Christof Delatter Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities vvsg.be

1. Procedures for the formation of tariffsforremoval of household wasteETT 53729 – Kiev, Ukraine25-26.11.2013 Christof Delatter Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities www.vvsg.be Tel. +32 2 211.55.99 E-mail: christof.delatter@vvsg.be

2. This Presentation • Legal requirements • Charging to the public • Different nature of different costs • Management cost of a civic amenity site

3. Legal requirements (1) • European framework directive: obligatory implementation of the ‘polluter pays principle’ • Flemish legislation • Financing of household waste management is done through form of municipal taxation • Municipalities have the obligation to calculate their tariffs, based on the real costs for management of household waste • Central government can ask municipalities details about the calculation • Municipalities have to take into consideration some obligatory minimal and maximum tariffs

4. Legal requirements (2) • Costs that have to be integrated in the calculation: • Purchase, rent, distribution and maintenance of recipients, used for waste collection (containers, rubbish bags,…) • Cost of doorstep collection (trucks, staff,…) • Treatment costs of the collected materials (minus the revenues for some recyclables) • Investment, management and maintenance in the civic amenity sites and other bring points for waste • Efforts to enhance waste prevention • Communication costs • Indirect costs: ICT-support, follow-up of complaints, overhead,… • Minus: subsidies from the central government and compensations received within the frame of producers responsibility

5. Charging to the public • Fixed waste taxation: • Waste management tax per household per year • Fixed fee per collection • Pay as youthrow: more expensivefor non recyclable • Municipality has somefreedom in choosing the division

6. Minimum and maximum tariffs to take into account • Civicamenity sites • Doorstepcollection • Onlyfor P-A-Y-T

7. Different nature of different costs (1) • FIXED costs: are almost completely independent and not linked to the quantities of waste collected or treated, but there is often a link with the number of inhabitants • VARIABLE costs: direct correlation between the quantity of waste produced by the inhabitants and the costs for municipalities

8. Different nature of different costs (2) LOCAL AUTHORITIES HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT THEY CHARGE IN A FIXED WAY AND WHAT IN A VARIABLE WAY (P-A-Y-T)

9. Management cost of civic amenity site (1) • Problem: howcanyoudetermine the management cost of a civicamenity site andallocatethiscostto waste streams? • Analysis donebyInterafval • Detailed screening of 10 representative existing civic amenity sites • Operational parameters of 143 civic amenity sites • Definition of “reference” civic amenity site  REFERENCE civicamenity site: Blueprint of what a CAS minimally needs: infrastructure, staff (2.6 FTE), goods & services (operational costs) NOT included: containers, transport, treatment, communication, PAYT-systems…

10. Management cost of civic amenity site (2)

11. Management cost of civic amenity site (3) • Allocation of costs to the different waste streams based on 4 (combinable) methods • Weight ( € / ton) • Homogeneity (workload per waste stream) • Delivery frequency • Surface taken by each waste stream

12. Management cost of civic amenity site (4) • Effect on policy in Flanders: • Supported by flemish government (OVAM) • 2005: Ministerial Decree concerning financial compensation of municipalities • Not all costs were accepted • Allocation of costs • Infrastructure: proportional to the surface taken • Personnel: proportional to the workload per waste stream • Overhead cost of 10% was being added

13. Management cost of civic amenity site (5) • Financial compensation of municipalities in the frame of producers responsibility • Yearly compensation for all civic amenity sites • Fixed: € / inh / year • Variable: € / ton • Examples (without indexation) • WEEE: 0.2365 € / inh + 27.9 € / ton • Motor oils: 0.0506 € / inh + 98.95 € / ton How to allocate costs for civic amenity sites to different waste streams covered by EPR

14. Web application costs civic amenity site • User-friendly version of cost calculation model • No reference civic amenity site • Management tool • Operating costs of civic amenity site? • Cost of collecting new/more waste streams? • Implementing pay-as-you-throw system? • Output • Annual cost per site and per stream • € / ton / waste stream • € / inhabitant • € / square meter • … How to allocate costs for civic amenity sites to different waste streams covered by EPR

15. How to allocate costs for civic amenity sites to different waste streams covered by EPR