Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 4th August, 2023.

I, LEO VARADKAR, T.D, Taoiseach, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 25 (1) of the Statistics Act 1993 (No. 21 of 1993) and, other than in relation to paragraph 1(e)(i) and paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the following order, for the purpose of giving full effect to Regulation (EC) No. 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2002¹ , as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 574/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 February 2004² , Commission Regulation (EC) No. 783/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 May 2005³ , Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006⁴ , Regulation (EC) No. 221/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009⁵ and Commission Regulation (EU) No. 849/2010 of 27 September 2010⁶ , hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Statistics (Waste Generation and Treatment Survey) Order 2023.

2. (1) In this Order -

“Regulation” means Regulation (EC) No. 2150/2002¹ of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2002¹ , as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 574/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 February 2004² , Commission Regulation (EC) No. 783/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 May 2005³ , Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006⁴ , Regulation (EC) No. 221/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009⁵ and Commission Regulation (EU) No. 849/2010 of 27 September 2010⁶ ;

“Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006” means Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006⁴ , as amended by Regulation (EC) No. 295/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2008⁷ and Regulation (EU) 2019/1243 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019⁸ ;

“survey” means the Waste Generation and Treatment Survey that is conducted by the Central Statistics Office for the purpose of obtaining information specified in the Schedule, including for the purposes of compliance with the Regulation;

“waste code”, in relation to a particular type of waste, means the waste code assigned to that type of waste in the list of waste set out in the Annex to Commission Decision 2000/532/EC of 3 May 2000⁹ , as amended by Commission Decision 2001/118/EC of 16 January 2001¹⁰ , Commission Decision 2001/119/EC of 22 January 2001¹¹ , Council Decision 2001/573/EC of 23 July 2001¹² and Commission Decision 2014/955/EU of 18 December 2014¹³ .

(2) A word or expression that is used in this Order and also used in the Regulation has the same meaning in this Order as in the Regulation, except where the context otherwise requires.

3. This Order applies to an undertaking that is classified for statistical purposes under any section of NACE Rev. 2 set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006.⁴

4. A requirement on undertakings to which this Order applies to provide, once only and for the purposes of the survey, information the general nature of which is specified in the Schedule, in relation to the year 2022, is hereby prescribed.

SCHEDULE

Article 4

1. Information regarding the following, as it relates to each type of waste generated by the undertaking concerned:

(a) waste code of the waste;

(b) description of the waste;

(c) quantity of the waste;

(d) location where the waste was treated;

(e) where the waste was treated in the State on premises of the undertaking concerned -

(i) the method of treatment of the waste where the method involved recycling, or

(ii) the method of treatment of the waste where the method did not involve recycling.

2. The eircode of the registered office, principal office or place of business of the undertaking concerned.

3. Information on the time taken by the undertaking to complete the questionnaire, form or other record prepared by the Director General for the collection of the information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

31 July, 2023.

LEO VARADKAR,

Taoiseach.

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