1. Working Group ”Environmental Accounts”
Waste NAMEAs
Working Group ”Environmental Accounts”
23 – 24 March 2009
Eurostat, Unit E3

2. Tag der Amtlichen Statistik
Overview
Background – ESEA implementation plan
WStatR and waste accounts
The ideal framework
Reality-check
Next Steps
A definition of sust. dev.
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3. 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)
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4. 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
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5. 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.
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6. 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 (
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7. Table 2 - Schematic tables of waste treatment
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8. 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
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9. 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
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10. 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 ?
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11. Thank you for your attention!
Elisabeth Møllgaard
Environmental Statistics and Accounts
Eurostat Unit E3