The aim of the project is to build and implement a single environmental monitoring and information system in waste management as a key supporting tool for the implementation of the Waste Management Programme of the Slovak Republic (WMP) 2016-2020, adopted by Resolution No 562/2015, which is the most important programming document in this area fully respecting the relevant commitments of the Slovak Republic. Physical implementation of the project will take place in Bratislava. Due to the fact that the reporters and users of the system are all obliged persons by law as well as all municipalities, the use of the project outputs will be focused on the whole territory of the Slovak Republic, where the information system will be located in the government cloud. The basic purpose of POH SR is to minimise the negative effects of the generation and management of waste on human health and the environment. This means, in particular, reducing the relatively high level of environmentally unsuitable disposal practices (notably landfilling). For the period 2016-2020, the strategic objective of waste management of the Slovak Republic remains the fundamental diversion of waste from landfilling and the functional creation of incentives aimed at promoting environmentally friendly disposal methods such as recycling. In order to achieve this strategic objective, the Programme proposes a number of measures, the key of which is the establishment of mechanisms to promote environmentally sound disposal methods, based in particular on the monitoring of waste producers and on a system for transferring the costs of environmentally friendly waste disposal to these producers. Although it is a simple and effective principle that will quickly lead to an increase in environmentally friendly waste disposal, it is very difficult to implement in practice. With current capacities and information sources, it is almost impossible for MEIs to monitor accurately the life cycle of each waste and to put in place an effective system of positive and negative incentives. In order to implement the polluter pays principle effectively, it is necessary to build a single monitoring and information system. Slovakia produced 9.5 million tonnes of waste between 2010 and 2013 with a tendency to increase. In particular, the way waste is disposed is crucial for monitoring environmental impacts. The biggest environmental burden is landfilling, which exceeds 50 % with a tendency to increase. Energy recovery (R1) accounts for 3 % of the total waste management, which is about 300 thousand tonnes per year. Material recovery of waste (R2-R11) has increased year-on-year, yet it does not show expected values and the amount of recycled waste has decreased by up to 0.5 million tonnes compared to previous years. In 2013, only 30 % of the waste was materially recovered. Other waste recovery (R12,R13) accounts for 10 % of total management. Other waste disposal methods (D2-D9, D11-D15) account for five percent of the total waste management and other waste management activities (L,SP) accounted for a 2 % share of total waste management in 2013. Thus, the waste management situation is not favourable when the most environmentally burdensome method of disposal prevails. However, in order to improve this situation, the monitoring of waste management needs to be significantly refined in order to be able to effectively motivate the various actors to behave in an environmentally sound manner and to monitor the impact of the various measures as a whole. However, the current monitoring method does not fit as it is based on a lengthy, imprecise and laborious way of collecting and evaluating data, which has not changed for a relatively long time. The analysis of the generation and management of waste has been built in Slovakia since 1995 on the national regional waste information system (RISO). Riso records all reports from waste producers who, using the ‘Waste generation and management declaration’ form, report the established data from the register to the competent district authority on an annual basis. The frequency of reports is relatively small (quarterly), which in itself is no longer sufficient for a truly effective way of monitoring. The data from the reports are then manually entered by the district offices into the RISO information system. Statistics on municipal waste are provided by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, where the database base as defined in the definition of municipal waste is provided exclusively by municipalities. However, the above-mentioned waste collection and evaluation system is based on the premise of correct and accurate transmission of data by waste producers. It is only to a limited extent that the system allows effective control of the validity of the data provided.