Czech Statistical Office

Tourism and Environmental Statistics Unit.

Český statistický úřad
Špálova 2685/1
400 11 Ústí nad Labem
Czech Republic

The environmental goods and services sector (EGSS) accounts report on an economic sector that generates goods and services produced for environmental protection or the management of natural resources.

Products for environmental protection prevent, reduce and eliminate pollution or any other degradation of the environment. Examples are electric vehicles, catalysts and filters to decrease pollutant emissions, wastewater and waste treatment services, noise insulation works or restoration of degraded habitats.

Products for resource management safeguard the stock of natural resources against depletion. Examples are renewable energy production, energy-efficient and passive buildings, seawater desalinization or rainwater recovery, and materials recovery.

EGSS accounts provide data on output and export of environmental goods and services and on the value added of and employment in the environmental goods and services sector.

EGSS data are compiled following the statistical concepts and definitions set out in the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012 – Central Framework.

Data are reported cross-classified by 1) the type of environmental protection or resource management activity and 2) economic activity. Environmental protection activities are classified by environmental domain as set out in the Classification of Environmental Protection Activities - CEPA. Resource management activities are classified as set out in the Classification of Resource Management Activities - CReMA. see the revised CEPA and CReMA explanatory notes for detail. Economic activity is classified according to the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community, Rev. 2 (2008).

EGSS comprises a sector of the economy that produces goods and services aimed at environmental protection and resource management (see SEEA CF 2012 chapter 4). Environmental goods and services either reduce environmental pressures or help maintaining the stock of natural resources or they are designed to be cleaner and more resource efficient than conventional products. Environmental goods and services can be produced by corporations, households, governments and non-profit institutions. The list of environmental activities and products has been set out in the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2174 ('the indicative compendium of environmental goods and services').

EGSS has the same system boundaries as the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010) and consists of all environmental products within this production boundary. ESA defines production as the activity carried out under the control and responsibility of an institutional unit that uses input of labour, capital, goods and services to produce output of goods and services.

Only goods and services produced for environmental purposes are included in the scope of the environmental goods and services sector.

'Environmental purpose' means that a good or service helps either 1) preventing, reducing and eliminating pollution and any other degradation of the environment or 2) preserving and maintaining the stock of natural resources and hence safeguarding against depletion.

The EGSS statistics aim at compiling data for the following economic variables:

Output: consists of products that become available for use outside of the producer unit, any goods and services produced for own final use and goods that remain in the inventories at the end of the period in which they are produced. Apart from market output, output for own final use and non-market output, EGSS statistics also include ancillary output, comprising output intended for use within an enterprise.

Market output is to be valued at basic prices, that is, the prices receivable by the producer from the purchaser minus taxes and plus subsidies on products.
Output for own final use is to be valued at basic prices of similar products sold on the market or by the total costs of production.
Non-market output is to be estimated by the total costs of production.
Ancillary output is measured as a total of recurrent production costs (such as intermediate consumption, compensation of employees and consumption of fixed capital) incurred by enterprises to: 1) reduce environmental pressures arising from their production process or 2) produce environmental goods or services not intended for use outside the enterprise, but instead supporting other (non-environmental) activities undertaken within the enterprise (e.g. waste management services carried out in-house). For market producers, a mark-up for net operating surplus is added to the value of the EGSS ancillary output.
Gross Value Added: represents the contribution made by the production of environmental goods and services to GDP. It is the difference between the value of the output and intermediate consumption.

Employment: is measured in full-time equivalent jobs engaged in the production of output of environmental goods and services. Full-time equivalent is defined as total hours worked divided by the average annual working hours in a full-time job.

Exports: consist of sales, barter, gifts, or grants, of environmental goods and services from residents to non-residents.

Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 of 15 March 1993 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community describes the different statistical units of the production system.

The recommended statistical unit for the collection and compilation of EGSS statistics (excluding general government) is the establishment. For general government, the recommendation is to use institutional units and groupings of units as defined in the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010).

The statistical population is the national economy as defined in SEEA CF 2012 and the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010). It includes all economic activities undertaken by resident units.

Czechia

EGSS - 2014-2021

Not requested for this metadata collection.

Output, gross value added, and exports are measured in million units of national currency. Employment is measured in full time equivalents (i.e., full time equivalent jobs).

The reference period for EGSS data is the calendar year.

EGSS accounts are compiled and reported in accordance with Regulation (EU) No. 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts (EEEA).

The EEEA follow internationally agreed concepts and definitions set out in the SEEA Central Framework (2012), the international statistical standard adopted by the UN Statistical Commission. They present data in a way that is compatible with National Accounts (ESA, 2010).

Not applicable.

Confidential data are protected under the Act on Statistical State Service in Czechia.

Because EGSS compilation except ancillary activities is based on a mathematical model that uses predominantly published data, confidential data are not included in the EGSS tables. General rules for non confidential data: an aggregation of 3 or more entities, the share of the highest value does not exceed 85% of the total.

Ancillary activities are not compiled by the mentioned way. For ancillary activities are directly used results from the statistical survey and the confidentiality is flagged in accordance with the stated rule.

Data on environmental goods and services are published yearly on the CZSO web site as soon as possible after Eurostat´s checking (shortened version).

https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/environmental-accounts

Not applicable.

See point 8.1.

Ad-hoc release.

https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/environmental-accounts

No online database.

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No national documentation on methodology.

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No document describing the measures to assure the quality of the environmental goods and services data.

We do routine checks on totals according to CEPA / CReMA, output, exports, gross added value and employment according to the corresponding categories.

Initial input data are taken from administrative sources and results of process different statistical survey.

International organisations: Eurostat

Not applicable.

EGSS data are in compliance with the reporting obligation.

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The compilation of EGSS tables is based on simplifying assumptions, a mathematical model is applied to input data (e.g., the division of output by NACE is based on shares in the SUT). It is assumed that the NACE share on environmental CPA is the same as the NACE share on total production in SUT, but in reality, the environmental product does not have to be produced in this NACE.
In case that a product may be in a few CEPA / Crema, we apply the same shares (e.g., 711216). In case that a product may be in any CEPA / Crema, we assign the same shares to CEPA 9 and Crema 16 (e.g. CPA 749013).

EGSS accounts are compiled using a range of primary statistical sources. The sampling and non-sampling errors are described in the metadata of the underlying statistical data.

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EGSS accounts are compiled using a range of primary statistical sources. The sampling and non-sampling errors are described in the metadata of the underlying statistical data.

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T+21 months

T+21 months

T+46 months in compliance with NA updates

The data were delivered to Eurostat on October  31st. The reporting deadline for EGSS to Eurostat is 31 October.

10/2023 data deliveries to Eurostat, after Eurostat validation procces publication on national level.

Not aplicable.

Not requested for this metadata collection.

The indicative compendium was used only marginally.  Environmental products and activities presented in the compendium are mostly identical with description of environmental products and services in the file "2015 EGSS list of envi products.xlsx". The annex of the regulation presents only overview products and activities without link to classification CPA or PRODCOM. This annex does not have real usage for our work.          

Due to the wide range of items of IC for EGSS, it is not possible to list in detail the products and services that are not included in the report. In general, it can be stated, if a good or service does not have an accurate CPA or PRODCOM code, or we cannot obtain them from an administrative source, we are not able to provide it.

As an example we present:
Electric transport equipment is covered by only three prodcom codes and the other products developed in the Guidance note on electric transport equipment are unidentifiable to us.
Construction - the necessary details are not available, part is derived only from building permits.

Products which have not exact codes: Bio-plastic products, containers for waste management, protection against particle radiation, water management and protection of climate and ambient air, sacks and bags for replacing plastics bags, tubes and pipes for wastewater treatment plants as well as for water management...

No.

Newly provided "ancillary activities", see point 15.2.1

2014-2017 fully comparable

Newly prodived "ancillary activities" since 2018 - comparable time series 2018-2021

We assume the data for 2020 and 2021 will be updated in the next report in compliance with updates of national accounts data.

2014-2017 - "ancillary activities" not included

2018 - 2021 - "ancillary activities" included

There is a cooperation with national accounts experts to ensure all environmental goods and services are properly listed and classified.

Not applicable.

EGSS is fully coherent with national accounts data

Generally, we do not have any special survey on EGSS, compilation of EGSS is based on the results of other statistics, so EGSS results are in compliance with business, energy and agricultural and foreign trade statistics because in all cases EGSS data is a subset of above mentioned statistics.

From the reference year 2018, ancillary activities are newly included in the EGSS report. This activities are already comparable to the ancillary output in EPEA report. Minor deviations are due to confidential data. Described in point 18.5.2.

Generally, we do not have any special survey on EGSS, compilation of EGSS is based on the results of other statistics, so EGSS results are in compliance with business, energy and agricultural and foreign trade statistics because in all cases EGSS data is a subset of above mentioned statistics.

From the reference year 2018, ancillary activities are newly included in the EGSS report. This activities are already comparable to the ancillary output in EPEA report. Minor deviations are due to confidential data. Described in point 18.5.2.

Consistency of data sources is essential for data coherency. The primary data come just into the environmental output. GVA, employment and exports data are derived from this output using shares, formulas.

90 person days.

Data revisions are based on the annual updates of national accounts (NA) datasets and other statistics.

See points 17.2.1 and 17.2.2

2020
Updated dataset of Prům 2-01 (industry)
Updated dataset of P5-01 (crosscutting statistics)
Newly included "ancillary activities" for selected NACEs. This could have had a major effect on the totals output, GVA and employment for selected NACEs (see above, listed in point 18.5.2 as well)

2021
In 2021, there were overall production increases in various sectors. There may have been significant increases year-on-year. We assume a connection mainly with the gradual recovery of the economy after covid-19.

The increase of output in CEPA1
- NACE C29-30 caused by the increase of the output of goods with PRODCOM codes 2910241002 and 2910245002 in the automotive industry.
- NACE C26 - caused by the increase of the output of goods with PRODCOM 2651531302.

We can consider 2018 and 2019 as definitive if there are no further changes in the NA.

2020-2021 - In the next report, we anticipate changes that are based on updates to data sets in the NA

Used different data sources for different thematic areas of EGSS.

No.

Source data were obtained from the statistical surveys of the Czech Statistical Office:
1. Prům 2-01 (industry)
2. P5-01 (crosscutting statistics)
3. COFOG (general government data)
4. The statistical survey Les 8-01 (fuel wood)
5. The statistical survey Stav 7-99 (low energy consumption and passive buildings)

6. NA - SUT tables
               2018 - definitive dataset
               2019 - semidefinitive dataset
               2020 - semidefinitive dataset
               2021 - new dataset (preliminary)

7. NA - table on domestic production export by NACE and CPA
8. NA - total employment (full time equivalents) table by NACE
9. NA - gross value added
10. NA - export of domestic production
                2018 - definitive dataset
                2019 - definitive dataset
                2020 - definitive dataset
                2021 - definitive dataset

11. The statistical survey Stav 2-12 (building permits and building announcements, buildings and flats)
12. The statistical survey ŽP1-01 Annual report on environmental protection expenditure (ancillary activities)

No.

1. Statistical survey of Ministry of industry and trade (energy from renewable sources, biofuels)
2. FADN (The Farm Accountancy Data Network - organic agricultural products)

Data are collected annually.

Data  from outside organisation are provided via web sites given organisation. If the source data are not available we contact a resposible person in outside organisation.

We do routine checks on totals according to CEPA / CReMA, output, exports, gross added value and employment according to the corresponding categories.

The EGSS scope is determined according to "2015 EGSS list of envi products.xlsx". At present, EGSS scope is based on current knowledge and we are gradually analyzing the possibility of including other products from this list.

The scope of selected products is also updated due to changes in the nomenclature PRODCOM, if any occur in a given year.

If the "2015 EGSS list of envi products.xlsx" contains the CPA code that needs to be estimated, we try to find PRODCOM by name, which best matches the envi product description. If we find this PRODCOM, we consider it 100%.
- If the name does not entirely match the envi product description, then we analyze producers of this product (their website) and try to determine if they have envi production or not. Subsequently, we find the share of the production of designated environmental producers to total production in the given PRODCOM and this is determined share.

- If there is a large number of reporting entities and it is difficult to identify whether they have environmental production or not, we do not include this code.

We use the established shares only for the calculation of the envi production. The calculated envi production for each identified PRODCOM (CPA) is determined by its CEPA / CreMA according to the "2015 EGSS list of envi products.xlsx". We also recalculate this production to the NA and divide into NACE by NACE share of CPA 2-share (SUT).

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Output:
Essential data were obtained from statistical surveys of the Czech Statistical Office - Prům 2-01 (industry), data source - P5-01 (crosscutting statistics),COFOG (general government data), statistical survey of Ministry of industry and trade (energy from renewable sources, biofuels), FADN ( The Farm Accountancy Data Network - organic agricultural products ), the statistical survey Les 8-01 (fuel wood),  the statistical survey Stav 7-99. (low energy consumption and passive buildings),the statistical survey Stav 2-12 (building permits and building announcements, buildings and flats) . Data are modeled according to shares of NACE on output of CPA in SUT (NA).

GVA:
EGSS_GVA was calculated according to the formula:
EGSS_B1G CEPA/CReMA,NACE = EGSS_P1 CEPA/CReMA,NACE * (NA_B1G NACE/NA_P1 NACE)

Employment:
EGSS_FTE was calculated according to the formula from the Practical Guide, 2016 edition (draft September 2016):
EGSS_EmpCEPA/CReMA, NACE = EGSS_P1CEPA/CReMA, NACE * c-ratioNACE/ w-ratioNACE

EGSS_EmpCEPA/CReMA,NACE: Employment cross-classified by industries and environmental activities (EGSS)
EGSS_ P1CEPA/CReMA,NACE: Output cross-classified by industries and environmental activities (EGSS)
c-ratioNACE = NA_D1NACE / NA_P1NACE
w-ratioNACE = NA_D1NACE / FTENACE
NA_D1NACE : Compensation of employees by industries (NA)
NA_P1NACE : Output by industries (NA)
FTENACE : Employment by industries in full-time equivalents (NA)

Exports:
For the determination of export we use the table of environmental production and the table on export of domestic production (NA). First, we calculate the share of export of individual NACE on the total production of particular CPA (NA). These shares are then applied to environmental production by NACE and CPA.

Non market output, output for own-final use is reported only by government sector, data source are COFOG tables.

Ancillary activities:
Ancillary activities are based on the statistical survey ŽP1-01 (Annual report on environmental protection expenditure) and are newly provided:

- To report the Ancillary activities, we have newly used internal non-investment costs from the statistical survey ŽP1-01 Annual report on environmental protection expenditure.
- Internal non-investment costs can be considered as ancillary activities. They are classified only according to the CEPA classification. As a standard, internal non-investment costs are determined for NACEs: A, B, C, D, H, O.
- For EGSS purposes, NACE E is excluded from the report to avoid dabble counting.
- Due to the significant amount of confidential data in ancillary activities, we excluded values <1 mil NAC to be able to publish the data. The share of excluded values to the total ancillary activities is no more than 0.5%, which is negligible.

We use SUT tables.  Environmental production is allocated to individual NACEs according to NACE shares on CPA production (rows of supply table).

There are no available corresponding data sources for MEMO ITEM_CReMA 13B.

We use data from the statistical survey Stav 7-99 which provide information on the construction of low-energy consumption and passive buildings (this source corresponds to CREMA 13B only).

The energy class is given by Decree no. 364/2020 Coll. - A decree on the energy demandingness of buildings and the statistical survey Stav 7-99 directly identifies the building energy class.

The statistical questionnaire does not provide any other additional information about what the value of the building includes but we suppose that there is the whole value of the building.

 We are not able to provide a required detailed information for the reported time series and all 4 sheets (output, GVA, employment, export)."

Not aplicable.

Not requested for this metadata collection.