1. 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
Working Group on Environmental Accounts
Luxembourg, 9-10 March 2015

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

3. 1. AEA data production cycle

4. 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

5. AEA data collection 2014 – state of play

6. 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27 countries publish or plan to publish AEA nationally; 2 countries do not publish AEA at national level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

7. 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

8. 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'

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