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preparation for reuse), in keeping with the criteria in in 2021), although it did not reach the annual target of
Directive 2008/98/EC on waste. Selective collection 1,000 t. This may be because some of the voluntary
is well-established today in this country which means establishments did not continue with the service, and the
that the rate of recycling was 49.3% in 2022, two amounts collected in establishments such as mandated
points higher than in the previous year, achieving the stores or schools fell in relation to previous years.
target set for 2020 of 50% in weight of waste destined
for preparation for reuse and recycling. As for energy recovery, household waste and waste
treated as municipal waste are burnt at the Waste
In fact, in 2022, a total of 50,716 t of municipal waste Treatment Centre (CTR), so that part of the energy
was managed (compared with 46,409 t in 2021), of can be recovered through combustion as electricity.
which 17,736 t were recycled and 32,217 t were Moreover, since 2020, part has been recovered as
recovered as energy, the process that minimises the heat, which is used in the new district heating system
volume of waste through combustion. The rest went in Andorra la Vella. In 2022, 40,529 t of Andorran
for preparation for reuse or disposal. waste were received at the plant, a higher figure than
the 38,172 t in 2021. To this waste must be added the
As for recycling, there was an increase in 2022 in 9,329 t of pre-treated solid municipal waste from
the total recycled amounts of glass (+17.1%), light Cerdanya (Spain), under the Government authorisation
packaging (+10.2%), paper and cardboard (+16.2%) and to import a maximum of 10,000 t per year, representing
organic matter (+8.8%), mainly related to the services 18.7% of the total waste used to recover energy by
sector (hotels, commerce), which had recovered from the CTR. The energy recovered from all the waste
the effects of the pandemic and returned to levels generated 18,760 MWh of electricity, which was
similar to 2019. As for the selective collection of organic injected into the FEDA electricity network, and
matter by major producers, the amount in 2022 was 11,441 MWh of thermal power, which was injected
higher than in the previous year (836 t in 2022 and 768 into the FEDA-Ecoterm district heating network.
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Source: Government of Andorra.

community services. On the other hand, it basically decreased in the branches of financial activities
and households employing domestic staff, and practically stagnated in public administration.

Note that the shortage of employees may affect growth in the services sector in the future,
especially in the subsector of catering and hotels. As can be seen in the business climate survey,
which incorporated additional questions in the second half relating to the labour market situation,
53.6% of the surveyed businesses had problems filling job vacancies in 2022. By sectors of activity,
the shortage of workers has a very negative impact on construction, in which nine of every ten
companies struggle to find workers, and also in hotels, where eight of every ten are affected by the
lack of qualified staff. In industry and the retail trade, the impact is lower. In the hotel sector, the main
reason indicated is the disparity between jobseekers’ training and the profile sought by businesses,
indicated by almost six of every ten businesses. This year, the pilot scheme of a special immigration
permit quota for the summer season, providing continuity to the winter seasonal workers, enabled
hotel staff requirements to be covered for summer 2022.

In 2022, the average monthly wage of the whole services sector rose 4.7% to €2,294, a moderate
increase when considering the 7.1% increase in the CPI this year. For this reason, wages lost Andorran economy: developments in the main sectors | XII. Services
purchasing power in 2022, for the second
consecutive year. The trend in the average wage The trend in wages is positive but
was positive in all subsectors, but grew most in lower than the CPI increase.
hotels (+11.6%), followed by social activities
and community services, commerce, transport
and storage, the financial sector and real estate activities (in all cases, by more than 6%). In contrast,
increases were more contained in public administration, education and health activities.