• System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012, Central Framework
• System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012 — Applications and Extensions
• System of Environmental-Economic Accounting — Ecosystem Accounting 2021
• European Strategy for Environmental Accounts 2019 - 2023
• Mid-term review of the European Strategy for Environmental Accounts 2019-2023

Eurostat offers grants to carry out methodological work and data collection beyond the scope of the EU regulation 691/2011 on environmental accounts. The results of these grants are available in the catalogue of pilot study reports.

Annual air emissions accounts

• Air emissions accounts questionnaire 2022 (ver. 19 May 2022)
• Validation rules for air emissions accounts 2022
• Short AEA guidelines on residence adjustments for water and air transport (visual schemes) 2021
• Technical Note EEEA/2017/01: Allocating emissions of fluorinated gases to NACE industries in air emissions accounts
• Technical note (2016/01): Assigning air emissions and energy use to NACE L68 'Real estate activities'
• Manual for air emissions accounts, 2015 edition
• Annex I (Correspondence between CRF/NFR - NACE Rev. 2) to Manual for Air Emissions Accounts (2015 edition)
• Correspondence between SNAP97 - CRF/NFR - NACE rev.2), 2012 edition

Quarterly air emissions accounts

• Methodological note on quarterly GHG estimates, January 2023

Input-output modelling and tools - air emissions

• Consumption-based accounting tool – March 2022
• Creating consolidated and aggregated EU27 Supply, Use and Input- Output Tables, adding environmental extensions (air emissions), and conducting Leontief- type modelling to approximate carbon and other 'footprints' of EU27 consumption for 2000 to 2006
• Decomposition analysis of carbon dioxide-emission changes in Germany - Conceptual framework and empirical results, 2003
• Methodological note on FIGARO - CO2 estimates – December 2022

• EW-MFA validation rules 2023
• Economy-wide Material Flow Accounts (EW-MFA), Handbook 2018 edition
• How to compile DPO and Balancing items - 13Sept2016 draft
• Economy- wide material flow accounts and derived indicators - A methodological guide, 2001 edition
• Technical note EEEA/2017/02: Further clarifying the conceptual treatment of physical imports and exports in economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA)
• Economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA) 2023 questionnaire
• Economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA) - annexes of the 2023 questionnaire

Input-output modelling and tools - raw material equivalents

• Country RME tool – October 2022
• Handbook country RME tool – January 2023
• Input data country RME tool – October 2022
• Documentation of the EU RME model – October 2022
• Eurostat EEEA technical note (2018) - Secondary materials in European MFA-RME
• Disaggregating input-output tables for the calculation of raw material footprints

• PEFA tools - update 11 May 2022
• Video tutorial explaining the use of the PEFA builder (V 5.6), part 1
• Video tutorial explaining the use of the PEFA builder (V 5.6), part 2
• Installation instructions for the video tutorial (V 5.6)
• Physical energy flow accounts (PEFA) questionnaire 2022
• PEFA quality report template 2022
• Summary PEFA quality reports 2021
• Validation rules for physical energy flow accounts (PEFA)
• Short PEFA guidelines on residence adjustments for water and air transport (visual schemes) 2021
• PEFA guidelines for data collection 2018
• PEFA guidelines for data collection 2017
• Technical note (2016/01): Assigning air emissions and energy use to NACE L68 'Real estate activities'
• Physical Energy Flow Accounts (PEFA) Manual 2014
• Defining PEFA bridging items vis-a-vis to energy statistics (Technical note 2019)
• Recording of 'intra-establishment energy flows' in physical energy flow accounts (Technical note 2019)
• Technical note (2016/01): Assigning air emissions and energy use to NACE L68 'Real estate activities'

Air emissions

• Consumption-based accounting tool – March 2022
• Creating consolidated and aggregated EU27 Supply, Use and Input- Output Tables, adding environmental extensions (air emissions), and conducting Leontief- type modelling to approximate carbon and other 'footprints' of EU27 consumption for 2000 to 2006
• Decomposition analysis of carbon dioxide-emission changes in Germany - Conceptual framework and empirical results, 2003
• Methodological note on FIGARO - CO2 estimates – December 2022

Raw material equivalents

• Country RME tool – October 2022
• Handbook country RME tool – January 2023
• Input data country RME tool – October 2022
• Documentation of the EU RME model – October 2022
• Eurostat EEEA technical note (2018) - Secondary materials in European MFA-RME
• Disaggregating input-output tables for the calculation of raw material footprints

• Guidance note on electric transport equipment - technical note (2020)
• Guidance note on energy efficient buildings - technical note (2020)
• CEPA and CReMA explanatory notes - technical note (2020)

Environmental taxes

• Environmental taxes by economic activities questionnaire 2023
• Environmental taxes - A statistical guide, 2013 edition

Environmental subsidies and other transfers

• Environmental subsidies and similar transfers questionnaire 2022
• Environmental subsidies and similar transfers - Guidelines, 2015 edition

Potential environmentally damaging subsidies

• Potential environmentally damaging subsidies (PEDS) questionnaire 2022
• Guidance material for PEDS compilation – draft December 2022

• Environmental protection expenditure accounts questionnaire 2022
• Environmental protection expenditure accounts - Handbook, 2017 edition

• Resource management expenditure accounts – tables 2014
• Resource management expenditure accounts –draft guidelines 2014 [draft under review – please see disclaimer on the first page]

• EGSS data collection questionnaire - 2022
• Handbook on Environmental Goods and Service Sector, 2016
• Practical guide on Environmental Goods and Services Sector accounts, 2016
• EGSS list of environmental products based on CPA and CN – 2015 (V. June 2016)
• EGSS quality reports by national data compilers

• Environmental website on Waste

• Data Collection Manual for the OECD/Eurostat Joint Questionnaire on Inland Waters - version 4.1, 2021
• Manual for Physical Water Flow Accounts - draft version, 18 Nov 2014
• Water accounts - results of pilot studies

• A best practice guide for wild bird monitoring schemes

• Accounting for ecosystems and their services in the European Union (INCA) — 2021 edition (final report from phase II of the INCA project)

Methodological handbooks

• Final draft of the revised System of Environmental-Economic Accounting —Ecosystem Accounting as presented to the UN Statistical Commission in March 2021
• System of Environmental- Economic Accounting 2012, Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EEA)
• Technical recommendations in support of the SEEA EEA 2019

Technical reports

• Pilot aggregated EU ecosystem services accounts, and appendices
• JRC Technical report - Implementing an EU system of accounting for ecosystems and their services
• JRC Technical Report: Ecosystem services accounting - Part I. Outdoor recreation and crop pollination
• JRC Technical Report: Ecosystem services accounting - Part II. Pilot accounts for crop and timber provision, global climate regulation and flood control
• EEA Report: Natural capital accounting in support of policymaking in Europe – A review based on EEA ecosystem accounting work
• MAES Technical Report: An analytical framework for mapping and assessment of ecosystem condition in the EU
• Linking accounts for ecosystem services and benefits to the economy through bridging (LISBETH)

Scientific articles

• JRC (et al.): Sustainability assessment and causality nexus through ecosystem service accounting: The case of water purification in Europe
• JRC (et al.): Physical and monetary ecosystem service accounts for Europe: A case study for in-stream nitrogen retention
• JRC (et al.): The role of enabling actors in ecosystem service accounting
• JRC (et al.): How ecosystem services are changing: an accounting application at the EU level
• JRC (et al.): Accounting for changes in flood control delivered by ecosystems at the EU level

Background reading and further links

• Natural Capital Accounting: Overview and Progress in the European Union
• KIP-INCA Phase 1 report
• CICES - Common classification of ecosystem services
• DG Environment - Natural Capital Accounting
• National work in the Netherlands

• European Forest Accounts (EFA) questionnaire
• EFA validation rules and checks (v. June 2022)
• EFA Explanatory notes (v. June 2021)
• Gapfilling EFA timber stocks and flows using Carbon Budget Model
• The European Framework for Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting for Forests - IEEAF
• The European Framework for Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting for Forests - Pilot Studies
• Valuation of European forests - Results of IEEAF test applications; 2000
• Manual on the economic accounts for Agriculture and Forestry EEA/EAF 97, Rev. 1.1
• Natural resource accounts for forests - 1999 data; 2002
• Accounts for recreational and environmental functions of forests - Results of pilot applications; 2002
• The specific account of forestry and logging in France
• Other reference documents

• The REACH baseline study – A tool to monitor the new EU policy on chemicals - REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of Chemicals) (June 2009)
• The REACH baseline study – 5 years update – Comprehensive study report (Sept. 2012)
• The REACH baseline study – 5 years update – Summary (Sept. 2012)
• Chemicals - monitoring REACH with indicators (2012)
• Compilation of chemical indicators — Development, revision and additional analyses (2016)

• Natural resource accounts for oil and gas - 1980- 2000; 2002
• Accounts for subsoil assets - Results of pilot studies in European countries; 2000
• Valuation of oil and gas reserves in the Netherlands (241.4KB)