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Walter J. Radermacher Chief Statistician of the EU

UNSC 2013 – lunch time seminar 26 February 2013 - Implementation of the SEEA Central Framework Environmental accounts -implementation in the European Union. Walter J. Radermacher Chief Statistician of the EU. Overview. A bit of history

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Walter J. Radermacher Chief Statistician of the EU

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  1. UNSC 2013 – lunch time seminar 26 February 2013 - Implementation of the SEEA Central FrameworkEnvironmental accounts -implementation in the European Union Walter J. Radermacher Chief Statistician of the EU

  2. Overview • A bit of history • EU environmental accounts - current production • Legal framework • Regulation 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts • New legislation in preparation • Implementation of SEEA 2012 • Development work and next steps

  3. European environmental accounts • Began methodological development in the 90s • Work in several areas, including forestry accounts • New unit created at Eurostat in 2010 • Major contribution to SEEA 2012 development • Voluntary data collection in several areas • First EU Regulation adopted in 2011 covering air emissions, material flows and environmental taxes • Extension of legal framework well advanced to include also energy, environmental protection expenditure and the environmental goods and services sector • For more detail on Eurostat's work see: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/environmental_accounts/introduction

  4. EU environmental accounts – regular production (voluntary so far) Air emissions in a breakdown by economic activities Economy-wide material flow accounts Environmental taxes – revenues as well as taxes paid in a breakdown by economic activities Environmental protection expenditure from joint OECD/Eurostat questionnaire Environmental goods and services sector Environmental accounts need good quality input from many other areas of EU statistics – SUTs and COFOG data from national accounts, energy, transport, external trade, business, agriculture statistics…

  5. Example results: IO analysis based on air emissions accounts http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-SF-11-022/EN/KS-SF-11-022-EN.PDF

  6. Environmental tax revenue in the EU (TSC = total revenuefrom taxes and social contributions) http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-SF-12-053/EN/KS-SF-12-053-EN.PDF

  7. Resource productivity

  8. EU environmental accounts – legal framework Regulation 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts • Is an EU law directly applicable to Member States • Adopted on 6 July 2011, first obligatory data delivery by Member States in September 2013 • Includes 3 modules: • Air emissions accounts (14 pollutants x 64 ISIC categories + households + bridge table to IPCC totals) • Environmental taxes (4 types x taxpayers: 64 ISIC categories + households + non-residents) • Material flow accounts (economy-wide, no industry breakdown but detailed material categories)

  9. Newlegislation (2nd batch) Extending Regulation 691/2011 with a second batch of modules is now under preparation Environmental protection expenditure Environmental goods and services sector Physical energy flow accounts (by industries) Legal process to take about 2 years Development work for 3rd batch under way

  10. Implementation of SEEA 2012 • EU advanced in several areas, especially chapters 3 and 4 of SEEA 2012 (physical flows accounts and environmental activity accounts) • Eurostat conceptual and compilation handbooks exist for several areas – reviews will determine whether they need to be updated. • Will follow the flexible and modular approach of SEEA implementation • Work on asset accounts (sub-soil assets, forests, land) has been a focus several years ago – importance for countries varies a lot • Eurostat not working on alterative ('adjusted') national accounts aggregates

  11. Development work • Work areas under development include e.g. • Forest accounts • Environmental subsidies and similar transfers • Resource management expenditure • Water accounts • Input-output analysis, environmental employment in the EU • Strategy for developing new work areas currently being reviewed (European Strategy for Environmental Accounting – ESEA – 2003 – 2008 - 2013). • Report to European Parliament and Council end 2013 • SEEA experimental ecosystem accounting: • Main actor in Europe is European Environment Agency • Work to compile accounts using existing data - satellite images complemented with statistics e.g. agriculture and forestry statistics

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