2007/151/EC: Commission Decision of 6 March 2007 amending Decisions 94/741/EC and 97/622/EC as regards the questionnaires for the report on the implementation of Directive 2006/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste and on the implementation of Council Directive 91/689/EEC on hazardous waste (notified under document number C(2007) 634) (Text with EEA relevance )
Date: 2007-03-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: application of EU law, dangerous substance, environmental protection, report, standardisation, waste management

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DECISIONS

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 6 March 2007

amending Decisions 94/741/EC and 97/622/EC as regards the questionnaires for the report on the
implementation of Directive 2006/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste
and on the implementation of Council Directive 91/689/EEC on hazardous waste

(notified under document number C(2007) 634)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/151/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Directive 2006/12/EC of
the European
Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2006 on waste (1),
and in particular the first paragraph of Article 16 thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 91/689/EEC of 12
December 1991 on hazardous waste (2), and in particular
Article 8(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

report

on the

The
implementation of Directive
2006/12/EC has to be drawn up on the basis of a ques-
tionnaire established by Commission Decision 94/741/EC
of 24 October 1994 concerning questionnaires
for
Member States'
implementation of
reports on the
certain Directives in the waste sector (implementation
of Council Directive 91/692/EEC) (3).

report

on the

The
implementation of Directive
91/689/EEC has to be drawn up on the basis of a ques-
tionnaire established by Commission Decision 97/622/EC

of 27 May 1997 concerning questionnaires for Member
implementation of
States'
certain
Directives
(implementation of
sector
Council Directive 91/692/EEC) (4).

reports on the
in the waste

Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of
the European
Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2002
on waste statistics (5) establishes a framework for the
production of Community statistics on the generation,
recovery and disposal of waste.

reporting obligations

A review of reporting obligations on waste data laid
down in Community legislation has shown that certain
laid down in Decisions
data
94/741/EC and 97/622/EC are also covered by Regu-
lation (EC) No 2150/2002 or by Regulation (EC) No
1013/2006 of
the
the European Parliament and of
Council of 14 June 2006 on shipments of waste (6).

the

reporting

obligations

In order to avoid overlaps and unnecessary administrative
concerning
requirements
‘hazardous waste’ and ‘other waste’ should be deleted
term
from Decision 94/741/EC.
‘domestic waste’
term
should be
‘household and similar waste’ in order to align Decision
94/741/EC with Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002.

Furthermore,
the
replaced by the

(3)

(4)

(5)

(1) OJ L 114, 27.4.2006, p. 9.
(2) OJ L 377, 31.12.1991, p. 20. Directive as last amended by Regu-
lation (EC) No 166/2006 of the European Parliament and of the
Council (OJ L 33, 4.2.2006, p. 1).

(3) OJ L 296, 17.11.1994, p. 42.

(4) OJ L 256, 19.9.1997, p. 13.
(5) OJ L 332, 9.12.2002, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1893/2006 (OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(6) OJ L 190, 12.7.2006, p. 1.

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(6)

(7)

(8)

the
Accordingly
hazardous waste
97/622/EC.

reporting

concerning
obligation
should be deleted from Decision

Decisions 94/741/EC and 97/622/EC should therefore be
amended accordingly.

The measures provided for
in this Decision are in
accordance with the opinion of the Committee estab-
lished by Article 18 of Directive 2006/12/EC,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 94/741/EC shall be amended as set out in the Annex
to this Decision.

Article 2

Decision 97/622/EC shall be amended as set out in the Annex
to this Decision.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 6 March 2007.

For the Commission

Stavros DIMAS
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Amendments to Decisions 94/741/EC and 97/622/EC

A. In the Annex to Decision 94/741/EC, the second questionnaire is amended as follows:

1. The title of questionnaire is replaced by the following:

‘QUESTIONNAIRE
for the report of the Member States on the transposition and implementation of Directive 2006/12/EC’;

2. Section II point 4 of the questionnaire is replaced by the following:

‘4. Pursuant to Article 7(1), please give the following details, where available, indicating whether any of the figures

given is an estimate:

Household and similar waste
(tonnes/year)

Total waste produced (*) of which:

recycled (*)

incinerated (*)

incinerated with energy recovery (*)

landfilled (*)

others, please specify (*)

(*) Within the Member State’

B.

In the Annex to Decision 97/622/EC, Section II point 11(d) of the first questionnaire is deleted.