The European Waste Classification is a mainly substance-oriented classification of waste for statistical purposes, which distinguishes hazardous and non-hazardous waste. It is aggregated into 51 mainly substance orientated waste categories that provides criteria for the assessment and classification of hazardous waste and defines different types of waste by a six-digit code for the waste and the respective two-digit and four-digit chapter headings. The two digit chapter headings are partly oriented towards the origin of the waste. The EWC stat is orientated purely to material disaggregation into parts of this material.
Legal basis: 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), OJ L 253, 28.9.2010, p. 2 -41.
EWC-Stat Rev. 4 is maintained by Eurostat and published by the Publications Office of the European Union on the EU Vocabularies website.
