Commission Regulation (EU) No 849/2010 of 27 September 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste statistics Text with EEA relevance

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2002 on waste statistics (1), and in particular Article 6(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) The evaluation of the first two data deliveries in 2006 and 2008 revealed the need for a review of certain conceptual shortcomings of the Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002.

(2) The Commission has informed the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation of the Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 (2) and has proposed a number of changes.

(3) Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(4) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee, established by Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics (3),

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annexes I, II and III to Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 are replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 27 September 2010.

For the Commission The President José Manuel BARROSO

(1) OJ L 332, 9.12.2002, p. 1.

(2) COM(2008) 355 final.

(3) OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164.