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Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperationUnit E3: Environment statistics

‘DIMESA 2006’ Preparation Meeting, 13 and 14 March 2006Eurostat, Luxembourg, BECH Building – Room B2/404 and B3/464

Environment Statistics and Accounts Environment Statistics and Accounts at Eurostatat Eurostat

Pieter EveraersDirector E

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Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperationUnit E3: Environment statistics

Water Water Resources, Water Use, Wastewater

Waste Waste Statistics Regulation, Data Centre

Hazardous Substances: Chemicals, Pesticides Environmental Accounts Expenditure, Taxes, Environment

Industry, Production Consumption Patterns, Integrated Product Policy (IPP)

Natural Resources Material Flow Accounting (MFA), Data Centre

Greenhouse Gases National Accounting Matrix incl. Environmental Accounts (NAMEA-Air), Quality Assessment / Quality Control

Statistical domains:Statistical domains:

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Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperationUnit E3: Environment statistics

Annual “Directors’ Meeting” to bring the two networks together:

EIONET – Environment Ministries and Agencies

ESS – Environmental StatisticiansPlanning and Co-ordination of the Annual Work Programmes of EEA and Eurostat

Co-ordination of Environment Statistics Co-ordination of Environment Statistics and Accounts and Accounts

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Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperationUnit E3: Environment statistics

“Group of Four” discussion on thematic division of responsibilities for co-ordination: Eurostat = Data Centre for …

Waste Natural Resources Integrated Product Policy (IPP)

Streamlining of environmental indicators Application of Eurostat “Quality Profile”

Data Centres to be managed by Eurostat:Data Centres to be managed by Eurostat:

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Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperationUnit E3: Environment statistics

Waste, current situation:Waste, current situation:

… many data holders, information is scattered over:

DG Environment - Waste Unit: Data on packaging waste, “End of life Vehicles” (ELVs), waste electrical/electronic equipments (WEEE), shipment of waste, hazardous waste

EEA - Topic Centre ‘Resources and Waste Management’: Data in ReportNet, impact- and policy assessments, …

JRC - Soil and Waste Unit, research, technical assessment reports, …

Eurostat - Data in NewCronos, Joint Questionnaire, Waste Statistics Regulation, Structural Indicator, …

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Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperationUnit E3: Environment statistics

Data Centre “Waste” Data Centre “Waste” Implementation of the Waste Statistics Regulation is key

priority Integrate quantitative reporting under Community law on

waste (Start with Packaging Waste, ELVs and WEEE)

Quality assurance and control (QA/QC)

Improve access to data (‘fit for purpose’, ‘knowledge base’)

Indicator Development: To monitor the Thematic Strategy with appropriate indicators (e.g. recycling rates, waste per NACE sector, per value added, household waste, waste treatment indicators)

Good communication with the other actors essential

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Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperationUnit E3: Environment statistics

Natural Resources, current situation:Natural Resources, current situation:

Eurostat is a key actor in Material Flow Accounts (MFA) development (UN Committee, London Group, OECD), however:

Basic resource data is only based on estimations made at EU 15 level

Data is dispersed over a variety of institutions/bodies, therefore difficult to access

Lack of commitment: e.g. MFA data is collected on voluntary basis, resulting in limited comparability, completeness, timeliness

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Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperationUnit E3: Environment statistics

Data Centre “Natural Resources”Data Centre “Natural Resources” Improve data availability, comparability and completeness of

Material Flow Accounts at EU-25 level: set of harmonised standard tables, improved public access, ‘fit for purpose’

Identification and maintenance of main existing information sources

Maintain network of expertise, assure good communication on methodology and data with all actors

Quality assurance and control Indicator Development: To monitor the Thematic Strategy with

appropriate (decoupling-) indicators showing:• the use of resources • the environmental impact of resource use

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Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperationUnit E3: Environment statistics

Integrated Product Policy, current situationIntegrated Product Policy, current situation IPP has the aim to reduce the environmental impact of

products and is therefore closely related to the work on Natural Resources and Waste

Knowledge on environmental impacts of products is scattered and neither collected nor made available systematically

Eurostat hosts data on production jrc sevilla intend=sive studies on ipp and trade of products

Indicators to monitor the effectiveness of IPP are not available and basic data still missing, studies on the development of indicators are ongoing

(commissioned by DG Environment)

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Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperationUnit E3: Environment statistics

Data Centre “Integrated Product Policy”Data Centre “Integrated Product Policy” Detailed objectives of the IPP Data Centre will be defined

after results of ongoing studies are available (2006) Data Centre will be established within the Natural

Resources Team (2007) Eurostat will promote the use of Physical Input-Output

tables (PIOTs) Eurostat will closely cooperate with the JRC The Production Statistics and Trade databases will be

explored for the potential of identification of changes caused by IPP (PRODCOM and COMEXT)

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Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperationUnit E3: Environment statistics

Streamlining of Environmental IndicatorsStreamlining of Environmental Indicators Various sets of environmental indicators exist, some

have the same name but show different things, others have different names but show the same.

The data centres shall coordinate the indicator work (between EEA Core Set, Structural Indicators, Sustainable Development Indicators, …)

Eurostat has the lead on the streamlining exercise: Started November 2005 Identification of potential by Mid 2006 Integrated List of indicators by November 2006

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Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperationUnit E3: Environment statistics

Quality Assurance / Quality ControlQuality Assurance / Quality Control

Data centres have essential role in providing final quality assurance on the data to be used for policy making

However, data providers have primary responsibility to ensure quality of their data

Eurostat will assure close collaboration among the data centres on data quality and will assist the other data centres in the application of the Quality Profile

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Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperationUnit E3: Environment statistics

Eurostat has confirmed the “Technical Arrangement” on the division of roles by the Directors General of the four institutions (December 2005)

Eurostat: Waste, Natural Resources and Integrated Product Policy (IPP)

JRC: Soil and Forestry EEA: Air, Climate Change, Water,

Biodiversity and Land Use

Environmental Data CentresEnvironmental Data Centres

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Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperationUnit E3: Environment statistics

Eurostat will in 2006 prepare a Communication to the European Parliament and to the Council on a Strategy for Environment Statistics

“The Strategy will present a prioritised and staged programme of action for environmental statistics and accounts, to allow the necessary prioritisation in mid to long term in an area with a very rapid increase in the demand for data and indicators”

Communication on Environment StatisticsCommunication on Environment Statistics