Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2002 on waste statistics (Waste Statistics Regulation) came into force on 29 December 2002. The Regulation establishes a framework for the production of Community statistics on the generation, recovery and disposal of waste.
The Regulation was designed after careful consideration of the complexities and difficulties of producing waste statistics.
The Eurostat dissemination database (EUROBASE)' Database' contains the full range of public data available at Eurostat. They are presented in multi-dimensional tables with multiple selection features and export formats.
EUROBASE has been updated with the 2009 data concerning the generation and treatment of waste. 2009 data is available for the 27 European Union Member States and Croatia, Turkey and Norway. To access the data please click on the icons below. The complete statistical database is accessible by clicking on the icon .