1. Agenda item 4 EW-MFA Part 2 Early estimates for EW-MFA RMC estimates
Working Group Environmental Accounts Meeting 19–20 March 2013

2. Early estimates EW-MFA: Introduction
Policy demand for more timely EW-MFA data is high
Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) is currently leading indicator for the EU initiative on Resource Efficiency
Eurostat has planned the following…

3. Early estimates EW-MFA: ref.year 2011
27 Member States + aggregated EU-27
Detailed level (i.e. MF 3-digit)
Approach:
Some countries reported already (completly or partly)
Remaining countries are added “manually” (in the course of gap-filling time series)
Tables B to E: COMEXT (Eurostat foreign trade)
Table A: national sources (websites, annual yearbooks), Eurostat statistics, geological surveys
Publishing (Eurobase): planned March-April 2013

4. Early estimates EW-MFA: ref.year 2012
27 Member States + aggregated EU-27
Main MF categories (i.e. MF 1-digit)
Approach:
Simple regression models (Table A)
Predictors needed: timely available, good fitting
April-June 2013: searching and testing predictors
July-Sept 2013: model calculations
Publishing (Eurobase): hopefully autumn 2013

5. RMC-estimation: Introduction
The Raw Material Consumption (RMC) indicator overcomes a particular weakness of DMC
RMC considers imports and exports in their “Raw Material Equivalents (RME)”
= modelling needed
=> Eurostat model for aggregated EU-27 economy

6. Eurostat RME-model (EU-27)
Environmentally extended Input-Output model:
166x166 products and homogenous production branches
Hybrid use structures (monetary & physical)
35 LCA-products not produced in Europe (fuels, metals)
NACE rev.1.1
Detailed material breakdown (MF 3-digit)
Starting with reference year 2000 – annually up-dated

7. Eurostat RME-model (EU-27)
Model inputs (annually calibrated):
EW-MFA data sets
ESA Input-Output tables
External trade statistics (COMEXT)
Energy statistics, agriculture statistics, national accounts etc.

8. Eurostat RME-model (EU-27)
Model outputs:
Imports in RME
Domestic Extraction Used (DEU)
Exports in RME
=> RMC = DEU + IMP_RME – EXP_RME
By-product: RME coefficients
by categories of final use

9. Eurostat RME-model (EU-27) Work Planning 2013
Up-dating the model (gathering of input parameters)
Model calculations
Publication: mid year 2013 (reference period )

10. RMC estimates on country level
DG ENV would like to have RMC for country benchmarking
Yet, there is no clear strategy on how to obtain?
Various statistical-technical problems
=> MFA Task Force meeting: June 2013

11. The Working Group is asked:
To take note of the work done so far
To endorse the planning for the future work
in particular, to express their view on:
the strategy for early estimates
RMC estimates on country level