Revision of SEEA 2003 State of Play

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Revision of SEEA 2003State of Play
Environmental Goods and Services
SectorPresentation for the London Group
meeting29 September 3 October 2008,
BrusselsMaja 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 activities
• no official classification available
• but 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

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Source Handbook EGSS, ch. 3
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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!