Regulation (EC) No 221/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 on waste statistics, as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission (Text with EEA relevance )

5 The Commission shall establish a table of equivalence between the statistical nomenclature of Annex III to this Regulation and the list of waste established by Decision 2000/532/EC . This measure, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 7(3) of this Regulation.

1 Member States shall, whilst complying with conditions as to quality and accuracy to be defined in accordance with the second subparagraph, acquire the data necessary for the specification of the characteristics listed in Annexes I and II by means of: surveys, administrative or other sources, such as the reporting obligations under Community legislation on waste management, statistical estimation procedures on the basis of samples or waste-related estimators, or a combination of these means. The quality and accuracy conditions shall be defined by the Commission. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 7(3). In order to reduce response burdens, the national authorities and the Commission shall, subject to the limits and the conditions fixed by each Member State and by the Commission in their respective fields of competence, have access to administrative data sources.;

4 On the basis of the conclusions of the pilot studies, the Commission shall inform the European Parliament and the Council of the possibilities of compiling statistics for the activities and characteristics covered by the pilot studies for import and export of waste. The Commission shall adopt the necessary implementing measures. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 7(3).;

1 The measures necessary for the implementation of this Regulation shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 7(2). In particular, these shall include measures: (a) for the production of results in accordance with Article 3(2), (3) and (4), taking into account the economic structures and technical conditions in a Member State. Such measures may allow an individual Member State not to report certain items in the breakdown, provided the impact on the quality of the statistics is proven to be limited. In all cases where exemptions are given, the total amount of waste for each item listed in Sections 2(1) and 8(1) of Annex I shall be compiled; (b) for setting out the appropriate format for the transmission of results by Member States within two years from the date of entry into force of this Regulation.

2 However, measures designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, inter alia by supplementing it, relating in particular to the following purposes, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 7(3): (a) for adjustment to economic and technical developments in the collection and statistical processing of data, as well as the processing and the transmission of results; (b) for adaptation of the specifications listed in Annexes I, II and III; (c) for the definition of the proper quality evaluation criteria and the contents of the quality reports as referred to in Section 7 of Annexes I and II; (d) for implementation of the results of the pilot studies, as specified in Article 4(3) and Article 5(1).;

1 The Commission shall be assisted by the Statistical Programme Committee established by Article 1 of Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom .

2 Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof. The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at three months.

3 Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.

4 The Commission shall transmit to the Committee set up by Directive 2006/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2006 on waste the draft measures that it intends to submit to the Statistical Programme Committee.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.