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Explanatory meeting on the acquis��Environment & sustainable development indicators

Arturo de la Fuente

Eurostat E2 ‘Environment statistics and accounts; sustainable development’

arturo.de-la-fuente@ec.europa.eu

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12-13 February 2019. Luxembourg

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Scope of this presentation

  1. Environmental accounts
  2. Waste statistics
  3. Sustainable development indicators

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1. Environmental accounts

There are 2 pillars:

  • European Strategy on Environmental Accounts 2019-2023
    • Not legal act but high level agreement with National Statistical Offices
    • Establishes priorities for 2019-2023 and work beyond 2023
  • Regulation (EU) 691/2011 on European environmental accounts
    • Amended by Regulation (EU) 538/2014
    • EU law to compile data, transmit to Eurostat and set quality standards
    • Modular structure
    • 6 environmental accounts in the regulation (next slide)

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Modules European environmental accounts (Regulation 691/2011)

    • Air emissions accounts
    • Environmentally related taxes by economic activity
    • Economy-wide material flow accounts
    • Environmental protection expenditure
    • Environmental goods and services sector
    • Physical energy flow accounts

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Eurostat also collects voluntary extensions & variables

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Features of data transmissions

  • Annual data collections
  • Reporting deadline different for each module
  • Eurostat provides handbooks and compilation tools

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/environment/methodology

  • Technical format: Excel questionnaires
  • Migration to SDMX data transmissions
    • Eurostat provides conversion tools
  • Also migration of quality reports from Word/Excel to SDMX i.e. ESS metadata handler

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2. Waste statistics �Regulation 2150/2002/EC

Amended and implemented by:

    • Commission Regulation (EU) No 849/2010 �amending Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 on waste statistics
    • Commission Regulation (EC) No 782/2005 �setting out the format for the transmission of results on waste statistics
    • Commission Regulation (EC) No 1445/2005 �defining the proper quality evaluation criteria and the contents of the quality reports for waste statistics

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Structure Waste Stats Regulation

Main text contains:

    • Definitions, methods for data collection, implementation measures, …

Annex I:

    • Generation of waste
    • Coverage of collection scheme for mixed household and similar waste

Annex II:

    • Recovery and disposal of waste
    • Treatment infrastructure (number, capacity of treatment facilities)

Annex III:

    • Table of Equivalence between statistical waste nomenclature EWC-Stat and European List of Waste (LoW)

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Waste generation is broken down:

    • By source / origin of waste:
      • 19 sectors : 18 economic sectors (NACE) and ‘households’
    • By waste category:
      • 51 waste categories, based on EWC-Stat Rev 4

Waste treatment is broken down:

    • By treatment category (based on WFD)
      • 3 recovery categories + 3 disposal categories
    • By waste category:
      • 51 waste categories, based on EWC-Stat Rev 4

Further information on waste statistics: �http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/waste

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Other European waste legislation

  • Waste Framework Directive (WFD) (2008/98/EC)
      • Waste definition
      • Definition of waste treatment
      • Recovery and Disposal operations (Annex I and II)
      • Definition of hazardous waste
      • List of Wastes (LoW) (last amended by 2014/955/EU)
      • Basis for the statistical waste nomenclature EWC-Stat
      • Landfill Directive 1999/31/EC
      • Definition of landfills
    • Incineration Directive 2000/76/EC
      • Replaced by directive 2010/75/EU as from 07/01/2014
      • Definition of incineration

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3. Sustainable development

United Nations 2030 Agenda

17 goals, 169 targets

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Different levels of SDG reporting

(Selected)

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  1. United Nations
  2. Regional (European Union)
  3. National

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EU SDG monitoring: policy background

European Commission Communication on

Next steps for a sustainable European future

released on 22 November 2016

«From 2017 onwards, the Commission will carry out more detailed regular monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals in an EU context, developing a reference indicator framework for this purpose»

Eurostat has published EU SDG reports in 2016, 2017 & 2018

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Eurostat

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Eurostat 2018 EU SDG monitoring package

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Online database

Monitoring report & Brochure

Eurostat

Digital publication – NEW!

Dedicated website

Statistics Explained

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Eurostat uses 3 categories of data for the EU SDG report

  1. Datasets from mandatory Eurostat data collections
    • Covered in this 2-day meeting about statistical acquis
  2. Datasets from voluntary Eurostat data collections

E.g. generation municipal waste, gender pay gap

  • Datasets collected or produced by 3rd parties

E.g. Greenhouse gas emissions for UNFCCC

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We need deliveries of data type 2 too!!

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Thank you for your attention!!

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Additional slides

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Eurostat

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SDG indicator sets: comparison

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UN SDGs

(17 goals, 169 targets)

EU SDGs (2018 set)

(same 17 goals, no targets)

232 indicators

100 indicators

  • 55 aligned with UN SDG indicators
  • 28 aligned with high-level scoreboards of EU policies

circa 40% ‘ready’ to use (‘tier I’)

100% ready to use

Additional 18 indicators ‘on hold’ for possible future inclusion in EU SDG set

5 multipurpose indicators

42 multipurpose indicators

Decentralised ownership in UN custodian agencies

Centralised process in Eurostat

Data producers not clearly stated

(each country appoints responsible institutions)

Data producers clearly stated

67 indicators from official statistics, 33 from other sources

Reviews in 2020 and 2025 +

regular assessment of agreed methodologies

Reviewed every year

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Eurostat

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Annex II

Breakdown by treatment categories

* Recovery and Disposal operations (Annexes I and II to Waste Framework Directive)

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Eurostat

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Annex II

Number and capacity of treatment facilities

Treatment facilities

Item No

Type of facility

Required variables

No. of facilities

Capacity

No. of facilities closed since last reference year

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Energy recovery

X

X

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2

Waste incineration

X

X

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3a

Recovery facilities (recycling)

X

-

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3b

Backfilling installations

X

-

-

4

Landfills for:

Hazardous waste

X

X

X

Non-haz. waste

X

X

X

Inert waste

X

X

X

5

Other disposal facilities

-

-

-

Eurostat

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Summary

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Data set

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Description,

Code …

Waste generation

1

GENER

Waste treatment

2

TREATM

Treatment infrastructure and collection coverage

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REGIO

Characteristics:

Waste generated

Waste treated

No. and capacity of treatment installations

Coverage of waste collection scheme

Breakdown by:

18 economic sectors (NACE)

1 sector ‚households‘

6 waste treatment categories

5 waste treatment categories

not applicable

No of waste categories (EWC-Stat):

51

51

Not applicable

1 (mixed household and similar waste)

Reporting units:

tonnes

tonnes

tonnes/year

m³

% of population

Geographical level:

national

national

NUTS 2

national

Legal basis:

Annex I

Annex II

Annex II

Annex I

Data requirements

Eurostat

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EWC-Stat

EWC-Stat (Version 4, Section 2, Annex I)

  • The EWC-Stat is a material-oriented aggregation of the List of Wastes (LoW, Com Dec 532/2000/EC)
  • Every entry of the EWC-Stat corresponds to one or more entries of the List of Wastes (1:n-relationship)
  • This relation allows an unambiguous conversion of the LoW into the EWC-Stat on the basis of the Table of Equivalence in Annex III WStatR
    • Countries that collect data by the LoW can convert the results into WStatR formats on the basis of WStatR Annex III

Statistical waste classification

Eurostat

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Annex I - All waste generated within the country:

    • Includes waste that is exported
    • Excludes waste that is imported

Annex II - All waste treated within the country

    • Excludes waste that is exported
    • Includes waste that is imported

Different coverage than Annex I on waste generation

Annex II refers to the final treatment of waste

    • Pre-treatment operations (e.g. sorting) shall not be reported

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Annexes I and II

Coverage

Eurostat

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Quality Report

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  • Commission Regulation 1445/2005/EC�defining the proper quality evaluation criteria and the contents of the quality reports for waste statistics
  • Part 1 – general description of methods applied
    • Survey
    • Administrative source
    • Modelling
    • Others

Eurostat

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Quality report

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  • Part 2 – Report on quality attributes

1 Relevance

2 Accuracy

2.1 Sampling errors

2.2 Non-sampling errors

3 Timeliness and punctuality

4 Accessibility and clarity

5 Comparability

6 Coherence

7 Burden on respondents

Coverage

Measurement

Processing

Non-response

Model assumption

Eurostat

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Annex

Eurostat

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Annex

Eurostat