1. Environmental goods and services sector
Eurostat Unit E2 Environmental accounts and climate change

2. Overview Introduction Progress made since the meeting of the WG 2012
2013 EGSS questionnaire
activities related to EGSS in other Commission services
Further actions for 2013 in the area
Questions

3. Introduction 2009: 2010 – WG decided on a biennial data collection
EGSS handbook and workshop
pilot data collection: 10 countries replied with data (DE, SE, AT, BE, LV,NL, NO, PT, RO and FR.)
2010 – WG decided on a biennial data collection
2011 -first official collection launched
response rate of 2011 data collection: 12 Member States (FR, SE, RO, FI, DE, LV, CZ, LT, ES, AT, NL, IT);
2013:
7 February – ESS committee expressed positive opinion on the proposal for amending Regulation 691/2011: to include EGSS
data collection launched on 28 February

4. Progress made since the meeting of the WG 2012
ESMS
Statistics explained article

5. Progress made since the meeting of the WG 2012
2013 data collection: update of the EGSS list

6. Progress made since the meeting of the WG data collection - basic data validation tools developed in the Excel questionnaire

7. Progress made since the meeting of the WG 2012
Simplification of the questionnaire and instructions bringing closer to the structure of the future EGSS module for the Regulation 691/2011
table ‘Output - details’ deleted
requested breakdown for exports modified from a CPA to a NACE breakdown
unit of measure prefilled
‘not applicable’ sign (‘-‘) prefilled for cells where no environmental product is likely to be reported

8. Progress made since the meeting of the WG 2012
A*64 for E36
More detailed level than A*64 for E 37-39
Simplification of the requested NACE breakdown
- mainly A*21
A*38 for M72 and M73-75
A*64 for M69-71

9. Progress made since the meeting of the WG 2012
Activities in other Commission services related to EGSS:
DG Environment - different studies to provide an estimation of the market (market size, employment, export potential, etc.) for ecoindustry:
Different consultants use different methodologies - the figures of successive studies are not strictly comparable
key source to estimate market size and employment:
environmental protection expenditure data from Eurostat
other Eurostat data (e.g. on the recycling industry)

10. Progress made since the meeting of the WG 2012
International Labour Organisation (November 2012):
technical expert group to discuss possibilities for moving towards a statistical definition of green jobs:
different aspects of "green" jobs and the "green“ economy which need to be kept apart:
green occupations - does not measure all green (environmental) jobs
jobs in green industries
jobs generated by green policies
draft report - tackles the conceptual and measurement framework for defining and identifying green jobs
key element - define 'green jobs' in relation to the SEEA 2012 central framework's definition of environmental activities

11. Further activities for 2013 in the area
Data validation for 2013 data collection– to start in July 2013
Advance of the EGSS legal module:
Improve the EGSS questionnaire and list; update of the EGSS handbook
Clarify methodological issues related to EGSS
Design and implementation of estimation procedures for EU aggregates
development of gap filling methods for the EGSS variables
estimate the EU aggregates:
data transmitted by countries
information from other statistical domains (national accounts, structural business statistics and JQ-EPER)
EGSS course
6-7 June deadline for applications 5 April 2013
Next data collection: 2015
As of 2017, annual data collection

12. Delegates are kindly requested to express their opinion on
Further activities for 2013, in particular related to:
Improvement of the EGSS questionnaire and list
Clarification of methodological issues related to EGSS
Update of the EGSS handbook
Development of gap filling methods for the EGSS variables