Legislation in preparation: draft implementing act (point 5 of the agenda) Eurostat – Unit E2 Arturo de la Fuente arturo.de-la-fuente@ec.europa.eu Joint meeting Working Groups on Environmental Accounts & Environmental Expenditure Statistics Luxembourg, 10 March 2015

Existing obligations to develop Reg. 691/2011 Indicative compendium for EGSS (Art. 3.5) Deadline 31 December 2015 Technical format for data transmission (Art. 6) No deadline Modalities, structure and periodicity of quality reports (Art. 7) Eurostat proposes one single implementing act covering the 3 issues Separate delegated act for energy product list

Indicative compendium EGSS (1/3) Lawmakers introduced a provision in Article 3 during the negotiations to amend Regulation 691/2011 (module EGSS) Eurostat to establish an indicative compendium to facilitate a uniform application of Annex V i.e. module EGSS Elements of the Eurostat proposal: 1 table of economic activities 1 table of environmental goods and services How to use those tables to facilitate uniform application while providing flexibility There is also a 3rd table about categories of data sources. It is not proposed for inclusion in the legal act

Indicative compendium EGSS (2/3) Tables of activities and goods and services Indicating NACE, CEPA and CReMA class Proposed tables based on: Eurostat experience collecting voluntary EGSS transmissions National experiences Handbooks and practical guides Input from the Task Force on environmental transfers Some WG members sent written comments after document disseminated Eurostat welcomes more written comments after this WG meeting and before the June DIMESA

Indicative compendium EGSS (3/3) How to provide for flexibility in the application of the tables? Two-step approach proposed: Countries must analyse the 2 tables to assess which codes have national relevance Relevance means: Statistical significance of the products/activities Existence of data sources to produce estimates The products/activities identified as relevant must be covered in the national EGSS calculations This approach means that countries must report to Eurostat about the relevance of the products/activities Assessment of the relevance must be repeated regularly

Technical format for data transmission Proposed text: "Member States shall provide data required by the Reg. 691/2011 using the data and metadata exchange standards by the ESS" Explanation: Text agreed with Eurostat services concerned Similar texts exist in other domains It does not mention explicitly SDMX. DSD not ruled by the legal act Intention is moving gradually into ESS standards while avoiding unnecessary burden for transmissions

Quality reports Paragraph 1: quality criteria are those from Reg. 223/2009 on the ESS Paragraph 2: quality reports with annual periodicity and same deadline as data transmissions i.e., different from each module Paragraph 3: scope of quality reports. Text proposed has been used in other statistical domains, adapted to (the quality dimensions of) accounts The idea is to Maintain the status quo as regards contents of QR Allowing for future improvements of QR contents Gradually move to transmissions based on ESS metadata handler (web form)

Next steps Collect comments from the WG Improve the proposed draft legal act Seek support from DIMESA in June meeting Adoption by ESSC in September Launch legal procedure Publication by 31 December 2015 EGSS compendium can be used in the 2016 transmission Trasmission becomes mandatory in 2017 Format for data transmissions and quality reports would be changed gradually

Questions for the WG The WG is asked to: Propose improvements to the draft legal act Endorse the proposal as to move forward to DIMESA