Wastе from economic activity

National statistical instutute

"Environmental and Energy accounts" Department

Petar Petrov

State expert

2 Panayot Volov St., 1038 Sofia

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 499

Not applicable.

Information is provided about the quantities of waste generated from all economic activities and what happens with it. Quantities of waste passed to other enterprises for further recovery or disposal, and those exported out of the country are shown.

List of Wastes (the Ordinance No. 2/23.07.2014 on waste classification );

European Waste Catalogue.

All economic sectors.

Waste means any substance, object or part thereof, which the holder disposes of, intends to dispose of or is required to dispose of, and is included into one of the categories listed in the Waste Management Act.

Economic entities whose activity causes generation, recovery, disposal, collection or disassembling of waste.

All economic entities .

Territory of Bulgaria

2017-2021

Not applicable.

Tons (with accuracy to kg)

Year.

Law on Statistics

Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics

Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste statistics.

Ministry of Environment and Water

Executive Environment Agency

· Law on Statistics;

· Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.

Individual data are not published in accordance with article 25 of the Law on Statistics. The publishing of individual data can be performed only in accordance with article 26 of the same law.

The date of release of the statistical information is indicated in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. Data is published annually.

The calendar is available on the NSI website: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

Data on Generated waste from economic activity is published on the NSI website, section Environment in accordance with the Law on Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice respecting the professional independence and aimed at objectivity, transparency and equal treatment of all consumers.

Annual

Нot published.

· Electronic Publication "Environment";

· Statistical Yearbook.

Data on Generated waste from economic activity are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Environment: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/5086

Not accessible.

No.

• Own methodology developed by the National Statistical Institute: https://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/Ecology_Method_2_en.pdf;

· Sample survey combined with data obtained from the Executive Environmental Agency.

Quality report according to Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste statistics.

European Statistics Code of Practice;

A common framework for quality management in the National Statistical System.

Good

Main users of survey's statistical information are the state and municipal entities, associations, companies and citizens.

No information. Survey about satisfaction of customers has not been conducted.

All statistical datа are available.

Not applicable. 

Not applicable. 

The data is published according to the terms laid down in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute.

All publications are prepared timely, according to the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute.

Not applicable.

Time series are available beginning 2015.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Cost related to the collection and production of statistics on Waste are announced annually in the National Statistical Programme.

Revision of the data is applied if necessary.

See previous position.

· Sample survey covering enterprises with 10 and more employed combined with exhaustive survey for some economic sectors and activities;

· Administrative data, received from Executive Environment Agency.

Annual

Environmental statistics information system.

Comparing the data to those reported in previous years.

Via Excel and SPSS

Not applicable.