European Waste Catalogue

The Statistical European Waste Classification (EWC-Stat. Version 4) has been published in the Waste Statistics Regulation 2150/2002. This classification is a substance-oriented nomenclature used by European countries to report waste generation and treatment data to Eurostat. Countries such as Malta that collect data according to the European Waste Catalogue can convert the data into the categories of the EWC-Stat by means of the table of equivalence which is published in Annex 3 of the Waste Statistics Regulation.