Environmental Protection Expenditure Accounts (EPEA)
NOTES ON METHODOLOGY
Legal and methodological framework
Data on Environmental Protection Expenditure Accounts (EPEA) are collected by
using the reporting method, through the Report on Investments in Environmental
Protection and Expenditures on Goods and Services in Environment in 2019 (IDU-OK
form), and use the already existing data obtained from the national accounts
(production and generation of income accounts; gross fixed capital formation
(GFCF) according to NKD, supply and use tables; data based on the Classification
of the Functions of Government), business registers and other sources.
Coverage
Environmental protection expenditure accounts present data in a way that is
compatible with the data reported under the European System of Accounts (ESA
2010). Reporting units are all
business entities and parts thereof listed in the Statistical Business Register,
as well as government bodies and non-profit organisations. Based on available
data, the selection of statistical units includes all statistical units that had
more than 90% of total investments in or expenditures on environmental
protection according to the NKD 2007. activity sections.
Data sources used in updating of the Address Book are those of the Statistical
Business Register, the Financial Agency, as well as other, secondary sources.
Definitions
Environmental protection expenditure
means the
economic resources devoted by resident units to environmental protection.
Environmental protection includes all activities and actions which have as their
main purpose the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution and of any
other degradation of the environment. Those activities and actions include all
measures taken in order to restore the environment after it has been degraded.
Intermediate consumption
is the money spent
on all purposeful activities directly aimed at the prevention, reduction and
elimination of pollution or any other degradation of the environment. It
includes current expenditure on goods and services.
Investments
refer to the total realised investments in assets, methods, practices,
technologies, processes and equipment for environmental protection. Realised
investments are also construction works and asset acquisitions done during the
reporting year, regardless of whether they were completed and paid for or not.
Specialist producers of environmental
protection services
are producers engaged in the production of environmental goods and services
(i.e. waste collection, wastewater treatment). They are included in divisions
37, 38 and 39 of section E.
Other corporations as consumers of
environmental protection services
are corporations
that either produce or use environmental goods and services. They are included
in sections B, C, D, and E – division 36.
Classification of Environmental Protection Activities (CEPA 2000)
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Environmental protection activities
(CEPA)
include appropriate activities and measures aimed at preventing pollution,
reducing and/or eliminating environmental damage, and restoring the environment
to pre-damage conditions.
They are divided as follows:
protection of ambient air and climate (CEPA 1), wastewater management (CEPA 2),
waste management (CEPA 3), protection and remediation of soil, groundwater and
surface water (CEPA 4), noise and vibration abatement (CEPA 5), protection of
biodiversity and landscapes (CEPA 6), protection against radiation (CEPA 7),
environmental research and development (CEPA 8) and other environmental
protection activities (CEPA 9).
Abbreviations
NKD 2007.
National Classification of
Activities, 2007 version
This document has been produced with the
financial assistance of the European Union. The contents of this document are
the sole responsibility of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics and can under no
circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union.