1. Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 1 ‘DIMESA 2006’ Preparation Meeting, 13 and 14 March 2006 Eurostat, Luxembourg, BECH Building – Room B2/404 and B3/464 Environment Statistics and Accounts at Eurostat Pieter Everaers Director E

2. Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 2  Water Water Resources, Water Use, Wastewater  Waste Waste Statistics Regulation, Data Centre  Hazardous Substances: Chemicals, Pesticides  Environmental Accounts Expenditure, Taxes, Environment Industry, Production Consumption Patterns, Integrated Product Policy (IPP)  Natural Resources Material Flow Accounting (MFA), Data Centre  Greenhouse Gases National Accounting Matrix incl. Environmental Accounts (NAMEA-Air), Quality Assessment / Quality Control Statistical domains:

3. Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 3 Annual “Directors’ Meeting” to bring the two networks together:  EIONET – Environment Ministries and Agencies  ESS – Environmental Statisticians Planning and Co-ordination of the Annual Work Programmes of EEA and Eurostat Co-ordination of Environment Statistics and Accounts

4. Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 4  “Group of Four” discussion on thematic division of responsibilities for co-ordination: Eurostat = Data Centre for …  Waste  Natural Resources  Integrated Product Policy (IPP)  Streamlining of environmental indicators  Application of Eurostat “Quality Profile” Data Centres to be managed by Eurostat:

5. Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 5 Waste, current situation: … many data holders, information is scattered over:  DG Environment - Waste Unit: Data on packaging waste, “End of life Vehicles” (ELVs), waste electrical/electronic equipments (WEEE), shipment of waste, hazardous waste  EEA - Topic Centre ‘Resources and Waste Management’: Data in ReportNet, impact- and policy assessments, …  JRC - Soil and Waste Unit, research, technical assessment reports, …  Eurostat - Data in NewCronos, Joint Questionnaire, Waste Statistics Regulation, Structural Indicator, …

6. Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 6 Data Centre “Waste”  Implementation of the Waste Statistics Regulation is key priority  Integrate quantitative reporting under Community law on waste (Start with Packaging Waste, ELVs and WEEE)  Quality assurance and control (QA/QC)  Improve access to data ( ‘fit for purpose’, ‘knowledge base’)  Indicator Development: To monitor the Thematic Strategy with appropriate indicators (e.g. recycling rates, waste per NACE sector, per value added, household waste, waste treatment indicators)  Good communication with the other actors essential

7. Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 7 Natural Resources, current situation:  Eurostat is a key actor in Material Flow Accounts (MFA) development (UN Committee, London Group, OECD), however:  Basic resource data is only based on estimations made at EU 15 level  Data is dispersed over a variety of institutions/bodies, therefore difficult to access  Lack of commitment: e.g. MFA data is collected on voluntary basis, resulting in limited comparability, completeness, timeliness

8. Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 8 Data Centre “Natural Resources”  Improve data availability, comparability and completeness of Material Flow Accounts at EU-25 level: set of harmonised standard tables, improved public access, ‘fit for purpose’  Identification and maintenance of main existing information sources  Maintain network of expertise, assure good communication on methodology and data with all actors  Quality assurance and control  Indicator Development: To monitor the Thematic Strategy with appropriate (decoupling-) indicators showing: the use of resources the environmental impact of resource use

9. Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 9 Integrated Product Policy, current situation  IPP has the aim to reduce the environmental impact of products and is therefore closely related to the work on Natural Resources and Waste  Knowledge on environmental impacts of products is scattered and neither collected nor made available systematically  Eurostat hosts data on production jrc sevilla intend=sive studies on ipp and trade of products  Indicators to monitor the effectiveness of IPP are not available and basic data still missing, studies on the development of indicators are ongoing (commissioned by DG Environment)

10. Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 10 Data Centre “Integrated Product Policy”  Detailed objectives of the IPP Data Centre will be defined after results of ongoing studies are available (2006)  Data Centre will be established within the Natural Resources Team (2007)  Eurostat will promote the use of Physical Input-Output tables (PIOTs)  Eurostat will closely cooperate with the JRC  The Production Statistics and Trade databases will be explored for the potential of identification of changes caused by IPP (PRODCOM and COMEXT)

11. Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 11 Streamlining of Environmental Indicators  Various sets of environmental indicators exist, some have the same name but show different things, others have different names but show the same.  The data centres shall coordinate the indicator work (between EEA Core Set, Structural Indicators, Sustainable Development Indicators, …)  Eurostat has the lead on the streamlining exercise:  Started November 2005  Identification of potential by Mid 2006  Integrated List of indicators by November 2006

12. Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 12 Quality Assurance / Quality Control  Data centres have essential role in providing final quality assurance on the data to be used for policy making  However, data providers have primary responsibility to ensure quality of their data  Eurostat will assure close collaboration among the data centres on data quality and will assist the other data centres in the application of the Quality Profile

13. Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 13 Eurostat has confirmed the “Technical Arrangement” on the division of roles by the Directors General of the four institutions (December 2005)  Eurostat: Waste, Natural Resources and Integrated Product Policy (IPP)  JRC: Soil and Forestry  EEA: Air, Climate Change, Water, Biodiversity and Land Use Environmental Data Centres

14. Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; Statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 14 Eurostat will in 2006 prepare a Communication to the European Parliament and to the Council on a Strategy for Environment Statistics “The Strategy will present a prioritised and staged programme of action for environmental statistics and accounts, to allow the necessary prioritisation in mid to long term in an area with a very rapid increase in the demand for data and indicators” Communication on Environment Statistics