Environmental Protection Agency

Centre for Environmental Analytics, Waste Accounting and Assessment Division

Environment Protection Agency

Centre for Environmental Analytics,

Waste Accounting and Assessment Division

A. Juozapavičiaus g. 9, LT-09311 Vilnius

26 June 2025

26 June 2025

26 June 2025

The report is in compliance with the recycling targets according to the new calculation rules (as set out in Article 6c of Commission Decision 2005/270 as last amended).

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 waste types defined in the European List of Wastes is used to classify waste, but part of waste is subject to a more detailed classification by splitting a 6-digit code into an 8-digit code (waste classifier is defined in the Waste Management Rules):

• the plastic packaging code 15 01 02 has been supplemented with codes 15 01 02 01 (PET packaging) and 15 01 02 02 (other plastic packaging);
• the composite packaging code 15 01 05: with codes 15 01 05 01 – composite packaging with the prevailing paperboard content, and 15 01 05 02 – other composite packaging;
• the metal packaging code 15 01 04: with codes 15 01 04 01 – aluminum packaging, and 15 01 04 02 – ferrous metls packaging.

The statistical classification of economic activities NACE Rev. 2 was used in the sample survey.

Waste disposal (D) and recovery (R) operations correspond to analogous operations defined in Annex I and Annex II of Directive 2008/98/EC. Additional codes (S) are used for waste collection and (or) transport, pre-treatment (sorting, shredding, granulation, drying, etc.), import/export (including waste shipment in/out EU), trade/brokering and temporary storage operations.

Waste generation

• Administrative reporting. Manufacturers and importers of packaged products.
• Sample survey. Non-financial companies, farmers and family farms.

Waste management

Waste management companies and their branches (waste management sites).

The amount of wooden packaging that is repaired is not included in the calculation of the targets.

The amount of metals in incineration bottom ash is not included in the calculation of the targets.

The amount of reused packaging is not included in the calculation of the targets.

Other recovery is not reported.

100%, i.e. waste operators report only energy recovery from R1 operation.

Waste management operators are required to report quantities of waste stored at the start and at the end of reference year.
Temporary storage by materials:

• Glass 973 (at the start 2023 year) and 985 (at the end 2023) tones;
• Paper and cardboard: 6935 and 8975;
• Plastic: 9575 and 7386;
• Metal: 1952 and 2416;
• Wood: 3349 and 3777.

Waste generation

• Administrative reporting. Companies manufacturing or importing packaged products.
• Sample survey. Agricultural, forestry and fisheries enterprises of all types, farmers and family farms.

Waste management

Waste management companies and their branches (facilities).

Waste generation

• Administrative reporting. Companies manufacturing or importing packaged products subject to VAT.
• Sample survey. The survey population consists of farmers and family farms, companies of all legal forms, engaged in agricultural, forestry and fisheries economic activities, employing 5 or more employees. The survey includes companies whose main economic activity is classified under NACE Rev. 2. Section A for Chapters 01-03.

Waste management 

l waste treatment companies, irrespective of their size or the quantity of waste they treat.

The whole territory of the country.

• Administrative data since 2001.
• Sample survey data since 2006.

Not applicable.

Tonnes.

Calendar year

Waste generation:

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/665 of 17 April 2019 amending Decision 2005/270/EC establishing the formats relating to the database system pursuant to European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste.

The Law on Packaging and Packaging Waste Management.

The Packaging and Packaging Waste Management Rules (approved by Order No. 348 of the Minister of Environment on 27 June 2002 as last amended on 01 September 2018).

Waste management:

The Waste Management Rules (approved by Order No. 217 of the Minister of Environment on 14 July 1999 as last amended on 01 January 2018).

The Rules on the Accounting of and Reporting on the Generation and Management of Waste (approved by Order No. 217 of the Minister of Environment on 14 July 1999 as last amended on 01 November 2023).

See above.

• Law on Statistics of the Republic of Lithuania.
• Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European.
• Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament   of the Council on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes of the European Communities.

Pursuant to Articles 14 and 15 of the Law on Official Statistics of the Republic of Lithuania, the data submitted by each company to the Environmental Protection Agency shall be considered confidential and stored in accordance with the procedure established by law. The Environmental Protection Agency shall strictly respect the principle of data confidentiality and shall ensure that data obtained for statistical purposes are used only for the compilation of aggregated statistical information.

Statistical information is published on the Official Statistics Portal according to the approved Official Statistics Calendar.

Official Statistics Calendar.

Statistical information is published on the Official Statistics Portal according to the Official Statistics Calendar, in accordance with the Guidelines for the Dissemination Policy of Official Statistics and the Rules for the Preparation and Dissemination of Statistical Information.

Administrative reporting data - annually.

Sample survey data - annual (every 2 years).

Not available.

Available in Lithuanian on web website of the Environmental Protection Agency, under the heading "Waste->Waste accounting".

The Official Statistics Portal.

Not available.

The website of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Please find more details at this OSP website.

The Packaging and Packaging Waste Management Rules (see section 6.1).

The Rules on the Accounting of and Reporting on the Generation and Management of Waste (see section 6.1).

Data from annual packaging PoM and waste management reports are verified by EPA, i.e. the authority to which these reports are submitted. This obligation for the EPA is laid down in the Packaging and Packaging Waste Management Rules (see section 6.1)and in the Rules on the Accounting of and Reporting on the Generation and Management of Waste (see section 6.1).

• The verification and approval of the submitted annual reports is carried out by the EPA until June 1.
• If the EPA detects inaccuracies, incorrectness and other deficiencies in the submitted data, the company is given a 20-day deadline to eliminate them.
• The controlling authority,  the Environmental Protection Departament (EPD), is informed about the comments submitted to the company regarding the correctness of the data and the deadlines for their correction.
• All the above actions are performed and managed by the Unified Product, Packaging and Waste Record Keeping Information System (hereinafter ‘GPAIS’) tools.

GPAIS has been developed as a verification tool for the accounting of waste generation and management:

• It is supplied with tools for data verification at the moment of entry.
• Waste movements are controlled with the help of modules for processing Waste Consignment Notes and transboundary waste shipment documents.
• GPAIS modules are integrated and ensure cross-checking of data.
• It also has a warning system that notifies EPD about possible irregularities, etc.

EPD performs regular inspections of waste management companies on waste management sites. Inspection data are confidential and available only to environmental authorities.

More details see section 18.4 and the OSP website.

The main users of statistical information are state and municipal institutions and bodies, international organizations, the media, representatives of business and science, students, whose needs are met without violating the principle of confidentiality. Statistical information is used in forecasting and analyzing the development of environmental protection in Lithuania.

Available in Lithuanian on website of the Environmental Protection Agency, under the heading "Waste->Waste accounting".

All regulated indicators are published.

Administrative reporting data

Until the system and accounting of reusable packaging is legally regulated, some packaging may be misclassified, i.e., reusable packaging is considered single-use and vice versa. This is especially relevant for wooden, metal and plastic packaging. For the accounting of reusable glass packaging, this problem is not very relevant, since most of them are covered by the deposit-return system.

The accounting of reusable packaging does not yet comply with the requirements of the Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/665. The current system for collecting data on reusable packaging does not include data on packaging placed on the market for the first-time, rotation, reusable packaging systems. The currently ongoing GPAIS (the Unified Product, Packaging and Waste Record Keeping Information System) update project will also include changes to the accounting of reusable packaging, which should solve the problems in question within 1-2 years.

Sample survey

The sample survey is carried out by sampling methods using a simple stratified random sampling plan.

The census list of farmers and family farms is compiled on the basis of the Statistical Register of Farms. A stratified simple random sample of size n=4000 is selected from the sampling list. Population elements are divided into non-intersecting parts (layers) according to the standard production of farms. The sample includes the 1,000 largest farms in terms of standard output. Farms are also selected, which, according to the data of the Simplified Direct Payments Information System database, had areas of more than 5 ha in the reporting year where forest felling is carried out or allowed to be carried out.

The census list of agricultural, forestry and fishery enterprises is compiled on the basis of the Statistical Register of Economic Entities. In total, about 30% of all enterprises in the population are selected for the survey. The sampling plan is a simple random stratified sampling. Enterprises are grouped by economic activity at the NACE Rev. 2 grade level (group).

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.

The sampling error (coefficient of variation) in 2022 was 1.36%.

Non-sampling errors do not significantly affect the results. There are not many cases of non-receipt of data from respondents, so the non-response rate is low.

The statistical information is published in December after the end of the reference year.

Statistical information is published according to the Official Statistics Calendar. In the event of a delay, users shall be notified in advance, stating the reason and the new date of publication.

Not applicable.

1. The amount of plastic packaging waste generated was calculated using the waste analysis method, previously the PoM method was used.
2. Percentage of ALRs applied to the amount of plastic packaging exported for recycling, calculated on the basis of data from domestic plastic packaging recyclers.

Differences from previous year's data are not relevant.

Full comparability with the statistical information published by the Lithuanian Department of Statistics, all used statistical classifications of Lithuania and Eurostat is ensured.

All calculations are performed according to a common EU methodology; the results are reliable and consistent.

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.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Although the calculation method for the plastic packaging waste generated has been changed, the backward data series have not been corrected.

Administrative reporting:

1. Annual reports on packaging placed on the market by producers/importers;
2. Tax declarations on packaging placed on the market by producers/importers;
3. Annual reports of waste management companies.

Sample survey

The main source of statistical data is a statistical survey of waste generation and management in agriculture, forestry and fisheries conducted every other year (sample of farmers and family farms about 4,000 respondents, sample of all types of companies about 650 respondents).

The waste samples for waste analysis are taken from:

Annual.

See 18.1 and 18.2.

The waste analysis is applied only to plastic packaging waste generated and does not rely on sampling in different waste streams. The applied method assumes that the available waste management data fully reflect the generated plastic packaging waste.

The amount of generated plastic packaging waste ‘M’ is calculated as follows:

• M= Mmix + Msortkont + MsortOther + Msep + MsepPET + Mkomb – Mcont – Msortnontarg , where;
• Mmix – plastic packaging waste content in mixed municipal waste;
• Msort – packaging waste amount generated by the sorting of waste collected in co-mingled containers;
• MsortOther – plastic packaging waste amount resulting from the sorting/pre-treatment of non-plastic packaging waste;
• Msep – plastic packaging waste amount collected separately from households and businesses;
• MsepPET – PET packaging waste amount collected through the deposit return system;
• Mkomb – plastic content of composite packaging;
• Mcont –dirt and moisture content in plastic/composite packaging waste;
• Msortnontarg – amount of non-targeted waste resulting from the sorting of plastic packaging waste.

Composite packaging accounts for less than 2 percent of the total packaging. The quantities of materials in the composite packaging are calculated on the basis of the predominant material and the typical percentage of the most common packaging (TetraPack, packaging for coffee, chips or ice cream (made of plastic and aluminum layers), etc.).
Until 2022 (reporting data 2020), data on the composition of composite packaging was obtained from the information system of the State Tax Inspectorate (STI). Since 2023 (reporting data 2021), due to changes in legislation, the STI does not collect such data. Data on the composition of composite packaging will be collected in the information system of the Ministry of the Environment from 2024 (reporting data 2023). Regarding the 2021 data, the choice was made to classify the entire amount of plastic-dominated composite packaging as plastic, while for the paperboard-dominated composite packaging the plastic and metal content estimate is based on the composition of representative packaging of this kind. For packaging with predominance of undefined materials (others), the plastic content was determined by consulting with the largest suppliers of such packaging.

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

The one methodolody is used.

1. Primary statistical data from agricultural, forestry and fisheries enterprises are collected in the electronic statistical data preparation and transmission system e. Statistika.

The data is presented in the statistical report ATL-01 on the generation and management of waste in agriculture, forestry and fisheries of agricultural companies and enterprises, approved by the Director General of the Lithuanian Statistics Department in 2020. December 17 by order no. DĮ-370.

The form of the statistical report is available at this website (Ataskaitu formos).

2. Primary statistical data from farmers and family farms are collected by filling in the form ATLŪ-01 of the statistical survey of the generation and management of waste in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, the statistical survey of farmers and family farms, approved by the Director General of the State Data Agency in 2023. February 8 by order no. DĮ-32, The questionnaire is filled out in the electronic population survey system e.Statistika.gyventojams or by specialists (interviewers) interviewing respondents online or by phone

The statistical report form and the statistical questionnaire are regularly reviewed and improved if necessary (last tested in 2022) in order to reduce the burden of statistical reporting on respondents.

Not relevant.

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.

To ensure the quality of statistical data, validation and editing of statistical data is performed. The first step is to check that the data meet the mathematical, logical and boundary control conditions. The statistics are corrected for the nature of the error. Errors to be ignored are corrected according to the cause of the error indicated by the respondent. Mandatory errors are always corrected. The statistics are compared with data from previous studies. Data is being edited.

[Source at this website).

Companies must upload signed receipts documents of the shipments abroad to the Unified Product, Packaging and Waste Record Keeping Information System and provide what has been generated after processing.

In the case of exports with a consent, the entire processing procedure prior to final disposal is considered, and in the case of shipment with Annex VII, a contract must be submitted in accordance with Regulation 1013/2006 Article 18.

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 sections below.

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

Until 2011, there were no exceptions to reporting on packaging POM. On a basis of 2008-2010 data for each packaging material, the percentage of packaging POM in quantities not exceeding reporting threshold has been estimated.

Waste management companies reports the following data on waste recycling/recovery (amount in tonnes):
Step 1: input to reprocessor/composting
Step 2: waste generated during processing
Step 3: products/materials generated during processing
Step 4: materials used in processing (if any)
The above-mentioned waste recycling process must be specified for each waste (i.e. for each code of List of Waste) separately.
Non-target wastes and materials (e.g. liquids) generated in Step 2 and 3 are deducted from the amounts reported at the measurement point.

Biowaste treatment plants operators receive waste from waste management companies (waste collectors, sorting plants, etc.).  Both the sender and the recipient of waste are obliged to report the quantities of sent/received waste according to waste codes of LoW and origin, in addition, the sent quantity and waste code cannot differ from the received one. The received by biowaste treatment plant waste is reported as input to composting, in turn, input to composting is considered as recycling.

In 2023, no composite packaging containing plastic was recycled within the country. Only Tetra Pak type packaging with a paper-cardboard, plastic and aluminium content of around, respectively, 76, 20 and 4% was shipped for recycling.

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 sections below

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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