European Topic Centre on Resource and Waste Management

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European Topic Centre on Resource and Waste
Management
Rikke Carlsen, M.Sc. Deputy ETC Manager
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Outline of presentation

• background
• what is a Topic Centre? who is the Topic Centre?
  objective?
• EEA and Eionet
• what is the Topic Centre working with?
• projects for 2005

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What is a Topic Centre?

• are consortia of national institutions
• work under contract with the European Environment
  Agency (EEA)
• assist within a particular topic
• established in 1997 as the European Topic Centre
  on Waste
• contract 2005 - 2008

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Who is the Topic Centre?
Estonian Environment Information Centre
Environment Agency for England and Wales
Danish EPA
Wuppertal Institute
Austrian EPA
Regional Environmental Center
Italian EPA
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What are the resources?

• staff9 full time in Copenhagen11 part time
  with partners
• annual budgetEUR 800,000 (incl. 10 national
  contribution)

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European Environment Agency

• The EEA aims to support sustainable development
  and help to achieve significant and measurable
  improvement in Europes environment through the
  provision of timely, targeted, relevant and
  reliable information to the policy making agents
  and the public

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Eionet
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Work programme 2005
Work area 1 Data collection, processing
and data management Work area 2 Indicators and
fact sheets Work area 3 Support to policy
processes Work area 4 Policy analysis and
assessment Work area 5 Knowledge
sharing Work area 6 Support to member
countries and the EEA
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Work area 1

• Data collection, processing and data management
• data from Eurostat and DGEnv
• Regulation on Waste Statistics
• Cooperation with Eurostat and DGEnv
• Overlapping reporting obligations

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Work area 2

• Indicators and fact sheets
• EEA core set of indicators (37)
• Topic Centre indicators
• municipal waste
• packaging waste
• (domestic material consumption (DMC))

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Recycling of packaging waste by country, 2002
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Municipal waste treatment at country level
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Work area 3

• Support to policy processes
• Emissions from waste treatment
• Development of reporting format for IPP
• Contribution to GHG workshop (EEA)
• Chemicals Information System

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Work area 4

• Policy analysis and assessment
• Use of economic instruments in resource policies
• Assessment of effect of present EU legislation -
  towards increased prevention, recycling and
  recovery?

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Work area 5

• Knowledge sharing
• Wastebase
• Success stories (waste prevention)

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Work area 6

• Support to member countries and the EEA
• Support to West Balkan (CARDS)
• Eionet
• newsletter
• annual Eionet workshop (21-22 Nov. 2005)

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Summing-up

• what is a topic centre
• connection to the EEA and the Eionet
• what we are working with

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http//waste.eionet.eu.int/