1. Eurostat – Unit E2 Annamaria Szirony Annamaria.szirony@ec.europa.eu
Environmental protection expenditure – Data production and dissemination (point 2.1 of the agenda)
Eurostat – Unit E2
Annamaria Szirony
Working Group on Environmental Expenditure Statistics
Luxembourg, March 2015

2. Overview JQ 2013: Data validation and dissemination
JQ 2014: Collection, validation and dissemination of data
Future plans

3. JQ 2013: Data validation
March-June 2014 – data set validated, gap-filled and disseminated
Several countries significantly improved timeliness and coverage of their data – required less gap-filling estimates
Two countries (IT and CY) that previously delivered data did not participate in the JQ 2013 data collection exercise – resulted in higher share of estimates for last reporting years

4. JQ 2013: Data dissemination
June 2014: detailed data from the JQ 2013 and EU totals were uploaded on Eurobase
Indicators on environmental protection expenditure were updated accordingly
July 2014: Statistics explained article on EPE was updated
February 2015: Pocketbook 'Energy, transport and environment indicators — 2014 edition' published

5. JQ 2014: Collection and validation of data
Data collection launched in September 2014; transmission deadline 17 December 2014
Replies from 23 countries, of which 20 Member States
5 countries that previously delivered JQ data sets (AT, DE, HU, IT, NL) did not participate in the data collection exercise
Several countries improved the coverage of their data
About half of the countries could not deliver data for the last reporting year at least for one sector – the share of estimates still high for last years
Data validation and gap-filling ended on 6 March

6. JQ 2014: Collection and validation of data

7. JQ 2014: Dissemination of data
9 March 2015: detailed data from the JQ 2013 and EU totals were uploaded on Eurobase
9 March: indicators on environmental protection expenditure were updated accordingly
March 2015: Statistics explained article on EPE will be updated
explained/index.php/Environmental_protection_expenditure#

8. Total EPE for EU28, million EUR

9. Future plans Environmental protection expenditure data collection 2015
Since the March 2014 WG meeting, Eurostat has prepared a revised version of EPEA questionnaire to be used for data reporting
Eurostat proposes to use EPEA questionnaire for 2015 data collection
The questionnaire will be prefilled for years
either with data from Eurostat's database
or with EPEA time series received via grant project reports (whenever available)
In agreement with OECD, 2015 data collection will be launched in September 2015 with a reporting deadline in December 2015

10. Conclusions
The move from biannual to annual data collection has resulted in better data quality and improved timeliness of the data
Data coverage and timeliness has improved. However, the data set is still incomplete and there are a few Member States which do not report EPE data at all
In order to be prepared for the mandatory EPEA reporting under Regulation 691/2011 starting from 2017 it is important to use the EPEA questionnaires from this year onwards

11. The Working Group is kindly asked to:
Take note of the progress made in the JQ 2014 data collection
For the countries which could not deliver data for the last years: could you advance the production of these figures?
Support the changeover from JQ-EPER to EPEA questionnaire from 2015 data collection