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For any question on data and metadata, please contact: Eurostat user support |
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1.1. Contact organisation | Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Institute for Environment and Nature |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Radnička cesta 80/7 10000 Zagreb Croatia |
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N/A (Not applicable). |
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2.1. Data description | |||
'not requested' |
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2.2. Classification system | |||
'not requested' |
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2.3. Coverage - sector | |||
'not requested' |
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2.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
'not requested' |
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2.5. Statistical unit | |||
'not requested' |
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2.6. Statistical population | |||
'not requested' |
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2.7. Reference area | |||
Croatia |
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2.8. Coverage - Time | |||
'not requested' |
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2.9. Base period | |||
'not requested' |
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3.1. Source data | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data set 1: Waste generation by waste category (EWC-STAT) and economic activities (NACE), tonnes/year
Data sets 2 and 3: Waste treatment
Annexes: Annex 1_HR_2020_Description of methods for determining waste generation Annex 5_HR_2020_Determination methods for waste generated by households |
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3.2. Frequency of data collection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3.3. Data collection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development / Institute for Environment and Nature (MESD/Institute) operated as Croatian Agency for Environment and Nature (CAEN) up to 1st of January 2019. Its main activity is the collection and compilation of data and information about the environment and nature, in order to ensure and monitor the implementation of environmental policy and nature, sustainable development and the performance of professional activities related to the protection of the environment and nature. By the Environmental Protection Act (OG No 80/13, 153/13, 78/15, 12/18, 118/18) it is appointed as central information authority of the Republic of Croatia for coordinating reporting and reporting to the European Commission on the implementation of specific environmental protection regulations, including waste. It is responsible for maintaining the Waste Management Information System, enabling and facilitating access to information on waste to decision-makers and general public, developing reports on the status of the waste sector on the national and international level. In 2012, through an agreement with Croatian Bureau of Statistics (CBS), responsibilities for the preparation and submitting of data according to WSR to Eurostat were transferred to the CAEN (MESD/Institute). Data on Waste Statistics for the reference year 2010 and previous years were delivered by the CBS.
By the Act on Sustainable Waste Management (OG No 94/13, 73/17, 14/19, 98/19) and subordinate legislation MESD/Institute is collecting waste data, such as: annual data on produced, collected, treated waste (on-line database); data on waste management permits and certificates (on-line database); data on landfills (on-line database); data on transboundary shipment of waste; data on waste management plans (on-line database) etc.
Maintaining of database The Environmental Pollution Register (EPR) is stipulated by Ordinance on Environmental Pollution Register (OG No 87/15). It contains annual data on waste generators (≥ 0,5 t hazardous and/or ≥ 20 t non-hazardous), all waste collectors and all waste treatment facilities. Electronic software (application) is used for accessing and maintaining the EPR and it enables network data entry, data processing and displaying of data reported in the EPR.
Waste Management Permits Register (WMPR) database contains information and documents on waste management permits (for hazardous, non-hazardous and municipal waste).
Registers for carrying out waste management operations contains Register of Waste Carriers, Register of Waste Management Brokers, Register of Waste Dealers, Register of Recycling Yards and Register of Persons Dealing with Energy Recovery from Waste.
According to the Act on Sustainable Waste Management (OG No 94/13, 73/17, 14/19, 98/19) all landfill operators are obliged to report data on landfills twice a year into the Central Management System for the Data on Landfills of Waste. Database contains general data on technical measures on landfills, data on rest capacities, data on environmental protection measures carried out on landfills, data on status of landfill activity and remediation, data on landfilled amounts of biodegradable waste, data on total amounts of waste landfilled etc. Data collected in this database are used for cross-checking data reported to EPR.
Transboundary Waste Shipment Database (TWSD) contains data from decisions for transboundary shipment of waste which is subject to notification procedure and data from yearly reports on quantities and types of shipped waste by importers and exporters of waste. According to the Act on Sustainable Waste Management (OG No 94/13, 74/17, 14/19, 98/19) importers and exporters of waste are obliged to submit yearly report on quantities and types of shipped waste to the MESD/Institute.
The Environment Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund (EPEEF) is responsible for organizing and monitoring systems for management of special waste categories, as well as remediation of official landfills. According to the ordinances which stipulate the management of special waste categories EPEEF collects detailed data on these waste categories. Data collected by EPEEF are used for cross-checking data reported to EPR.
According to Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 and Regulation (EC) No 142/2011 Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate for Veterinary and Food Safety maintains registers for carrying out anaerobic digestion and incineration of animal by-products. By entering into force of the new Act on Sustainable Waste Management (OG NO 94/13) in 2013 those facilities are also obliged to obtain permits according to the mentioned Act. Hence, data on animal by-products, including data on processed products which are destined for incineration, landfilling or use in a biogas or composting plant from 2013 onwards should be reported to Waste Management Information System maintained by MESD/Institute. |
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3.4. Data validation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3.5. Data compilation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Although the data on sludges are requested only in dry matter since the 2008 data collection, in the table below the amounts of waste generated for the NACE Total are indicated in tonnes of wet matter. This will be important to review the conversion factors that have been used to impute missing data in the past.
For industrial effluent sludges it was used conversion factor 0.27 while for the dredging spoils conversion factor was 0.5 in both case in accordance with Eurostat document “Wet – dry conversion of sludges, ARGUS for Eurostat – Environment Statistics”. For common sludges it was used conversion factor 0.321 was used according to the information provided by the biggest waste water treatment plants. |
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3.6. Adjustment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
From 2017 new EPR reporting forms have been introduced (see Determination of waste generation in the economy on the basis of administrative sources). New reporting forms require more detailed data on waste origin, hence data on produced waste by households are more accurate than previous years. |
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4.1. Quality assurance | |||
The MESD/Institute carry out validation tests to check the plausibility of data, and for an important source, the Emission pollution registre PR, ‘from 31st of March until 15th of May, 20 county offices and the office of the City of Zagreb in cooperation with the competent inspection ensure the checking of data in terms of their completeness, consistency and credibility. The MESD/Institute coordinates activities relating to data quality assurance and control |
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4.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
MOESD/Institute assess the overall quality of reported data as good. |
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5.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
The main users of the data contained in the report according to WSR are:
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5.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
'not requested' |
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5.3. Completeness | |||
Description of missing data in data set 1 on waste generation: NACE A In Croatia straw is mainly used as a product, except spoiled amounts which are very small and no data is available to estimate its amount. Other data which are missing: - Part of the data on packaging waste (pesticides packaging, seeds packaging…), pesticides, discarded equipment, batteries and accumulators, used oils, wood waste, vegetal waste. It is foreseen for the near future to carry out study for the determination, calculation and estimation the waste amounts generated in agricultural sector.
Description of missing data in data sets 2 and 3 on treated waste quantities and capacities: Data are complete. |
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5.3.1. Data completeness - rate | |||
'not requested' |
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N/A (Not Applicable). |
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6.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
MOESD/Institute assess the overall accuracy of reported data as good. |
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6.2. Sampling error | |||
'not requested' |
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6.2.1. Sampling error - indicators | |||
It is not applicable, since our data is a complete inventory. |
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6.3. Non-sampling error | |||
'not requested' |
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6.3.1. Coverage error | |||
'not requested' |
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6.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate | |||
'not requested' |
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6.3.1.2. Common units - proportion | |||
'not requested' |
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6.3.2. Measurement error | |||
'not requested' |
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6.3.3. Non response error | |||
'not requested' |
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6.3.3.1. Unit non-response - rate | |||
'not requested' |
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6.3.3.2. Item non-response - rate | |||
'not requested' |
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6.3.4. Processing error | |||
'not requested' |
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6.3.4.1. Imputation - rate | |||
'not requested' |
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6.3.5. Model assumption error | |||
'not requested' |
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6.4. Seasonal adjustment | |||
'not requested' |
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6.5. Data revision - policy | |||
'not requested' |
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6.6. Data revision - practice | |||
'not requested' |
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6.6.1. Data revision - average size | |||
'not requested' |
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Datasets 1 and 2: As it is mentioned in the previous chapters, data used for the compilation of Dataset 1 and Dataset 2 of WStatR 2020 are mostly based on the data reported by waste producers/holders, waste collectors and waste management companies into the EPR database.
Companies report data via Internet by means of user name and password that are assigned by the MESD/Institute. The deadline for reporting data 2020 was 31st of March 2021. Until 15th of May 2021, 20 county offices and the office of the City of Zagreb should ensure the checking of data quality in terms of their completeness, consistency and credibility by verification.
After the data verification made by counties was finished, the MESD/Institute provided final check of the verified data by the end of the November 2021. In December 2021, data reported into the EPR database were converted by special application to the format requested by WStatR. When data conversion was done, MESD/Institute started with data preparation for the WStatR. Part of the data on animal by-products additionally requested from the Ministry of Agriculture were delivered in January 2022.
After the compilation of datasets 1 and 2 was done (at the end of March), before delivery to the Eurostat, MESD/Institute preformed validation rules according Eurostat recommendation. Results of the preformed validation rules are presented in the section Data Validation.
Dataset 3: Data on number of waste treatment facilities and capacity for energy recovery (R1), waste incineration (D10) and recovery (R2-R11) were extracted from the WMPR database. Validation of the data contained in the mentioned database is carried out continuously during entering data from permits into the database WMPR.
Regarding capacities for treatment of animal by-products, according to the Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 and Regulation (EC) No 142/2011, Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate for Veterinary and Food Safety maintains registers for carrying out anaerobic digestion and incineration of animal by-products. By entering into force of the new Act on Sustainable Waste Management (OG No 94/13) in 2013 those facilities are also obliged to obtain permits according to the mentioned Act. Hence, part of the data on capacities for anaerobic digestion and incineration of animal by-products are provided by Ministry of Agriculture while majority data were extracted from WMPR database.
Regarding data on rest capacity of landfills, according to the Act on Sustainable Waste Management (OG No 94/13, 73/17, 14/19, 98/19), the landfill operator should submit data into database Central Management System for the Data on Landfills of Waste maintained by MESD/Institute. Data should be submitted twice a year within 30 days of the expiry of each half-year period. Therefore, data for 2020 were reported by the end of the January 2021. Validation of reported data was performed during February 2021. |
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7.1. Timeliness | |||
'not requested' |
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7.1.1. Time lag - first result | |||
'not requested' |
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7.1.2. Time lag - final result | |||
'not requested' |
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7.2. Punctuality | |||
'not requested' |
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7.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication | |||
'not requested' |
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On the national level only the comparability of the data on special waste streams is possible because this is the only case of parallel data collection (EPEEF and MESD/Institute).
Data collected by CBS up to 2010 and data collected by MESD/Institute are incomparable because of two different methodologies used for data collection.
Regional comparability of data on waste treatment facilities: Waste management permits are issued for the location of waste treatment facilities. Regarding mobile waste treatment facilities, the permits are issued for each treatment location. If the permit for mobile waste treatment facility is issued for the locations belonging to the two different NUTS regions, this treatment facility is added to the region where the company operator is located.
Data reported according to WStatR were used also for the preparation of environmental indicators and national reports. |
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8.1. Comparability - geographical | |||||||||||||||
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8.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient | |||||||||||||||
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8.2.1. Length of comparable time series | |||||||||||||||
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8.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||||||||||||||
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8.4. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | |||||||||||||||
data from 2012 to 2020 coherent, between 2010 and 2012 there were a few breaks in series marked with a 'b' in the data. |
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8.5. Coherence - National Accounts | |||||||||||||||
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8.6. Coherence - internal | |||||||||||||||
'not requested' |
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The data and information on waste are disseminated primarily on website of the MESD/Institute (http://www.haop.hr/). The web page provides access to databases that contain reported and collected data on waste: publications and reports:
indicators:
public browsers:
Data were also published using LoW classification in Statistical Yearbooks (http://www.dzs.hr/default_e.htm). Regarding clarity, MESD/Institute publishes on its websites legislation, manuals and instructions for companies, questionnaires etc (https://www.haop.hr/hr/upute-prirucnici-i-ostale-informacije-za-obveznike/upute-prirucnici-i-ostale-informacije-za). Additionally, data and information are disseminated by meetings and workshops. Also data and information are available on request by phone and info mail (http://www.haop.hr/hr/kontakt) or Information Access Request in accordance with the Act on the Right of Access to Information (OG No 25/13, 85/15) for the professional and other interested public.
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9.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
'not requested' |
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9.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
'not requested' |
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9.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
'not requested' |
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9.3.1. Data tables - consultations | |||
'not requested' |
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9.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
'not requested' |
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9.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
'not requested' |
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9.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
'not requested' |
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9.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
'not requested' |
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9.7.1. Metadata completeness - rate | |||
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9.7.2. Metadata - consultations | |||
'not requested' |
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There are about 5000 NO forms (from about 2800 companies) and 380 OZO forms (from about 300 companies) filled for reporting year 2020. These forms are prescribed by the Ordinance on Environmental Pollution Register (OG No 87/15). They are filled electronically so there are some prefilled general fields, automatic checks and available data for previous reporting year in order to shorten the time necessary for data submission. If there is a need, according to the reporting obligation of Republic of Croatia, MESD/Institute asks companies for additional information. There are also manuals, instructions and FAQ available on MESD/Institute webpage. |
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11.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
no confidential data in the dataset. |
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11.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
no confidential data in the dataset. |
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Documents attached to this report are:
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env_wasgt_esms - Waste generation and treatment |
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Annex 1_HR_2020_Description of methods for determining waste generation Annex 5_HR_2020_Determination methods for waste generated by households |