models or other methods

Methodology has its grounds in the national law. According to the Act of 14th December 2012 on waste, any waste holder keep a register of waste on an ongoing basis. The electronic record of waste can be verified by Marshal Offices. In the case of any doubts, it is possible to ask the waste holder to correct data report, also an on-site inspection is possible.

It is based on the legal obligations imposed to waste holders generated by economically active units (NACE groupings).

At the level of voivodeships the verification of data is based on submitted in BDO annual reports  from previous years and accessible administrative decisions.

At the level of voivodeships the verification of data is based on data from previous years and accessible administrative decisions.

On the central level the verification of data is provided on the basis of data analysis collected at the same time by the Statistics Poland.

This table is similar to the table in the concept 3.1.4 in that it shows the proportion of waste generation covered by other methods and how these methods are applied. Within this table, a distinction is made between methods based on modelling and other methods.

The data on waste generated is based on municipalities reports. There is no distinction between waste generated by households and waste originated from municipal services or waste from commerce, small business, offices and institutions.

This table focuses on the methods applied in order to estimate the amount of waste generated by households. The various methods are identified in different parts of the table. An important distinction is made between waste generated by households, on the one hand, and waste generated by businesses, i.e. ‘commercial contamination’, on the other.

The BDO administrative base was used for the preparation of the Report. The method used in the system is collecting data directly from waste holders.

The institutions responsible for collecting, analyzing and submitting data on waste are the Ministry of Climate and the Environment and the Statistics Poland.

The legal basis for the development of administrative data is the national Act on Waste and the ordinance on the program of statistical surveys of official statistics for 2022

Administrative data is collected directly from waste holders who enter data in the BDO on an ongoing basis.These reports include inter aliasections on the parameters of particular facilities. In the case of particular types of facilities, the following pieces of information on their capacity are included:

• facilities and equipment providing recovery and disposal of waste, excluding landfills and facilities for thermal waste treatment – objective capacity [tonnes/year],
• landfills – area [ha]: total and in use; volume [tonnes]: objective and in use; amount of waste admitted to deposition [tonnes/year], volume used and volume planned [m3],
• facilities for thermal waste treatment – objective capacity [tonnes/year].

The term of “capacity” has not been defined in the Polish law. However, to achieve a permit for running business activity in the field of waste recovery or disposal in an facility or any other installation, it is essential to provide a detailed description of the methods used for recovery and disposal, to present technical abilities that allow to act in a proper way and to take under consideration the number and quality of the facilities and any other equipment meeting the requirements of the environment protection.

The BDO’s data covers all waste treatment plants. Administrative permits and licenses for waste management are included in the list of permits issued for the generation and production of waste, which are collected in BDO’s repository.

Methodology has its grounds in the national law. According to the Act of 14th December 2012 on waste, any waste holder keep a register of waste on an ongoing basis. The electronic record of waste can be verified by Marshal Offices. In the case of any doubts, it is possible to ask the waste holder to correct data report; also an on-site inspection is possible.

Collective data reports are the source of information on the amount and type of waste processed by a particular waste holder, as well as a kind of treatment operation.

This table identifies the number of waste treatment facilities, which are included in or excluded from the compilation of data. There can be several reasons for excluding waste treatment operations: because they treat only internal waste, because they are pre-treatment facilities or because the capacity is below a nationally defined threshold, etc.

This table gives details of the registers used to gather information on waste treatment. 

Classifications and breakdowns that are used in the data:

1. NACE classifications (any breakdowns) -implemented as  POLSKA KLASYFIKACJA DZIAŁALNOŚCI (PKD 2007).
2. EWC-Stat ver.4 (any breakdowns).
3. KATALOG ODPADÓW ZE WSKAZANIEM ODPADÓW NIEBEZPIECZNYCH -  Polish equivalent of European List fo waste

National deviations: there are specific Polish codes that have remained in the legal basis, because entrepreneurs asked for it. Some extra types of waste, which referred to particular codes (marked '80'), They were also taken under consideration by assigning their value to a particular code in EWC-STAT catalogue. The detailed table of the transposition is attached as the annex 1 of QR.

In accordance with the requirements of Waste Statistics Regulation.

In accordance with the requirements of Waste Statistics Regulation.

In accordance with the requirements of Waste Statistics Regulation.

In accordance with the requirements of Waste Statistics Regulation.

Poland.

Reference year: 2022; in accordance with the requirements of Waste Statistics Regulation.

In accordance with the requirements of Waste Statistics Regulation.

Data is measured in metric tonnes.

2022 In accordance with the requirements of Waste Statistics Regulation.

• Jurnal of Laws 2023 item 773.
• Jurnal of Laws 2023 item 1587.

Data is shared through VPN protected networks in encrypted files.

Confidentiality is kept as mandated in the Polish Jurnal of Laws 2023 item 773.

No data considered confidential is released for publication transfered to any entity outside of Statistics Poland or provided to employes not directly involved in reporting.

Not applicable to reporting, data is made public after validation by Eurostat.

Not applicable to reporting, data is made public after validation by Eurostat.

Not applicable to reporting, data is made public after validation by Eurostat.

Statistics are dissiminated over a period of four months two years after the refference year.

No ad-hoc press releases linked to data.

These data will be  presented in publications of Statistics Poland: to the largest extent in an annual branch publication prepared by the Agriculture and Environmental Surveys Department. These publications are available on this website.

Data on facilities is presented in Statistics Poland’s database - DBW.

Not available.

Microdata is not disseminated.

Not applicable.

Not available.

Statistics Poland published its methodology on waste statistic in 2020. Name of publication: Methodological report environment protection.

estimated 70%

Name of publication: Methodological report environment protection.

Methodological report environment protection.

Statistics Poland is responsible for report elaboration and transmission and for this purpose cooperates with Ministry of Climate and Environment  responsible for data which are collected in database BDO This cooperation is assessed as good.

We aim for adaptation statistical survey’s forms and administrative reporting patterns to the information needs of users, including the European Commission.

We aim for adaptation statistical survey’s forms and administrative reporting patterns to the information needs of users, including the European Commission.

All mandatory data cells except backfilling for subregions of Makroregion Województwo Mazowieckie are available.

Two mandatory data cells are unavailable.

Facilites data for backfilling is missing for region Warszawski Stołeczny an region Mazowiecki Regionalny.

In Poland keeping a record of waste is mandatory for all waste holders upon Act of 14^th December 2012 on waste, so there is no need of running surveys in this field. Described data comes from an administrative database.

Not applicable no sampling reqiured.

Not applicable no sampling reqiured.

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In the field of generation of waste (Annex I) as well as its processing (Annex II), keeping a record is mandatory for all waste holders. Owing to that, it may be claimed that 100% of waste holders are covered by the system of obtaining administrative data. Data are obtained by administrative Database BDO which is run by the Minister of Climate and the Environment.

In the Regulation of 23th December 2019 on  types  and amounts of waste for which there is no obligation to keep waste records which shall not require the keeping of waste records there has been indicated what types and amounts of waste generated yearly by a waste holder, release him from keeping a mandatory waste record (Journal of Laws from 2019, item 1431) . 

In the field of generation of waste (Annex I) as well as its processing (Annex II), keeping a record is mandatory for all waste holders. Owing to that, it may be claimed that 100% of waste holders are covered by the system of obtaining administrative data. Data are obtained by administrative Database BDO which is run by the Minister of Climate and the Environment.

In the Regulation of 23th December 2019 on  types  and amounts of waste for which there is no obligation to keep waste records which shall not require the keeping of waste records there has been indicated what types and amounts of waste generated yearly by a waste holder, release him from keeping a mandatory waste record (Journal of Laws from 2019, item 1431) . 

In the field of generation of waste (Annex I) as well as its processing (Annex II), keeping a record is mandatory for all waste holders. Owing to that, it may be claimed that 100% of waste holders are covered by the system of obtaining administrative data. Data are obtained by administrative Database BDO which is run by the Minister of Climate and the Environment.

In the Regulation of 23th December 2019 on  types  and amounts of waste for which there is no obligation to keep waste records which shall not require the keeping of waste records there has been indicated what types and amounts of waste generated yearly by a waste holder, release him from keeping a mandatory waste record (Journal of Laws from 2019, item 1431) . 

In the field of generation of waste (Annex I) as well as its processing (Annex II), keeping a record is mandatory for all waste holders. Owing to that, it may be claimed that 100% of waste holders are covered by the system of obtaining administrative data. Data are obtained by administrative Database BDO which is run by the Minister of Climate and the Environment.

Types and amount of waste for without waste record b obligation

Because of option on waste transfer to natural persons there could be problems with identifying amounts of waste recovered by these group. As above

The most commonly committed and discovered errors are:

• false classifications of types of waste,
• submitting data on the amount of waste in false units - kilograms, litres and pieces instead of tonnes (the most common error)

As for waste treated, there are no exclusions in the system of collecting administrative data for the facilities processing not defined type of waste. All facilities for waste treatment/processing are obliged to submit data on the range of their activity.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

* for the needs of the GENER dataset (occurring in the administrative system / participating in the statistical survey)

Inert waste and unpolluted soil are classified with the appropriate waste codes. European waste catalog does not provide a separate code for inert waste and unpolluted soil, which makes it difficult to identify them (a matter of exclusions from 2006/21/EC and 2008/98/EC directives are separate issue).

Allocation waste to NACE code based on Polish Classification of Economic Activities of waste holder. Mining waste generated by units operating in the mining industry are allocated in NACE section B.

See table in the concept 3.1.8.

According to the definitions included in the Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 of 15^th of March 1993 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community (Official Journal L 076/1, 30 March 1993), a statistic unit is any enterprise itself and its local unit.

In the field of the amount of generated and processed waste the following  rule is kept:

• in case of hazardous and other than hazardous waste the waste holders keep a record in tonnes to three decimal places (accuracy up to 0,1 kg).

In Polish administrative data database (BDO) incentives for over- or under-reporting do not exist.

Instruments to reduce potential risks and avoid errors are data analyses of generated and treated waste by voivodeships. Each type of waste is verified separately. Verification lies in comparing the above data with statistic data collected by Statistics Poland in the framework of OS-6 and M-09 surveys and analyzing administrative data concerning waste on a national level, for each voivodeship, and for each type of waste.

In case of IWMS there is no possibility of defining how many waste holders prepare an annual collective data report for reference year or send it timely to a proper Marshall Office. For this reason administrative data are compared to statistical data. The result of the analysis is the thesis that level of amount of generated and treated waste are comparable. It means that waste holders which generate or/and treat a lot of waste are included in statistical survey OS-6 and in IWMS.

As the survey on municipal waste is a full survey, all entities which conduct activity connected with collecting and treating municipal waste are covered. When  reporting  units do not submit M-09 in proper time, they are reminded about this obligation by phone or in writing. Each year Statistical Offices apply to local authorities (gminas) to check the register of companies collecting or treating municipal waste.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Stages of elaboration of data on generation/treatment of waste from Statitics Poland.

1. Collecting administrative data in BDO (Province Marshal Offices  verifiy and accept waste holdres).
2. Analyzing data concerning waste generation by voivodeships and types of waste. Each type of waste is verified separately. Verification lies in comparing the above data with statistic data collected by Statistics Poland in the framework of OS-6 and M-09 surveys and between individual years.
3. Analyzing administrative data concerning waste generation on a national level for each voivodeship and for each type of waste. Verification of administrative data is based on the comparison of these data with statistical data collected by Statistics Poland in the framework of OS-6 and M-09 surveys.
4. In case of obtaining false values for any particular waste in the course of analyzing, verification is conducted at the level of waste holders.
5. Submitting the corrections of wasteholders reports.
6. Determining the level of waste generated in Poland on a national level by voivodeships and types of waste.
7. Transmission of obtained data to Central Statistical Computing Center, which elaborate findings on NACE classification level of aggregation (Poland, voivodships).
8. Analyzing data connected with treated waste by voivodeships and types of waste. Each type of waste is verified separately. Verification lies in comparison of data with the statistical data on treated waste collected by  Statistics Poland  in the framework of OS-6 and M-09 surveys and between individual years.
9. In case of obtaining false values for particular waste, verification of these data at the level of wasteholder.
10. Analyzing administrative data connected with waste treatment on a national level by each  and each type of waste. Balancing the amount of waste on a national level, taking under consideration uneven placement of waste recovery and disposal installations in the area of Poland. Acceptance waste movement among the voivodeships.
11. Determining the level of waste treated in Poland on a country level by types of waste.
12. Elaborating data reports according to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002.

For 9 years of reporting the number of processing errors is low.

Not applicable, no modeling is used.

As per reporting dedline data for the refference year 2022 is transmited by June 2024.

Timeliness for BDO

From the last day of the reference period to the day of publication of first results there were 16 months.

See point 14.1.1.

Once final data and metadata files are available they are transmitted via edanis and ess-mh respectively.

Data and metadata to be published by 30 June 2025.

As it comes to Backfilling, the data collected concerns waste recovered outside facilities as described in the Regulation of the Minister of the Environment of 11^th May 2015 on waste recovery and disposal outside installations (J.O.L  of 2015, position 796). Waste taken into account (see the list of codes below) can be used according to the above mentioned Regulation for operation R3, R5,

List of waste codes: 010101, 010102, 010180, 010306, 010308, 010408, 010409, 010410, 010411, 010412, 010413, 010481, 100101, 100102, 100105, 100115, 100124, 100180, 100182, 100201, 100208, 100214, 100580, 100680, 100903, 100906, 100908, 100910, 100912, 101006, 101008, 101010, 101201, 101203, 101206, 101208, 101382, 120121, , 170101, 170102, 170504, 170508, 191209, 191306

Apart from mineral waste, waste code 19 13 06( sludges from groundwater remediation other than those mentioned in 19 13 05) are used as backfilling.

Waste import/export isn't covered by mandatory reporing and wasn't provided.

BDO is used as a data source for the purposes of the Regulation 2150/2002 on waste statistics. This source provided data for all waste streams and sources. In particular, the change is that municipal waste also came from this database on the basis of reports from gmina (local governments).

In Poland, mixed municipal waste cannot be processed without prior segregation (with some exceptions). Segregation is a pretreatment process that is not covered by WStatR reporting. After initial segregation, municipal waste no longer has the code 200301, but one of the group 19 codes that fall into other EWC-Stat categories (including Mixed and undifferentiated materials or Sorting residues). Now reporting is done in real time and the operations are reported according to the waste codes to which they are actually subjected. We do not have a systemic ability to track changes to waste codes.

Data is availabe since 2004.

Administrative data (from BDO database) are compared to statistical data published in Poland and used to prepare other reports for Eurostat. The levels of amounts of waste from both sources of data (administrative and statistical sources) are comparable, because both systems collect data from waste holders which generate or/and treat significant amount of waste. The statitics are coherent because of using the same classifications.

Not applicable.

Sub annual statistics aren't measured.

Values match national account for the shared population.

Data is fairly consistent within the data sets. Generation values differ in a few categories in comparison to 2020 data.

The main cost is incured by the Ministry of Climate and Enviroment which is not considered as an Other National Authority on Statistics. Cost to respondents is difficult to estimate since they are required by law to report the BDO database for other purposes. No cost of ONA'S known.

At this moment the entrepreneurs are doubly burdened. It results from the objective of introducing a new database of collecting data in Poland. For the last years data collection was run in two ways: by filling forms in the framework of the mandatory statistical surveys run by Statistics Poland (OS-6 and M-09) and by keeping an obligatory waste record and preparing collective data reports, according to the mandatory obligation put on the waste holders in compliance with the Act  of 14^th December 2012 on waste.

The most burdened entities are those that generate more than 1 thousand tonnes of hazardous waste per year and other than hazardous in total (excluding municipal waste), or possesses 1 million tonnes or more of accumulated waste.

Data are revised and clarified in each level (each institution) of elaboration data, waste holder, Marshal Offices, Ministry of the Climate and the Environment, Statistics Poland.

Data are revised and clarified in each level (each institution) of elaboration data, waste holder, Marshal Offices, Ministry of the Climate and the Environment, Statistics Poland.

Not available.

See the concept 3.1.1 above.

Data on waste for the year 2022, submitted to Eurostat and being Polish official data, come from Poland’s new Product, Packaging and Waste Management Database known as BDO, administrated by Ministry of the Climate and Environment.

The objective of the Product, Packaging and Waste Management Database (BDO) is to collect data being the official source of information on the state of waste management in Poland. They are submitted to the Statistics Poland and then to Eurostat, the European Commission and other international institutions in the framework of fulfilling the obligation of Poland resulting from the European legislation.

According to the Act of 14th December 2012 on waste (Journal of Laws from 2023, item 1587), each waste holder is obliged to keep a register on an ongoing basis of waste, according to the catalogue of waste .

According to the Act of 14th December 2012 on waste, a waste holder is any person who actually manages waste (waste producer, any natural person or an organizational unit); it is presumed that the person holding land owns waste located on that property.

Records in database BDO are accepted every year in the period between 15th of March and 30th of September by Marshal Offices. According to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No. 2150/2002, data on waste for the year 2022 from BDO were subjected to the comparative assessment by means of OS-6 - Survey on waste (excluding municipal waste) - statistical survey results as a related standard of aggregated waste data for the same year.and M-09 survey on municipal waste collection and treatment. OS-6 and M-09 are two mandatory annual statistical surveys conducted by the Statistics Poland.

The data are analyzed at the level of voivodeships (NUTS 2) and whole Poland (NUTS 0), according to the groups, subgroups and types of waste (in compliance with the list of waste).

Annualy.

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Administrative data is collected directly from waste holders who enter data in the BDO on an ongoing basis.These reports include inter alia sections on the parameters of particular facilities. In the case of particular types of facilities, the following pieces of information on their capacity are included:

• facilities and equipment providing recovery and disposal of waste, excluding landfills and facilities for thermal waste treatment – objective capacity [tonnes/year],
• landfills – area [ha]: total and in use; volume [tonnes]: objective and in use; amount of waste admitted to deposition [tonnes/year], volume used and volume planned [m3],
• facilities for thermal waste treatment – objective capacity [tonnes/year].

The term of “capacity” has not been defined in the Polish law. However, to achieve a permit for running business activity in the field of waste recovery or disposal in an facility or any other installation, it is essential to provide a detailed description of the methods used for recovery and disposal, to present technical abilities that allow to act in a proper way and to take under consideration the number and quality of the facilities and any other equipment meeting the requirements of the environment protection.

Data are validated in each level (each institution) of elaboration data, waste holder, Marshal Offices, Ministry of the Climate and Environment, Statistics Poland.

Rules validation we used:

• completeness’ databases;
• comparing data on generated waste in each type by each NACE aggregation with adequate for previous years;
• comparing data on treatment waste in each type with adequate for previous years;
• comparison generation to treatment the same type of waste;
• implausible combinations treatment operation / waste categories;

Checks applied manually using generic software: consistency between the data of each statistical unit in the same data collection instance (e.g. detection of outliers), consistency of national aggregates with historical data (time series check), coherence of national aggregates with other related datasets of the  Statistics Poland.

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

Not applicable.

The figures above pertain to wet matter for sludges generated. Data on wet and dry weight come from the database BDO

The figures above pertain to wet matter for sludge treated. Data on sludges in wet weight comes from BDO. Data on sludges in dry weight were calculated on the basis of indicators.

Comparing BDO database data with OS-6 and M-09 survey data for corresponding entities.

Not applicable.

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