Eurostat – Unit E2 Judita Horvathova Judita.Horvathova@ec.europa.eu Air emissions accounts – Data collection and dissemination (point 3.1 of the agenda) Eurostat – Unit E2 Judita Horvathova Judita.Horvathova@ec.europa.eu Working Group on Environmental Accounts Luxembourg, 9-10 March 2015

Overview AEA data production cycle Data collection 2014 Data collection 2015 – planned improvements Revision of AEA Manual (separate presentation by N. Steinbach)

1. AEA data production cycle

2. AEA data collection 2014 Reporting deadline 30/09/2014 30 datasets received, of which 27 from EU MSs National data and EU aggregates published on 19/12/2014 Better quality of initial datasets leads to shortened validation time by 71 days compared to 2013

AEA data collection 2014 – state of play

AEA data collection 2014 – Quality reports 29 QR received (26 EU + 2 EFTA + 1CC) 27 countries publish or plan to publish AEA nationally; 2 countries do not publish AEA at national level Approach used: 20 countries (19 EU + 1 CC): inventory first approach 2 EU MSs: energy first approach 7 countries ( EU +2 EFTA): combined approach 7 EU MSs, 2 EFTA countries and 1 candidate country provided data in NACE Rev. 2 for years before 2008 Cca. 1/3 of the countries has gaps or is not able to provide any information on bridging items

3. AEA data collection 2015 Launch of the questionnaire: 30/04/2015 Updated Manual for Air emissions accounts: 30/04/2015 Deadline for reporting data & quality reports: 30/09/2015 Obligatory reporting years: 2008 – 2013 Structure of questionnaire remains with small improvements Transmission via eDAMIS

4. Planned improvements Increased completeness of data ('bridging items', certain pollutants) Less or no confidential country data Start validation earlier Develop a method for estimating EU aggregates for 'bridging' items'

Questions for the WG Please comment on the improvements between 2013 and 2014 Agree on planned improvements for the 2015 data collection