The purpose of the present Ordinance is to: 1) introduce a general waste registration system in the whole territory of Austra; 2) improve the planning of waste management and disposal in general; 3) support competent authorities in their controlling and monitoring activities; 4) reduce administrative work by introducing an electronic data bank; 5) survey of data on waste. The text – consisting of 12 articles – deals, inter alia, with the following matters: objectives, sphere of application, recording of data, electronic data, issuing of annual waste balance, provisional provisions, relationship to other Ordinances, enforcement of EU-directives and entry into force.