1. Working Group “Environmental Expenditure Statistics” Preliminary results from the Joint Questionnaire on Environmental Protection Expenditure and Revenues
European Commission – Eurostat – Directorate ‘E’
Unit E3 – Environment Statistics
Luxembourg, May 2007

2. Contents The OECD/Eurostat Joint Questionnaire
New Questionnaire on data quality and data use
Data availability for environmental protection expenditure

3. Joint Questionnaire Developed in cooperation of the OECD and Eurostat
to collect data on environmental protection expenditure from countries
Data is required on a voluntary basis
Sent out every two years

4. Joint Questionnaire Environmental domains air noise
wastewater biodiversity and landscape
waste other domains
soil and groundwater total domains
Expenditure variables
Investment expenditure (end of pipe, integrated technology)
Current expenditure (internal, fees and purchases)
Subsidies / transfers
Receipts from by-products
Revenues

5. Joint Questionnaire 2006
Was sent out in November 2006 together with a new questionnaire on data quality and data use
Last date of response was planned to be
31 December 2006
Due to low response rate the last date of response was postponed to 15 March 2007

6. Joint Questionnaire 2006 37 countries received the JQ 2006
EU-Member States
EFTA-countries
Balkan Countries, Turkey
24 countries replied until 31 March 2007,
thereof 20 EU-countries

7. Joint Questionnaire 2006 Covers data from 1995 – 2005
Validation started in late February 2007
Revisions of the first data set
Estimations of NACE C, D, E, public sector, specialised producers
Publication of the results of the JQ 2006 is planned for October 2007

8. New questionnaire 2006 on data quality and data use
Data collection procedure
Activity sectors covered in the totals reported
Publication and use of data
Information on the relation between statistics delivered through SBS to data delivered to JQ
(for countries reporting to Eurostat)

9. New questionnaire 2006 on data quality and data use
Information of 14 countries received
11 countries replied on the question on relation between SBS and JQ
8 countries do not expect differences between data delivered to SBS and data reported through JQ due to the use of the same data source

10. New questionnaire 2006 on data quality and data use
Conclusion / discussion
A more complete overview of the situation in the countries is necessary in order to consider the pre-filling of the JQ with data from the SBS.
How can this aim be reached und thus the reporting burden for countries being reduced?
Proposals on how to continue!

11. Data availability of environmental protection expenditure
Data coverage for 2003 is clearly better than for 2004/2005
Data availability related to sectors (investments)
- public sector
- mining and quarrying
- manufacturing industry
- electricity, gas, water
- specialised producers

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16. Conclusions / discussion points
Reply rate could be improved. Is the schedule for delivering the data too tight?
Data report required for 2005 too early?
Main problems during filling in the tables!
Reasons for delay in providing data later than 2003 for some countries
What is the attitude of the countries towards an extra sheet containing questions on resource management expenditure? See recommendation of the TF (6 February 2007) and proposal of the OECD.

17. Thank you for your attention!