EEA geospatial data catalogue
Reuse flows according to the implementing decision (EU) 2021/19, 2024
This is the metadata covering the data on reuse. The Directive 2008/98/EC lays down an obligation for Member States to take measures to encourage reuse as part of their waste prevention programmes, and to monitor and assess the implementation of their measures on reuse by measuring reuse in accordance with a common methodology, to be established by the Commission. Directive 2008/98/EC also lays down an obligation for Member States to report data on reuse to the Commission every year in a format to be established by the Commission.
From 2023, Member States are required to report data on reuse to the EEA in accordance with implementing decision (EU) 2021/19. The first reference year is 2021. The EEA's Reportnet-3 digital infrastructure for data collection is used for the reporting. In accordance with implementing decision (EU) 2021/19, Member States are obliged to report data on reuse and submit a quality check report concerning the implementation of Article 9(4) of Directive 2008/98/EC (following the format laid down in the Annex of the decision).
According to (EU) 2021/19, Member States shall report the qualitative data (Annex A) every following year, and quantitative data (Annex B) at least every three years.
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Identification info
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Date (Creation)
- 2024-02-29
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Date (Publication)
- 2024-02-29
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Edition
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01.00
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Citation identifier
- eea_t_reuse-flows_p_2024_v01_r00
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Status
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Superseded
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contactEuropean Environment Agency
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Topic category
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Environment
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Temporal extent
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Time period
- 2021-01-01 2021-12-31
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Maintenance and update frequency
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Annually
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Maintenance and update frequency
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Irregular
- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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EU27 (from 2020)
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Norway
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- EEA Management Plan
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2024 4.2.1
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Other constraints
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
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Language
- English
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Additional Information
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During the discussions and development of the decision a main concern from the Member States was the expected administrative burden to collect and report data on reuse. In order to monitor reuse and to gain a better understanding of the reuse sector, it was decided that the reporting should include a combination of qualitative and quantitative data. In the annexes, the format for reporting includes a section on quality of the data. Member States are required to identify and describe which public authorities that are responsible for the adoption and implementation of measures on reuse, which products these measures address, which reuse operators are addressed by the measures and which actions Member States take to assess reuse through indictors and targets. Additionally, Member States are obliged to report on any measures they have implemented to support reuse operators, e.g., economic instruments, educational campaigns. By combining quantitative and qualitative aspects, the reported data on reuse will give a good understanding of the reuse sector and the impacts of the measures that the Member States have taken on waste prevention.
Distribution Information
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Statement
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Units: Amounts of reuse (tonnes/per year).
Geographic coverage: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway.
Notes:
a) This product includes data reported by Norway on a voluntary basis.
b) Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Slovenia, Romania didn’t report by the cutoff date of the dataset presented.
Quantitative reuse data was produced by measuring amounts generated by reuse operators or households using methods defined in the decision or other equivalent methods. The methods defined in the decision are:
a) direct measurement of reuse by using a measuring device to determine the mass of reused products;
b) mass balance calculation of reuse on the basis of the mass of inputs and outputs of products in reuse operations;
c) questionnaires and interviews of reuse operators or households;
d) diaries of individuals keeping a record or log of information on reuse on a regular basis.
Annex C of the reporting provides details on the approaches employed by each reporting country. Reporting countries were free to select the approach that seemed most suitable for their purposes and to use a combination of approaches if necessary. Therefore, the dataset comprises data gathered using different approaches, and so it is critical that no inter-country comparisons are made using this dataset.
It is also noted that this first cycle of reporting represents a novel exercise in collecting and calculating reuse amounts and so the relative accuracy and robustness of the approaches is not yet clear. As the reporting process matures, it is expected that this data will strengthen but for now caution is advised in drawing insights from the dataset.
Finally, users should note that reported zero amounts may represent a declaration that no reuse activity occurred, or otherwise may represent a declaration that these data were unavailable for reporting. This issue will be clarified for future reporting cycles, but for now caution is needed in interpreting zero entries within the dataset.
According to (EU) 2021/19, Member States shall report the qualitative data (Annex A) every following year, and quantitative data (Annex B) at least every three years.
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Hierarchy level
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Dataset
Metadata
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Metadata identifier
- 50b2430b-8218-471c-86ea-65236a870a28
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Language
- English
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Character encoding
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UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
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Resource type
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Non geographic dataset
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Name
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Tabular dataset
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Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/50b2430b-8218-471c-86ea-65236a870a28
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Date info (Creation)
- 2024-02-22T08:41:54.598Z
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Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:50:07.755299Z
Metadata standard
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Title
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ISO 19115/19139
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Edition
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1.0
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