1. Integrated environmental and economic accounting for forests
IEEAF – September 2011
Marilise Wolf-Crowther, Eurostat E.3

2. What is IEEAF ?
Set of 13 tables created by a task force in the late 1990s
Only Table 3c, the economic accounts for forestry and logging, requested
Voluntary yearly exercise
Some countries fill in all tables

3. Table 3c: Economic accounts for forestry and logging
Re-started in 2008
23 countries: 21 EU, 2 EFTA; one EU country preparing data
More countries are joining in. Reasons for renewal of interest may be
Economic viability and rural development in view of next CAP financial period?
Environmental functions of forests as sinks of CO2 and habitats of high biodiversity?
Multi-functionality of forests means economic viability is no longer the main focus, but the costs are of interest?

4. Table 3c: examples of how we use the data
Economic viability of forestry
Main indicators for DG Agriculture
Gross value added
Gross fixed capital formation
Employment
With growing stock (m3) in forests available for wood supply and share harvested (FRA, MCPFE)
With data on production from our second questionnaire

7. The other twelve IEEAF tables
23 countries reporting economic data on forestry and logging
Only 7 countries reporting on forest area, volume and value of increment and removals (Tab. 1a, 2a, 2b)
The best: BG, DE, FR, SK
We need annual running estimates of area & volume for
Resource efficiency (Europe 2020)
Energy and climate topics
Indicators of economic viability of forestry
Forest Resources Assessment (FAO) often repeats for 15 years

8. Tables 1a, 2a, 2b: Forest assets
Try to encourage countries to provide yearly estimates
Based on national forest inventory data, repeated every years
Harmonisation of inventory data has failed
Such data should be available as running estimates in countries where forestry is important

11. Other IEEAF tables of interest
3a: Output related to wooded land by industry and type of output – incl. recreational services, non-wood products
F1: Carbon balance for woody biomass
F2: Carbon balance for the forest ecosystem
..... Whole suite of more complicated tables that follow national accounts concepts

12. IEEAF is the template for SEEA forest assets
UN System of environmental-economic accounts 2003
Under revision, final in Feb 2012
Eurostat involved in drafting
All documents:
Ecosystems to be dealt with in Part II

13. ...and may get a legal base
New Regulation on environmental accounting,
Regulation (EU) 691/2011
... mentions forestry accounts as a possible future module

14. Links See our website Our wiki article in Statistics explained
Our latest book, Forestry in the EU and the world, 2011

15. Thank you for your attention!