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Environmental Protection Expenditure in industry – The Swedish approach. Nancy Steinbach Third International Conference on Establishment Surveys: Survey Methods for Businesses, Farms, and Institutions (ICES-III) Montreal, Canada 22 June 2007. Overview . What? Why? How? Who? Potential?.
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Environmental Protection Expenditure in industry – The Swedish approach Nancy Steinbach Third International Conference on Establishment Surveys: Survey Methods for Businesses, Farms, and Institutions (ICES-III) Montreal, Canada 22 June 2007
Overview • What? • Why? • How? • Who? • Potential?
What is an EPE? Environmental protection expenditure= Investments + current expenditure for environmental protection Actions to reduce or minimise pollution that have occurred within the own production process/activity.
Why compile EPE? • evaluating costs of complying with environmental regulations • improves the design and implementation of environmental regulations within the EU • indicating what the society do against environmental problems • analysing to what extent the pollutant pay and how the competitive powers of the industries are effected • Structural Business Statistics, Council Regulation No 58/97
How to compile EPE? Survey based approach • Paper questionnaire, Internet questionnaire • Web-site available: www.mkost.scb.se 2006 preliminary
How – Methodology Population: • NACE 10-14, 15-36, 40-41 (Mining and Quarrying, Manufacturing and Electricity and water supply industries) Sample: • Random sample • More than 50 employees • Co-ordinated samples – Business Register
How – Methodology cont… • Program designed to compute standard error estimates and national totals (CLAN) • Makes estimations for those industries whom are not selected • Makes estimations for them whom did not answer • Enumeration variable: number of employees
Who is using the result? Internationally: • OECD • European Commission: Eurostat, DG Environment, DG Enterprise, European Environment Agency • Researchers, Institutes Nationally: • Enterprises • Researchers • Governmental departments, Environment Protection Agency
Eurostat: Environmental Protection Expenditure in industry in the European Union SIF 9/2005
SCB: Environmental economic profile: pulp and paper industry
Potential of EPE in Sweden… Increase coverage of Sweden’s economic actors: • Public sector, • Specialised producers, • Services; for the compilation of Environmental Protection Expenditure Accounts (EPEA)
..that means: • Complete coverage of Sweden’s economy for environmental protection… • That is in line with environmental accounts… • That is in line with national accounts. • Harmonised approaches enables reliable inter-linkages of the environment and the economy to be evaluated and analysed.
Thank you for your attention nancy.steinbach@scb.se