Purposes

Have regular, representative and comparable data available regarding the management and use of waste, for the purpose of assessing the national and community policy in this environmental area.

Institutions that intervene

INE, MMA.

General description (main variables)

Amount of waste generated, imported and exported, by type of waste; amount of waste collected, incinerated, eliminated. Type of waste, according to the European Waste Catalogue (EWC). By a combination of census and sample.

Collective

Companies, institutional units.

Frequency of data collection

Anual.

Breakdown

Autonómica.

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

2,727.99