Environmental Accounts in
EUROSTAT
London Group Meeting-New York
19-21 June 2006
Rainer Muthmann, Head of Unit E3
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European Strategy for
Environmental Accounting
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The main recommendation of the ESEA Task
Force, approved in 2003 by the Statistical
Programme Commitee (SPC) is the regular
production of the key environmental accounts
modules :
- air emission accounts
- economy-wide material flows accounts
- environmental protection expenditure
- environment industry accounts
- environmental taxes
- forest-timber accounts
- sub-soil asset accounts (oil and gas)
- water flow accounts
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EU Thematic Strategy on
natural resources
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Long term objective (2030) to de-couple
economic growth from environmental
degradation
Examines the whole life cycle, from natural
resources to products and finally to waste
Points towards solutions such as cleaner
technologies or environmentally less
problematic substitutes
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EU Memorandum of understanding
(EEA, JRC, DG ENV, Eurostat)
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Eurostat will manage three Data Centres: Natural
Resources, Integrated Product Policy (IPP) and
Waste.
Each Data Centre shall act as « information hub »,
being the core reference point for specific questions
related to statistical information, managing data with
quality control and developing methodologies to
provide indicators on the environmental impacts of
resources, products and waste
Each Data Centre will be a tool for the
implementation of the EU Strategy on the
sustainable use of natural resources
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WORK ON THE DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL
ACCOUNTS MODULES
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AIR EMISSIONS :
Data available to public on Eurostat web site
2 Statistics In Focus on economic activities
and their pressure on the environment
2006 data collection
ECONOMY-WIDE MATERIAL FLOWS:
Time series from 1970 at EU 15 level
New standard tables to collect data at EU 25
level with a high disaggregation of materials
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WORK ON THE DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL
ACCOUNTS MODULES
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION EXPENDITURE
Published : handbook on industry data collection
Task Force to elaborate a new handbook on public
sector and specialized producers data collection.
Two Statistics In Focus have been published
ENVIRONMENTAL INDUSTRY
Task Force to elaborate standard tables and
compilation guide
ENVIRONMENTAL TAXES
Collection of environmental taxes broken down by
industry, to be published at the end of the year
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WORK ON THE DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL
ACCOUNTS MODULES
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FOREST ACCOUNTS
Integration of economic accounts for forestry
into environmental accounts for forests
WATER FLOW ACCOUNTS
Data will be collected on the basis of
standard tables agreed upon at UN level
NAMEA ENERGY
Work will be initiated on this module
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