Ministry of Energy

Department for Specific Waste Streams

H-1117 Budapest, Október huszonharmadika u. 18.

29 July 2025

29 July 2025

29 July 2025

Table 1 figures are reported according to new calculation rules, as it is compulsory from reporting year 2020.

The derogation to make use of the delegated act on average loss rates has not been applied.

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

The packaging and packaging waste data are broken down by waste categories (packaging material) and by treatment operation. The reporting methodology and details on packaging and packaging waste are laid down in Commission Decision 2005/270/EC of 22 March 2005 establishing the formats relating to the database system pursuant to Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste. Data displayed in Eurostat's database are broken down by waste categories (waste) and by waste management operations.

Waste categories:

• Paper and cardboard packaging;
• plastic packaging;
• wooden packaging;
• metallic packaging;
• glass packaging;
• other packaging.

Metallic packaging is further split into the categories ferrous metal packaging and aluminium packaging (Table1) and aluminium packaging and steel packaging (Tabl 1a).

Waste management operations:

• a. Waste generated;
• b. Recovery (sum of: c, d and e);
• c. Recovery — energy recovery from packaging waste;
• d. Recovery — other (other than energy recovery and recycling);
• e. Recycling (sum of f, g and h);
• f. Recycling in the Member State;
• g. Recycling in other Member States of the EU;
• h. Recycling outside the EU;
• i. Repair.

Classification of recycling, other recovery and disposal according to Annex I and II. Separate national codes for pre-treatment processes, for preparing for reuse of organic materials and for composting are in use.

Waste management.

We would like to take into account of wooden packaging repaired for reuse.

We would like to take into account of ferrous metals from IBA.

Reuse system of more producers:

• Glass: reuse system of certain wineries with standardized bottles for wines;
• cooperation between breweries reuse system to exchange each others bottles taken-back;
• Furthermore multiple packaging are reused by several producers, most important:
• Glass: bottles for certain wines, beers, spirits, fruit sirups and for certain mineral waters and soft drinks in HORECA-sector
• Plastic: bottles for mineral water, boxes and tanks for different industry usage
• Metal: beverage kegs for beer, boxes
• Wood: pallets, also in leasing-system, boxes

No figures reported to other recovery.

43,62% of Energy Recovery that is from R1 incinerators, out of all Energy Recovery reported. Cement kills were not taken into account at all as R1 incinerators, only in sum of energy recovery.

Reported data through electronic registries.

Information on temporary storage: open and closing stock, balance of separate collected packaging wastes at waste collectors in 2023 (sum of all collectors).

Only some smaller data collections are made directly to this statistics.

Data used for this statistics are mostly collected from other reasons and from enterprises (environmental product fee, waste management data, municipal waste analysis).

Companies putting packaging and packed products on the Hungarian market.

Waste management operators in Hungary.

Hungary.

Year 2023.

No base period.

Tonnes.

Calendar year

European level:

• European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste
• Commission Decision 2005/270/EC of 22 March 2005 establishing the formats relating to the database system pursuant to Directive 94/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on packaging and packaging waste

National level:

• 442/2012. (XII. 29.) Korm. rendelet a csomagolásról és a csomagolási hulladékkal kapcsolatos hulladékgazdálkodási tevékenységekről (Government Decree 442/2012 (XII. 29.) on packaging and packaging waste management activities.
• 2011. évi LXXXV. törvény a környezetvédelmi termékdíjról (Act LXXXV of 2011 on Environmental Product Fee)
• 343/2011. (XII. 29.) Korm. rendelet a környezetvédelmi termékdíjról szóló 2011. évi LXXXV. törvény végrehajtásáról (Government Decree 343/2011 (XII. 29.) on implementing of Act LXXXV of 2011 on the Environmental Product Fee)
• a kiterjesztett gyártói felelősségi rendszer működésének részletes szabályairól szóló 80/2023. (III. 14.) Korm. rendelet (Government Decree 80/2023 (III. 14.) on detailed rules of the functioning of the extended producer responsibility system)

Quarterly data transfer of aggregated, anonymised data of environmental product fee declarations from National Tax and Customs Administration to ministry responsible for waste management. 

Statistics on packaging and packaging waste are in accordance with the Commission Decision 2005/270/EC.

Confidentiality of data collected data or of databases used is guaranteed by the fact, that it is an aggregated country statistics. All data are processed, there is no direct dissemination of data reported by respondents. Furthermore, confidentiality of data submitted by respondents of the few direct data collection is guaranteed by the data collector.

European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

No confidential cells are necessary to use because of the number of respondents. All data are aggregated before being published

Statistical information is not published on national level, only on the portal of Eurostat.

See Eurostat information.

See the release policy of Eurostat.

Annualy.

No national dissemination. For EU-dissemination, see Eurostat's dissemination policy.

No national dissemination. For EU-dissemination, see Eurostat's dissemination policy.

For background data used for reporting waste recycling and recovery figures see:

Hungarian National Environmental Information System (OKIR) Electronic Waste Management Information System (EHIR): Please find information at this website.

See Eurostat's dissemination policy.

See Eurostat's dissemination policy.

No national documentation. For European documentation see Eurostat portal.

No national quality documentation. For European documentation see Eurostat portal.

No specific quality management system is used.

No specific quality management system is used. For POM for the second half-year, two parallel data sources are compared.

National, regional and international users: 

• national government;
• business associations and non-governmental organisations;
• academia – universities, colleges, schools, research institutes, etc.;
• media – newspapers, radio and TV stations, magazines, etc.;
• general public;
• international organisation.

No national user satisfaction surveys are made.

Completeness is according to requirements of EU COM relevant regulations and guidelines.

Material composition of composite packaging recycling is based mainly on composition of POM of composite packaging, which is a hypothesis. 

1. In yearly POM-reports producers report about reusable packaging put on the market. These figures are for reusable packaging, not for actually reused. Actually reused packaging of producers that register itself at waste management authority is in most cases free from environmental product fee/EPR-fee and do not have to be reported. Therefore the figures for reusable packaging contain actually reused reusable packaging only in certain cases. It is also estimated that some amounts are duplicated, as they are reported by producers which do not take care of whether reusable packaging they put on the market has been already used - and are therefore free from product fee/EPR-fee - or not.
2. There is a yearly national reporting obligation for producers reusing packaging about reused packaging in Government Regulation 442/2012. (XII. 28.) about packaging and packaging waste management activities. 

The information in this section is to provide an overarching understanding of the accuracy of any statistical surveys used relating to packaging waste. Some of the information may be available in previous questions.

The information in this section is to provide an overarching understanding of the accuracy of any statistical surveys used relating to packaging waste. Some of the information may be available in other concepts.

Not appplicable.

There are cases when the sold packaging material will be used for the production of non-packaging products. In some cases, producers do not have this information and report and pay for the packaging material that won't be packaging. To estimate this non-packaging reported as packaging, biggest retail chains were asked to provide data about packaging material sales (mostly directly to end-users) in 2023. Figures were extrapolated using market share (all materials except wood). At wooden packaging, double reporting of product fee/EPR-fee because of unclaimed fee was estimated to 10%. 

Reporting by Member State 18 Month after reference period. Dissemination by Eurostat usually 6 months after reporting deadline.

Reporting short before deadline.

The geographical comparability of Member States's reports is ensured by the application of common definitions as in EU directive 94/62/EC, in Commission Decision 2005/270/EU and in EU Commission Guidance to packaging waste reporting. However, as it is an aggregated report using basically databases based on national data collections, and because of the complexity of the report enables certain diffferencies, certain differencies, such as the used databases are present between member states.

Usage of new calculation rules in Table 1 since reporting year 2020: cross-check with waste analysis. Moving production of wooden chips and pellets from wooden packaging waste for energy production from recycling to energy recovery. Reporting according to old calculation rules in Table 1a.

Reports according to Government Regulation 442/2012. (XII. 28.) (see 13.1. point 2.) about reused wooden packaging could have been integrated into figures, however, data accuracy is far not full.

Basis of waste composition analysis (cross-check) is the mixed muncipal waste generated as reported in yearly municipal waste report.

No inconsistensies.

Explanation detailing the causes of the tonnage difference (in relation to which waste streams, sectors or estimates have caused the difference, and what the underlying cause is) for any component of packaging waste generated and recycled which shows greater than a 10 % variation from the data submitted for the previous data year.

All figures are based on reports of producers and recyclers.

Not applicable.

Data revision is connected to:

• check of report by Eurostat and it's contractor;
• plastic own resource EU Commission visit.

No backwards correction.

• Environmental product fee declaration data.
• National Environmental Information System (OKIR) Electronic Waste Management System (EHIR).
• Nationwide analysis of mixed, mixed separate collected and bulky municipal waste (2022-2023).
• Paper waste analysis data of paper mill Hamburger Hungária Ltd.
• Packaging material sales figures of biggest FCMG retailers.
• Reports of producers according to Government Decree 442/2014. on packaging reuse.
• Declarations of energy recovery of RDF/SRF produced by public service providers from mixed municipal waste and separate collected waste residues.

The waste samples for waste analysis are taken from:

Year.

Data.

Nationwide analysis of mixed, mixed separate collected and bulky municipal waste was carried out in 2022-2023, these figures were used.
No analysis, but exact sorting results of all sorted EWC 15 01 to diverse EWCs were used. Analysis of paper and cardboard waste for recycling was carried out by the country's only one paper mill.

Composite material were reported according to material paper, glass, metals, plastics and others (Table1). PoM was reported by producers separately in packaging material codes (80-99) as in Commision Decision 97/129/EK. Material composition in each code was estimated. No less estimations than 5%.

Additional information about the methodology, including the combination of methods used:

National Environmental Information System (OKIR) Electronic Waste Information System (EHIR): Please find information at this website.

Biggest retail chains for fast moving consumer goods were reported about sales of certain packaging materials to end-users for corrections of PoM. Packaging material sold to private households for private aims (such as glasses for preservation and storage in kitchen, aluminium foil for household use, etc.) are not considered as packaging.

No surveys used.

Calculation of recycling of metals from incinerator bottom ash : Detailed description of the method to collect data in order to calculate the amount of metals separated from incineration bottom ash in accordance with the Commission Implementing Act adopted in accordance with Article 37(7) of Directive 2008/98/EC.

See 18.4.1-18.4.5.

Control-mechanism of packaging EPR via National Tax and Customs Authority. Itemized inspection of collection and recycling at Ministry of Energy (state PRO).

Rules and control of transboundary waste shipments according to Regulation (EC) No. 1013/2006 and Basel Convention. Beyond these, mandatory return of copy of Annex VII (green list) to Hungarian competent authority within 3 days.

The columns in the table relate to information on verification procedures used within the national statistical reporting system to validate the accuracy of the data.

The columns in the table relate to information on verification procedures used within the national statistical reporting system to validate the accuracy of the data.

See 18.5.1.-18.5.6.

Primary sources and their shares in the total.

(*) Necessity of a certain minimum amount of waste, turnover etc. to be registered 

Primary sources and their shares in the total.

(*) Necessity of a certain minimum amount of waste, turnover etc. to be registered

Packaging waste generated estimated by waste analysis

 Figures of the last WCA from 2022-2023 were used. Therefore 2022 total waste figures are used for calculation of proportion. 

EPR POM-data is a result of comparison of figures from environmental product fee reports (for both the first- and the second-half of the year) and from EPR-reports (second-half of the year). However, in case of inland production, packaging material (used to produce packaging), not packaging itself is the subject of this product fee. There are cases when the sold packaging material will be used for the production of non-packaging products or they will be used for own consumption and not for production at all. If the producer of the packaging material knows, that there won't be produced any packaging from the material of the customer, the producer can reclaim the fee. However, in some cases producers do not have this information and report and pay for the packaging material that won't be packaging. To estimate this non-packaging reported as packaging, biggest retail chains were asked to provide data about packaging material sales (mostly directly to end-users) in 2023. Figures were extrapolated using market share (all materials except wood).

At plastic packaging, industrial non-packaging applications of typically packaging materials (furniture and decoration plates, edge protection fils) were estimated to 1,5%.

At wooden packaging, double reporting of product fee because of unclaimed fee was estimated to 10%. 

All waste treatment companies are obliged to report amounts treated yearly to National Environmental Information System (OKIR) Electronic Waste Management Information System (EHIR) by EWC. Recyclers have to report recycled amount of an exact EWC without waste amounts that were generated during pre-treatment prior to recycling. Generation and trade/treatment of these secondary wastes - including origin - are to report separate and per EWC.

Packaging waste composting was only included at wooden packaging wastes. All waste treatment facilities report recycled waste into National Environmental Information System (OKIR) Electronic Waste Management Information System (EHIR). Data can be filtered among others according to EWC and treatment operation. Composting facilities that recycle packaging waste all need to have a licence for the specific packaging waste and for treatment R3 according to Annex II WFD or R3c (composting) according to national legislation.

As the state PRO ordered itself the collection and recycling of composite pakcaging wastes, these were known, what type (beverage carton, etc.) they are. Further reported 15 01 05 recycled amounts in EHIR OKIR were classified to 80-99 composite material packaging codes based on PoM share of different material codes. Exact sorting results of sorted EWC 15 01 05 to diverse EWCs reported into National Environmental Information System (OKIR) Electronic Waste Management Information System (EHIR) were also used.

Description of the sorted packaging waste to which ALRs are applied, types of sorting plants to which different ALRs apply, the methodological approach to calculating ALRs at such point(s), including the statistical accuracy of any surveys used, or the nature of any technical specifications.

See 18.6.1-18.6.3.

Above humidity figures are measured, therefore above humidity percentages are figures without taken into account of plastic, paper, metal, etc. from composite packaging. Humidity of composite packaging is measured separately: 19,24%. Total humidity is calculated with composite packaging together. calculation of humidity is not a part of balancing all reported figures on Table1 and Table1a are already after deduction of humidity.

Description, where applicable, of the methodology to exclude non-packaging waste from the reported amount of recycled packaging waste and of the methodology to correct the amount of packaging waste at the measurement point in order to reflect the natural humidity rate of packaging (including by using relevant European standards). Aggregated data across facilities of a similar type is acceptable.

Description of the methodology to exclude waste originating from other countries, where applicable. Aggregated data across facilities of a similar type is acceptable.

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