Purposes

Collect information regarding the generation and management of packaging and packaging waste as a basis for the assessment of the environmental quality of the European Union and for compliance with other international agreements and the national legislation.

Institutions that intervene

MMA, Autonomous Communities

General description (main variables)

Quantity (in number and tonnes) of packages and packaged products and waste of packages produced (in number and tonnes), typology, reusable packages according to type, packages managed within the State, waste from packages exported and imported, intracommunity trade. Year, management.

Collective

Autonomous Communities, local entities and companies.

Frequency of data collection

Anual.

Breakdown

Nacional.

Budgetary credits necessary for its finance in the four-year period 2005-2008  (in thousands euros)

268.97