Date (Creation)

2024-02-29

Date (Publication)

2024-02-29

Edition

01.00

Citation identifier

eea_t_reuse-flows_p_2024_v01_r00

Code

10.2909/50b2430b-8218-471c-86ea-65236a870a28

Status

Superseded

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Website	Role
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu	http://www.eea.europa.eu	Point of contact
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu		Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency

Annually

Maintenance and update frequency

Irregular

Keywords

Keywords

GEMET

• resources
• waste

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

• EU27 (from 2020)

• Norway

Reporting obligations

• Reporting on reuse

EEA Management Plan

• 2024 4.2.1

EEA topics

• Waste and recycling
• Circular economy
• Resource use and materials

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged ( http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Language of dataset

English

Topic category

• Environment

Begin date

2021-01-01

End date

2021-12-31

Additional Information

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 format

• Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx) ( )

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
EEA:FOLDERPATH	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_t_reuse-flows_p_2024_v01_r00/
WWW:URL	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/50b2430b-8218-471c-86ea-65236a870a28	Direct download
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/50b2430b-8218-471c-86ea-65236a870a28/attachments/Reuse%20metadata%20annex%20Version%201.pdf	Information on the database structure and use

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
DOI	https://doi.org/10.2909/50b2430b-8218-471c-86ea-65236a870a28

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

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.

Metadata

File identifier

50b2430b-8218-471c-86ea-65236a870a28 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Tabular dataset

Hierarchy level name

Tabular dataset

Date stamp

2024-03-07T15:15:18.369124Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Website	Role
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu		Point of contact