Statistics Poland

Agriculture and Environment Department

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. Economic activity is classified according to the NACE Rev. 2 (2008).

EGSS comprises a sector of the economy that produces goods and services aimed at environmental protection and resource management. 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.

Poland

Data transmitted for 2021.

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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).

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The legal base concerning issues related to statistical confidentiality is Law on Public Statistics from 29 June 1995, with later amendments. Internal Policy no. 32 of the President of Statistics Poland from 4 December 2020 covers instructions how to preserve statistical confidentiality.

According to Internal Policy no. 32 of the President of Statistics Poland it shall not be allowed to publish statistical data which can be related to, and used to identify, a specific natural person, or any statistical information and data characterising economic and financial results of entities of the national economy conducting business activity, if a given aggregation comprises less than three entities, or the share of a given entity in a certain compilation is higher than three-fourths of the whole. All recommendations are always applied.

The website and statistical data bases are the most important forms of sharing the statistical results. Statistics Poland publishes statistical data significant to the national strategies, plans and other documents, which also answer the needs of the ordinary users. Statistics Poland in years 2016-2018 (December) published, on Statistics Poland’s website, information note (in Polish) titled “Rachunki ekonomiczne środowiska” (“Environmental economic accounts”) containing information about AEA, MFA and TAXES.

https://stat.gov.pl/obszary-tematyczne/srodowisko-energia/srodowisko/rachunki-ekonomiczne-srodowiska,7,3.html

Since 2019 Statistics Poland has published above mentioned information in publication "Economics aspects of environmental protection” and beginning from 2023 (December) Statistics Poland will publish a revised  publication "Economics aspects of environmental protection” which will add information about EPEA and EGSS data.

https://stat.gov.pl/en/topics/environment-energy/environment/economic-aspects-of-environmental-protection-2022,4,4.html

Actual and archive release schedules are available at the Statistics Poland website.

https://stat.gov.pl/en/questions-and-orders/editorial-title-plan-of-the-statisics-poland-and-rso/

More detailed information are available upon request from interested users. The users have access to The Release Schedule prepared for a given year. Statistics Poland handles orders for statistical data, and it forwards applications to the relevant departments. The request is analysed, the scope of data verified in terms of compliance with statistical confidentiality.

The frequency, scope and form of data publication is determined by the Statistical Survey Programme of Official Statistics (PBSSP) which is consulted with the users. The PBSSP is approved every year by the Council of Minister.

From 2023 the data will be disseminated in the annual publication (pdf and Excel format).

From 2023 the data will be disseminated in the annual publication “Economic aspects of environmental protection”.

From 2023 the data will be disseminated in the annual publication “Economic aspects of environmental protection” (also Excel format).

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Some of aggregated data on generated goods and services produced for environmental protection or the management of natural resources will be disseminated in the annual publication of the Statistics Poland called “Economic aspects of environmental protection”.

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The compilation methodology of EGSS was developed under the project European Environmental Economic Accounts: Module for EGSS, carried out within the grant agreement no.  05121.2013.003-2013.344.

https://circabc.europa.eu/sd/a/04eebcb0-9f70-4d77-81ec-54fdee0652df/PL-EGSS-05121.2013.003-2013.344.pdf

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Any additional national descriptions of the measures to assure the quality have not been elaborated yet. Generally the statistical products are monitored based on the procedures contained in the Internal Policy no 35 of the President of Statistics Poland from 28 December 2011. The quality reports, quality measures, control lists, quality reviews exist there.

A detailed general description of the standard quality reviews is quoted from the Vademecum of Quality in Official Statistics. The priorities for the assessment of quality process can be determined at the stage of planning of the quality review for each individual survey, including its specificity and current needs. Generally the statistical products are monitored based on the procedures contained in the Internal Policy no 35 of the President of Statistics Poland from 28 December 2011. The quality reports, quality measures, control lists, quality reviews exist there.

Data collection process is programmed in the way that collected data should be of the appropriate accuracy (which is possible to achieve for reporting units, but at the same time resulting from legal regulations and corresponding to the users’ needs). Statistics Poland makes every effort to ensure that statistical data are not affected by errors, especially resulting from factual issues.

Statistics Poland takes into account the needs of users by initiating new publications as well as by raising and development of employees competences.

The data included in the EGSS are sufficient.

The data is complete.

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All possible data is being transmitted.

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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2 years (n-2)

22 months.

2 years.

The data were delivered to Eurostat on 30/10/2023. The reporting deadline for EGSS to Eurostat is 31 October. 

Every data is transmitted and published on time.

All statistics are comparable between geographical areas.

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Lead containers for radioactive waste – Poland does not have a significant nuclear industry, the production is negligible.

Coal that meets the criteria of sustainable development - During data collection the production values of "coal" and "coal that meets the criteria of sustainable development" are not distinguished.

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All statistics are comparable over time.

Length of comparable time series since 2014.

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To ensure coherence between EGSS and EPEA  the same data source to quantify all four parameters in EGSS are used. There are no procedures in place to ensure coherence of EGSS data with macroeconomic statistics (National Accounts data: SUT, COFOG, BoP).

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To ensure coherence between EGSS and EPEA  the same data source to quantify all four parameters in EGSS are used.  

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Due to the methodology being still worked on, the data is reviewed during each transmission if changes to methodology occur.

See point 17.1

All reporting years.

The transmitted data is final.

National accounts data, SBS, EPEA, Statistics Poland’s own surveys concerning the current environmental protection and water management expenditure in the entities from relevant classification section NACE Rev. 2., agriculture statistics, estimations based on surveys and publications of Statistics Poland.

Detail: Report and the methodology description within the grant agreement no. 05121.2013.003-2013.344.

Environmental Protection Expenditure Accounts

Data from National Accounts are used to calculate for example, the value of coefficient used to describe value of market output of EGSS investment goods. And the value of export, in most cases, is imported directly from National Accounts.

The survey concerns the current environmental protection and water management expenditure in the entities from relevant classification section NACE Rev. 2.

Agriculture statistical data are used to calculate for example: value of output of organic farming.

Due to the lack of specific datasets regarding NZEB’s, the data has been estimated on the basis of construction and assembly production carried out in Poland. 

Annually.

Annually.

The quality of the EGSS data are ensured by verifying the quality of data at all levels of statistical production.

See point 18.5.2., 18.5.3 and 18.5.4.

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Output - The data used come from a wide variety of sources, including administrative sources, National Accounts, structural business statistics, business register, foreign trade statistics, agricultural statistics and Statistic’s Poland survey on current cost on environmental protection and water management in entities from the relevant section of NACE Rev. 2.

Market output is constituted by goods and services sold or intended for sale on the market. It includes:

• sold products at economically reasonable prices,

• transferred products by way of barter exchange,

• payment used as payment in kind,

• products supplied by one local kind-of-activity unit (local KAU) to another for intermediate consumption or satisfying final demand,

• products added to inventory of ready-made products and unfinished output meant for use in at least one case mentioned above (including live inventory and vegetable products being in the phase of growth and unfinished buildings the buyer of which remains unknown).

In order to estimate the market output, sales revenue is used.

Non-market output includes goods and services transferred to other institutional units free-of-charge or at prices which are not economically justified. The remaining non-market output includes: payments for the remaining non-market outputs – non-market output sold at economically unjustified prices, covering only some output costs and remaining non-market output covering output which is delivered free-of-charge. Non-market output is evaluated on the basis of incurred costs.

Additionally, on the basis of goods and services related to environmental protection, in section F of Statistic’s Poland own survey, the percentage of construction production and assembly related to environmental protection was estimated. Subsequently, it was assumed that the value of CReMA 13B will be estimated using that percentage as a part of construction and assembly production related to the implementation of electrical, plumbing and other building installations. We found that those installation’s categories values are the most related to constructions of NZEB’s, as we assumed that the majority of production value related to NZEB’s will be tied to specialized home installations.

Gross Value Added – A model recommended by Eurostat in which gross value added is proportional to the value of output is used.

Exports - In the case when 100% of the size of output is classified from environmental goods and services, value of exports is directly taken from national accounts. In Poland it is possible to use data concerning foreign trade turnover and it is necessary to use merged nomenclature CN.

In the case of products some of which belong to EGSS it is necessary to decide which shares may be attributed to environmental protection and resource management. It is possible to use equal coefficients as in the case of market output, however – if there exist other credible sources of information it is necessary to adjust appropriate coefficients.

Employment - In case of auxiliary output we use data collected under EPEA. These are, however, data concerning only CEPA and CReMA10  domains (expenses on water management are collected in Poland both during the survey of investment outlays and current costs). Employment to particular CEPA and CREMA10 domains is assigned in proportion to the structure of the value of auxiliary output.

Collected under EPEA information in section E (NACE 36-39) are related to employment refer to market output of environmental services. 

In section O (NACE 84) data concerning employment are also adopted from EPEA accounts and division was made between CEPA and CREMA10 domains in proportion to non-market output.

In the case of market output in other types of activities than section E and section O we use Eurostat proposals from Practical guide. The source of data on the share of wages in the value of output and the size of employment in different NACE groups is SBS statistics.

Approach based on the classification of the producer of EGSS goods and activities is used.

Due to lack of specific datasets we are using one of the recommended methods, that is assuming that 13B Memo for NACE F is equal to 20%.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/1798247/12177560/Guidance+note+on+energy+efficient+buildings+-+technical+note.pdf/8ab3d765-b6b7-a8b4-bef3-5ef2d5c1d145?t=1609859263907

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