Purposes

Have regular, representative and comparable data available regarding the management and use of waste, for the purpose of assessing the national and community policy in this environmental area.

Institutions that intervene

INE

General description (main variables)

Amount of waste generated, imported and exported, by type of waste. Amount of waste collected, incinerated, eliminated. By a combination of census and sample.

Collective

Companies, institutional units

Frequency of data collection

Anual

Breakdown

Autonómica

Budgetary credits necessary for its finance in the four-year period 2001-2004  (in thousands euros)

1,058.86