1. Joint meeting of the working groups Environmental accounts and Monetary environmental statistics and accounts
15 May 2019
Quality reporting-National Metadata Implementation
Item 5 of the agenda
Fernando MORENTE
Unit B5: Data and metadata services and standards

2. National reporting on data quality
Regulation (EC) 223/2009 requires the Member States to submit quality reports on their data
Commission Recommendation 2009/498/EC proposes the Euro SDMX Metadata Structure (ESMS) for reporting on data quality
The 27th ESSC meeting in 2015 endorses the Single Integrated Metadata Structure (SIMS) for quality reporting
Since 2015, Eurostat has initiated the creation of national reporting files on data quality either in SIMS or ESMS format
Environmental taxes by economic activity (ETEA) and economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA) implement the standard SIMS structure for the data collections
Goal: Achieve full coverage of all statistical domains

3. National metadata coverage by Eurostat Directorates (as of May 2018)

4. The role of Eurostat Unit B5: Data and metadata service and standards
Support all stakeholders produce national metadata files by:
Making available to national and European metadata providers the ESS Metadata Handler (ESS MH) tool to produce national and European metadata files
Carrying out training courses
Next Webinars on ESS MH: June 2019, 10:00-12:00 C.E.T.

5. ESS MH / SDMX InfoSpace

6. Metadata implementation

7. The SIMS template will be applied for EDAMIS datasets:
Reporting Structure
The SIMS template will be applied for EDAMIS datasets:
ENVMFLAC_TAXIND_A -Environmentally related taxes by economic activity)
ENVPFLAC_MFA_A -Economy-wide material flow accounts (EW- MFA)
ENVPFLAC_AEA_A -Air emissions accounts (AEA)
ENVMFLAC_EGSS_A -Collection of data on environmental goods and services
ENVMFLAC_EPEAQ_A -Data collection on environmental protection expenditure accounts

8. Customised guidelines
Implementation
Customised guidelines

9. Implementation
Prefilling

10. Piloting phase
April 2019: piloting exercise with BE, DE, MT, TR colleagues for Environmentally related taxes by economic activity
Guidelines
Prefilling
Timeline for delivery (2-3 weeks)
Eurostat is seeking volunteers to test
the EW-MFA case during summer

11. National Reporting Future steps
Creation of national metadata files for environmental taxes by economic activity
Templates for all countries will be created in ESS-MH
The collection will be launched according to the timeline of the data collection
Data compilers contact to provide EU-Login and receive access rights to their template
Countries will complete fillable fields (concepts) in their file, save and send the file
Eurostat will validate and publish the files sent by the countries

12. ESSMH – log in

13. ESSMH – SIMS concepts

14. Dissemination of national and European metadata

15. Timeline
ENVMFLAC_TAXIND_A -Environmentally related taxes by economic activity (ETEA)
Collection start: end June 2019; Publication: January 2020
ENVPFLAC_MFA_A -Economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA)
Collection start: August Publication: February 2020
ENVPFLAC_AEA_A -Air emissions accounts (AEA)
data collection
ENVMFLAC_EGSS_A -Collection of data on environmental goods and services
ENVMFLAC_EPEAQ_A -Data collection on environmental protection expenditure accounts

16. Any question ?