9.12.2002 Official Journal of the European Communities L 3321 | (Acts whose publication is obligatory) REGULATION (EC) No 2150/2002 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 25 November 2002 on waste statistics (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE (3)  Community waste policy has led to the establishment of EUROPEAN UNION, a set of principles to be followed by waste-producing units and waste management. This requires the monitoring of waste at different points of the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European waste-stream generation,  collection, recovery and Community, and in particular Article 285 thereof, disposal. Having regard to the proposals from the Commission (%), (4)  Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 of 17 February 1997 on Community statistics (*). Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3), (5)  To guarantee comparable results, waste statistics should be produced in accordance with the specified breakdown, in an appropriate form and within a fixed Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article period of time from the end of the reference year. 251 of the Treaty (%), (6)  Since the objective of the proposed measure, namely to Whereas: establish a framework for the production of Community statistics on the generation, recovery and disposal of waste, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, by reason of the need to define terms of description of waste and waste management so as to ensure the comparability of the statistics supplied by the Member States, and can therefore be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve the objective of the proposed measure. (1)  Regular Community statistics on the production and management of waste from businesses and private households are required by the Community for monitoring the implementation of waste policy. This creates the basis for monitoring compliance with the principles of maximisation of recovery and safe disposal. Statistical instruments are still required, however, for assessing compliance with the principle of waste prevention and to establish a link between waste generation data and global, national and regional inventories of resource use. (7)  Member States may need a transitional period for the establishment of their statistics on waste for all or some of the economic activities A, B and G to Q of NACE REV 1 as established by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 of 9 October 1990 on the statistical - classification of economic activities in the European () O] C 87, 29.3.1999, p. 22, O] C 180 E, 26.6.2001, p. 202 and Community (°) for which their national statistical amended proposal of 10 December 2001 (not yet published in the system requires major adaptations. Official Journal). () 0] € 329, 17.11.1999, p. 17. (2)  The terms for the description of waste and waste management need to be defined in order to ensure the comparability of results in waste statistics. (®) Opinion of the European Parliament of 4 September 2001 (O] C () OJ L 52, 22.2.1997, p. 1 constitutes the reference framework for 72 E, 21.3.2002, p. 32), Council Common Position of 15 April the provisions of this Regulation. 2002 (O] C 145 E, 18.6.2002, p. 85) and Decision of the () O] L 293, 24.10.1990, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by European Parliament of 4 July 2002 (not yet published in the Commission Regulation (EC) No 29/2002 (O] L 6, 10.1.2002, Official Journal), Decision of the Council of 14 November 2002. p- 3).