Environmental Protection Expenditure Accounts — Compilation

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MB Guide

165
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ID Eurostat Statistical Office of the European Communities

2002
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Table of Contents

Preface .7

1. Introduction .9

1.1 Purpose and scope of the guide .9

1.2 Uses of the guide9

1.3 Organisation of the guide.10

1.4 A worked example .10

2. A quick overview .11

2.1 Indicators derivable from the data structure and accounts and other uses11

2.2 Planning the work 11

2.3 Finding data sources12

2.4 Arranging data into accounts12

2.5 Establishing a system 13

3. The EPEA framework .15

3.1 Some key features of the EPEA framework .15

3.1.1 Objectives and main definitions 15

3.1.2 An integrated supply-use framework .16

3.1.3 The set of EPEA tables.18

3.1.4 Some key concepts of the EPEA framework .19

3.2 Uses of results .21

3.3 The classification of environmental protection activities and expenditure (CEPA 2000) .22

3.3.1 Presentation of the CEPA 2000.22

3.3.2 Main links to other classifications 24

3.4 Developments since the publication of the 1994 SERIEE manual 25

3.4.1 General presentation.25

3.4.2 Relative importance of domains and elements of national expenditure .25

4. Main data sources for the EPEA 27

4.1 How to start 27

4.1.1 Organisation of environmental protection 27

4.1.2 Types of data sources .29

4.1.3 Cross-categorisation of data sources and environmental domains.31

4.2 Data derivable from national accounts .32

4.3 Production statistics.35

4.3.1 Specialised producers.35

4.3.2 Production statistics – other industries 38

4.3.3 Other data sources on production40

4.3.4 Summary on production statistics41

4.4 Government43

4.4.1 Accounts of government, government finance statistics and budget analyses .45

4.4.2 National accounts – COFOG.53

4.4.3 Annual reports and accounts of government agencies.54

4.4.4 Specific surveys of local government or local public utilities55

4.4.5 Summary for general government.55

4.5 Data on environmental protection expenditure by industries.56

4.5.1 Surveys of environmental protection expenditure56

4.5.2 Other sources on industry expenditure 61

4.6 Other useful data sources 61

4.6.1 Household surveys61

4.6.2 Annual reports of non-profit institutions .62

4.6.3 Physical data 63

4.6.4 Price data .64

4.6.5 Using data from construction statistics 65

4.6.6 Environment industry surveys .66

5. Compilation of EPEA tables.67

5.1 The domestic supply of environmental services (Table B)67

5.1.1 The production table .67

5.1.2 Output as given by existing sources69

5.1.3 Output calculated via cost of production69

5.1.4 Environmental protection capital stock accounts .70

5.1.5 Other ways for calculating output 74

5.1.6 Identification of non-environmental output and current EP resources 75

5.1.7 Supplementary information .75

5.2 The use of environmental services (upper part of Table A) 79

5.2.1 Objectives of Table A79

5.2.2 From output to uses: the supply-use table (Table B1)80

5.2.3 Allocation of environmental services to user categories 83

5.3 The recording of capital formation for EP activities in Table A .86

5.4 The use of connected and adapted products 86

5.4.1 Definitions86

5.4.2 Scope of connected and adapted products87

5.4.3 Assessment and evaluation.88

5.4.4 Filling in the Table A for connected and adapted products 91

5.5 Specific transfers .92

5.5.1 Purpose of including specific transfers in environmental expenditure 92

5.5.2 Data sources used and treatment94

5.5.3 Specific transfers in Table A .95

5.6 National expenditure aggregate .96

5.7 Financing table (Table C).97

5.7.1 Presentation of the financing table 97

5.7.2 Data sources and links to previous tables100

5.8 Environmental taxes 101

5.8.1 Definition and classification.101

5.8.2 Main data sources.101

5.8.3 Presentation of aggregate results on environmental taxes.102

5.9 Net cost account (Table C1).104

5.9.1 Objective of the table and definition of net costs .104

5.9.2 Data sources.105

6. The EPEA statistical process.107

6.1 Overview 107

6.2 Organising data flows 107

6.3 Constitution and maintenance of databases.108

6.4 Estimation processes .109

6.5 Design of linked worksheets.110

6.5.1 Linking EPEA worksheets with databases .110

6.5.2 Linking EPEA worksheets together110

6.6 Analysis and verification of results .111

6.7 Assessing the accuracy of estimates111

6.8 Revisions112

7. Publication of EPEA results.115

7.1 Introduction.115

7.2 Consultation with users 115

7.3 Periodicity and timeliness 115

7.4 Presentation of key aggregates and indicators .116

7.5 Presentation of detailed and supplementary tables 118

7.6 Links to physical data.119

7.7 Time series.120

7.8 Constant price estimates120

7.9 Dissemination media .121

8. Improving the accounts .123

8.1 Integration into the statistical system123

8.2 Making data flows regular 124

8.3 Adjusting primary statistics.125

8.4 Adapting classifications and derivation formats126

8.5 Ensuring stability of derivation: a national compilation guide126

Annex 1 Classification of Environmental Protection Activities and expenditure (CEPA 2000).127

Annex 2 Example of an industry expenditure questionnaire: Germany.139

Annex 3 Links to the OECD/Eurostat ‘Environment industry’ manual .151

Annex 4 The complete EPEA tables of the Worked Example157

Annex 5 Useful categories in NACE Rev. 1.1 and in functional classifications.163

Bibliography 167