Working Group ”Environmental Accounts” Waste NAMEAs Working Group ”Environmental Accounts” 23 – 24 March 2009 Eurostat, Unit E3
Tag der Amtlichen Statistik Overview Background – ESEA 2008 + implementation plan WStatR and waste accounts The ideal framework Reality-check Next Steps A definition of sust. dev. 11 November 2008 Tag der Amtlichen Statistik
European Strategy on Environmental Accounts 2008 ESEA 2008, objectives: Assure availability of Environmental Accounts data from all European countries: Regular production of a core set of accounts Setting priorities according to ESS resources Assist National Statistical Institutes in maintaining and potentially expanding their work to provide harmonised, timely data of reasonable quality Focus: most developed areas: EPEA, EW- MFA, NAMEA air emissions Initiation of formulation of legal base for Environmental Accounts What will be the action of Eurostat in the near future: ESEA 2008 (could be adapted after the SPC and this meeting) 11 November 2008 Tag der Amtlichen Statistik
Tag der Amtlichen Statistik Eurostat Implementation plan for EA: Includes a project on waste accounts (finalised end 2010) Objectives: compile complete set of data for waste accounts all EU and EFTA countries, 1995 to 2006 (or to 2008) using existing official statistics available for Eurostat (e.g. WSR, Joint Eurostat/OECD questionnaire) includes estimation of data when necessary now-casting techniques for most recent years. Publication: only after discussion/validation with countries Policy demand: aggregations of EU countries Advantages: providing harmonised, timely data of reasonable quality while NOT increasing response-burden for countries 11 November 2008 Tag der Amtlichen Statistik
A Simplified Framework: Solid waste supply & use tables Domestic waste generation + waste import = Domestic waste treatment + waste export (+ waste to environment ?) 45 waste categories of WStatR aggregated to 12 main headings – divided into hazardous and non-hazardous Domestic waste generation: Industry breakdown as in WStatR 19 industries + households Domestic waste treatment: The treatment categories are Incinration, Recovery and Disposal all divided into hazardous and non-hazardous. 11 November 2008 Tag der Amtlichen Statistik
Table 1 - Schematic tables of waste generation WSR NACE n-H H 1 01-02 2 05 3 10-14 4 15-16 5 17-19 6 20 7 21-22 8 23 9 24-25 10 26 11 27-28 12 29-35 13 36 14 37 15 40-41 16 45 17 50-99 18 of which 51-57 19 of which 90 Households H: hazardous n-H: non-hazardous I n d u s t r i e Waste categories ( 11 November 2008 Tag der Amtlichen Statistik
Table 2 - Schematic tables of waste treatment 11 November 2008 Tag der Amtlichen Statistik
A Simplified Framework: Solid waste supply & use tables Domestic waste generation + waste import = Domestic waste treatment + waste export (+ waste to environment ?) Pilot study programme on statistics on import and export of waste – 11 pilots finalised in 2007 Foreign trade statistics most suitable data source Problems with nomeclatures (CN ><EWC-Stat), national reporting thresholds, confidentiality, data quality Proposal for integration of imports and exports into the reporting according to WStatR – so far not accepted 11 November 2008 Tag der Amtlichen Statistik
Tag der Amtlichen Statistik Proposal for Integration of imports and exports into the reporting format in accordance with Annex I to the Regulation on waste statistics 11 November 2008 Tag der Amtlichen Statistik
Tag der Amtlichen Statistik Next steps Steps in order to develop for Waste Accounts Waste generation tables + treatment tables Import/export of waste (intra EU/Extra EU) Balanced set of waste accounts A compilation manual for Waste Accounts? Further in the future Link to the material flows accounts (EW-MFA) Internally recycled/treated waste to be included ? Fully integrated accounts including waste treatment and expenditure ? 11 November 2008 Tag der Amtlichen Statistik
Thank you for your attention! Elisabeth Møllgaard Environmental Statistics and Accounts Eurostat Unit E3 estat-environment@ec.europa.eu http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/