1 Revision of SEEA 2003 State of Play – Environmental Goods and Services Sector Presentation for the London Group meeting 29 September – 3 October 2008,

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Revision of SEEA 2003

State of Play – Environmental Goods and Services Sector

Presentation for the London Group meeting29 September – 3 October 2008, Brussels

Maja Cederlund, Nancy Steinbach, Viveka Palm - SCBTF on EGSS (Ute Roewer) - Eurostat

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Headlines

Background Starting point Environmental activities Environmental products and technologies Identification of the population of environmental goods

and services sector Decisions with respect to limitations The standard tables Contents of the handbook Question to the LG

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Background Working Group on “Environmental Expenditure Statistics” at

Eurostat agreed on collection of data for the Environmental Goods and Service Sector (EGSS) in May 2005

Eurostat decided to develop standard tables and a

methodological handbook

Task Force at Eurostat (set up 2006) supports the work

In 2009 the final draft of the standard tables and the handbook will be presented to the WG for approval

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Starting point

The environmental goods and services industry - manual for data collection and analysis, OECD/Eurostat 1999, defines

Environmental goods and services industry consists of activities which produce goods and services to measure, prevent, limit, minimise or correct environmental damage to water, air and soil, as well as problems related to water, noise and eco-systems. This includes cleaner technologies, products and services that reduce environmental risk and minimise pollution and resource use.

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Environmental activities

Environmental protection activities according to the Classification of Environmental

Protection Activities (CEPA)

Resources management activitiesno official classification availablebut under development, based on the classification of the NSI of Italy for the Natural Resource Use and Management Expenditure Account

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Environmental products and technology

End-of-pipe products (goods and services) and technologies

Cleaner/resource efficient products (goods and services)are less pollutant and less resource intensive at the time of their production, consumption, scrapping than the average good/service sold on the national market satisfying the same needs.

Cleaner/resource efficient technologyis a technical process, method or knowledge which decreases material inputs, reduces energy consumption, minimises waste disposal problems, recovers valuable by-products.

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The population of the EGSS

The Problem: environmental activities are regrouped from many different economic sectors

Two options Creating a database of producers of environmental

goods and services in order to ensure good coverage of the EGSS sector

Compiling a list of selected goods, services and technologies which have an environmental purpose and relating them to their producers

8Source : Handbook EGSS, ch. 3

Database of EGSS population, containing NACE code of the activities of the establishments, product

code and the identification number used in the registers

Sources of identification:

NACE

Business AssociationsInternet pages

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Business Register

Sources of identification:

NACE

Activity

Business AssociationsInternet pages

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Definition of EGSS

Technologies, goods and services

Products classifications

Lists of producers

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Decisions with respect to limitations

Scope of activities of EGSS is related to the purpose of the production

Environmental activities are linked either to EP or to RM

Activities should be classified under the main environmental domain according to main purpose and function

Excluded from the EGSS are natural hazards/natural risk management and natural resource exploitation

The scope of goods and services is restricted to those which primarily are produced to have a favourable impact on environment

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Decisions with respect to limitations (2)

Main producer principle

- Environmental sector covers entities which produce environmental goods, but not their components. The distribution of environmental goods (selling) is excluded.

- Environmental sector provides (produces) environmental services, but the subsequent provision, distribution or use is excluded.

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The standard tables

Which information is of interest for users of the statistics collected through standard tables?

Which information can be expected to be provided by the National Statistical Offices?

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The standard tables (2)

Variables

Turnover Value added Employment Export

Industries, following a NACE oriented breakdown General Government, broken down to central, regional,

local government, following the Environmental Protection Expenditure Account

Actors (producers)

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The standard tables (3)

Kind of environmental activities Environmental protection activities (CEPA) Resource management activities (CReMA)

Which industries produce cleaner/resource efficient technologies

Share of principal, secondary, ancillary, market, non-market production

Methodology used to gather and compile data

Additional interesting to know

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Contents of the handbook

Definitions Classifications of activities by environmental domains Boundary of the chain of production of goods and

services Guidance and sources on how to identify the population Methods on how to gather statistics for turnover, value

added, employment, exports Support on filling in the standard tables Possibilities to present and analyse the data

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Question

Should the area of EGSS be included in the New SEEA as an international standard based on the work of the TF on EGSS at Eurostat?

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Thank you for your attention!