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Economic instruments in the
environmental accounts, chapter
5 and 6 in the SEEA manual
Environmental expenditure
Environmental taxes
Environmental subsidies
Permits to access the resources (e.g.
fishing and water rights) and emission
permits
Environmental Protection
Expenditure in industry
Definition of Environmental protection
Includes all measures and activities aiming to
prevent, reduce or eliminate environmental
pollution caused by activities of enterprises.
Excluded are measures that are aimed at products,
or natural resource management (including energy
management) and health and safety.
Environmental expenditure
Structural Business Statistics,
Council Regulation No 58/97
• evaluate the costs of complying with
environmental regulations
• improve the design and implementation of
environmental regulations
• Classification of Environmental Protection
Activities and Expenditure (CEPA)
Today
Environmental expenditure, OECD, Eurostat
Environmental taxes, OECD & Eurostat has
common definition
Environmental subsidies: different definitions,
work in progress
Environmental emissions trade, soon to
become a statistic source
Environmental taxes
● Identify taxes that came under the OECD and
EUROSTAT definition
“…it has been chosen to single out the tax bases
that seem to have a particular environmental relevance,
and to consider all taxes levied on these tax bases as
environmentally related regardless of the motives behind
their introduction, their names etc.”
● Allocate environmental taxes by industry
● Use the CEPA classification also for taxes?
Environmental taxes/ GDP in %
Definitions - subsidies
● Narrow definition in the SNA
not including e.g. investment subsidies
● Environmentally motivated subsidy
determined by the motive of the subsidy, according to OECD
Database
● Environmentally harmful subsidies
No harmonised definition
”Good” environmental subsidies
- effect with different definitions
SEK million
14000
12000
10000
8000
6000
4000
2000
0
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
Environmental subsidies for public transportation and railways
Environmentally motivated investment subsidies
Environmentally motivated SNA-subsidies, from the national accounts
Suggested timeline and process
• To collect new experiences at this London group meeting.
• To collect experience of the ESS community.
• To formulate a draft text on relevant topics and send it out
to the London group in October.
• To invite the two working groups "Environmental
Accounts" and "Environmental Expenditure Statistics" of
Eurostat for further discussions on the draft text in May
2007.
• To have a suggested text ready in September 2007.
Future work
● Suggestion:
That OECD, Eurostat and some interested countries work together on
filling the economic instruments database at OECD/EEA with data
disaggregated by industry.
http://www2.oecd.org/ecoinst/queries/index.htm
That we work together on definitions.
That the emissions and energy data can easily be available for analysts
so that the efficiency of the instruments can be assessed.