Environmental goods and services sectorEGSS 环境商品和服务部门EGS.pptxVIP

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 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 2 W. J. Radermacher 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 Eurostats work see: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/environmental_accounts/introduction W. J. Radermacher 3 European environmental accounts 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… 4 W. J. Radermacher 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 5 W. J. Radermacher Environmental tax revenue in the EU (TSC = total revenue from taxes and social contributions) http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.