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Environmental Goods and Services Sector (EGSS)
Data Collection Handbook and Standard Tables
Final Draft
Working Group on Environmental Expenditure StatisticsJoint Eurostat / EFTA group
Meeting of 25 Mars 2009BECH Building – Room Ampere
Luxembourg
The challenge
Collecting data on the “environmental” sector:
Strong policy interests to implement future measures directed towards the environmental sector.Good quality, comparable, coherent data…limiting the burden on national statistical offices to the minimum.
Structure of the presentation
1. Overview of the Handbook
2. The EGSS: definition and classification
3. Identification of the EGSS population
4. Data collection
5. The Standard Tables
6. Presentation and interpretation of results
7. Final remarks
Overview of the Handbook
Sources:• Environmental Industry OECD/Eurostat
Manual (1999)• SERIEE, SEEA• Countries’ experiences• Task Force: Austria, Sweden, France,
Spain, Italy, Hungary, United Kingdom, Germany, Finland, The Netherlands, Norway.
Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
Overview of the Handbook
Structure and organisation of the Handbook:• Theoretical framework• Practical information:
• Identification of the population• Gathering of the relevant data
• Examples and recommendations
Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
The EGSSS
Three main issues to be discussed before any collection of data on the environmental sector:
1.definition
2.delimitation
3.classification
Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
The EGSS: definition
The Environmental industry OECD/Eurostat Manual definition …
… as a starting point.
Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
The EGSS: delimitation (1)
What is included and excluded in the EGSS?– Environmental purpose: technical nature of
the activity and producer’s intention– Not included in the sector
• Natural hazards and risk management• Extraction, exploitation and mobilisation of non-
renewable resources
Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
The EGSS: delimitation (2)
What kind of environmental technologies, goods and services?– Environmental specific services– Connected products– Adapted goods– End-of-pipe technologies– Integrated technologies
Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
The EGSS: delimitation (3)
What kind of producers?– General Government– Corporations
• Market/non market activities• Principal/secondary/ancillary activitiesOverview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
The EGSS: classification
Environmental purpose– Environmental Protection
• CEPA 2000
– Resource Management• CReMA 2008Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
Identification of the population
Identification of the population– Identification of environmental activities– Identification of environmental technologies,
goods and services.Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
Identification of the population in 4 steps
Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
Practical approaches and methods for classification of the EGSS
Recommendations for:– Climate change prevention activities– Recycling activities– Waste incineration activities– Forest certification activities– Protection of biodiversity and management of
wild flora and fauna
Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
Data Collection
Supply side approach Main Sources for data compilation:
– Existing statistics– Surveys
Demand side approach as a secondary / complementary source, for certain activities (e.g. EP environmental specific services, ancillary EP activities)
Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
The Standard Tables
The Standard Tables are the main tool to report EGSS statistics to Eurostat
They have been organised to be as simple and user-friendly as possible
They allow for the collection of very detailed data
They offer the possibility of being filled in at different levels of detail
Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
The Standard Tables
Introductory sheets Examples sheet Data sheets:
– Different levels of breakdown by NACE– Breakdown by type of output– Breakdown by environmental / resource
domain – Green shadowed cells
Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
The Standard Tables
Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
Presentation and interpretation of results
By economic sector: Government / Corporations– NACE sectors / Government levels
By environmental domain: CEPA / CReMA By economic variable: VA / turnover /
employment / exports By environmental output: environmental
service / connected goods / adapted goods / end-of-pipe technologies / integrated technologies
Time series
Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
Presentation and interpretation of results: adapted goods
CAUTION in presenting data, in particular for adapted goods.
Only a part “truly” environmental (cfr. SERIEE and the “environmental share”)
Harmonization of the goods to be collected.
Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
Final remarks and conclusions
Strong points Limits Further developments
Overview
The EGSS
The population
Data collection
Standard Tables
Results
Final remarks
For further details, comments and questions:
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Thank you for your attention
Annexes
1. Details on goods/services/technologies, general government / corporations, ancillary activities
2. Details on the CEPA and CReMA classifications and examples
3. Correspondence tables NACE 1.1 / NACE 24. Identifying the population: examples from countries5. Identifying integrated technologies and adapted goods:
examples6. The WTO list of env. goods7. The German list of env. goods and services8. Classification of sustainable activities9. The demand side approach10. Details on estimating variables using surveys11. The double counting problem12. Data collection: example from countries