1. Resource Use and Management Expenditure Account (RUMEA)
Sacha Baud
Directorate Spatial Statistics
Vienna
24 – 27 September 2012

2. D RUMEA - Definition SERIEE framework Economy Environment
Resource Use and Management Accounts
Environmental Protection Expenditure Accounts
Collecting and processing of basic data:
e.g. Environment Industry
Environment
The main target of RUMEA is the assessment of the actual expenditure for natural resource use and management of the total economy.
RUMEA includes all actions and activities
to provide the socio-economic system with the natural resource input necessary for production and consumption purposes (RU) and
to preserve and maintain the stock of natural resources against depletion (RM).

3. D RUMEA - Definition
Resource use covers all actions and activities relating to research, exploration and withdrawal of natural resources, as well as the distribution of water (other distribution activities are excluded). Resource management focuses on all actions and activities to reduce the withdrawals of natural resources (recovery, reuse, recycling, savings, substitution of natural resources) and to restore natural resource stocks (increases/recharges of natural resource stocks), and on instrumental activities like monitoring, control, administration, regulation, training, R&D etc. Resource use or resource management must be the primary purpose. Focus is on non-cultivated/non-produced natural resources which are used as goods. Excluded are therefore produced natural resources, like livestock and plants, and environmental services which result from uses of certain functions of natural assets, e.g. assimilation of pollutants, aesthetic value etc.

4. RUMEA Relationship between EPEA, RUMEA and EGSS EPEA RUMEA ReMEA RUA
CEPA classification
CRUMA classification
CReMA
EGSS
Source: based onEurostat, 2011

5. D ReMEA – framework
The ReMEA accounting system consists of the following tables: Table A – National resource management expenditure by components and by users/beneficiaries Table B – Production (supply) of resource management products Table B1 – Supply and use table of resource management products Table C – Financing of national expenditure for resource management Table C1 – Net cost burden for resource use and management
Proposed workflow for filling in the tables:
Table B -> table B1 -> table A -> table C -> table C1.
Focus on tables B, B1 and A. Tables C and C1 can be filled in automatically based on simplifying assumptions.

6. D ReMEA – framework
Classification of Resource Management Activities (CReMA):
Management of waters
Management of forest resources
11 A. Management of forest areas
11 B. Minimisation of the intake of forest resources
Management of wild flora and fauna
Management of energy resources
13 A. Production of energy from renewable sources
13 B. Heat/energy saving and management
13 C. Minimisation of the intake of fossil resources as raw material for uses other than energy production
Management of minerals
Research and Development
Other natural resource management activities

7. D ReMEA – current state of play
In 2010 Eurostat started the Task Force on Resource Use and Management Expenditure Account to develop a methodology for the compilation of natural resource use and management expenditure.
Work is still going on. Main results are so far:
For a future data collection the focus should be restricted on resource management with priority on energy, mineral, water and forest resources.
The accounting tables should be developed into a working tool with standard assumptions. The tables are the same as for EPEA (A, B, B1, C, C1) but in view of a possible future data collection they should be limited to B and B1.
At the moment data collection should be limited to specialised producers.