Expenditure on protection and restoration of the environment

National statistical institute

"Environmental and Energy Account" Department

Zorka Borisova

State Expert

2 Panayot Volov St., 1038 Sofia

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 108

Provision of information from firms, firm establishments, municipal administrations, scientific institutes, foundations, ministries and other organizations and departments which during the year under review have spent expenditure on protection and restoration of the environment. Included here is the expenditure on acquisition as well as the expenditure on maintenance of the tangible fixed assets with ecological use allocated by direction of ecological use (water, air, waste, etc.).

· Classification of environmental protection activities (CEPA)- a common classification of environmental protection activities which has been adopted by UN and European statisticians and accountants in 1994 and replaced in 2000 by an improved version (CEPA 2000);

· Nomenclature of environmental protection equipment.

Included are the economic subjects from all economic sectors, which have spent environmental protection expenditure.

Specialized equipment for the environment (end-of-pipe) - includes facilities which are not involved in the production process and serve only to reduce pollution resulting from production.

Integrated technologies - elements of the production process/technologies, which resulted in achieving less environmental pollution compared to other similar technologies.

Economic units that have spent funds for new construction, reconstruction, maintenance and operation of tangible and intangible fixed assets and activities on the environment.

All economic units that have expended funds for the acquisition and maintenance of tangible and intangible fixed assets with ecological use.

The data for enterprises and the number of employed persons from the Statistical Business Register for the period t-2 were used to form the general population, from which the study "Expenditures for protection and restoration of the environment" is sampled. For the study of the group, two approaches are combined - exhaustive and sampling. Comprehensive monitoring applies to a group of enterprises that are previously known to have environmental expenditure, and where the industry group surveyed contains too few enterprises to be sampled.

By regulation, data are reported by economic activity group. For each sample, a simple random sample is emitted.

Based on the sampling survey, estimates are calculated for the enterprise's arithmetic mean for the sampled population. In order to obtain an estimate of the aggregate, the arithmetic mean is multiplied by the number of enterprises.

Total for the country and by districts - 2000-2013. Begining 2014 only total for the country.

2017 - 2021

Not applicable.

Thousand BGN

Year

Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts.

Regulation 295/2008 EC on Structural Business Statistics (SBS).

Data is provided to Eurostat.

· Law on Statistics;

· Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.

Individual data are not published in accordance with article 25 of the Law on Statistics. The publishing of individual data can be performed only in accordance with article 26 of the same law.

The date of release of statistical information is indicated in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute.

The calendar is available on the NSI website: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

Data on Expenditure on protection and restoration of the environment is published on the NSI website, section Environment in accordance with the Law on Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice respecting the professional independence and aimed at objectivity, transparency and equal treatment of all consumers.

Yearly

Annual press release

· Electronic Publication "Environment";

· Statistical Yearbook;

· Statistical Reference Book;

· "Bulgaria" (brochure).

Data on Expenditure on protection and restoration of the environment are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Environment: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/5112

Anonymised individual data can be provide for scientific and research purposes, and for individual request according to the Rules for the provision of anonymised individual data for scientific and research purposes.

Information service on request, according to the Rules for the dissemination of statistical products and services in NSI.

Based on statistical methodology of NSI, in accordance with the requirements of Accountancy Law and the National Accounting Standards in Bulgaria.

The methodology is updated and consistent with the latest requirements of the European institutions - Eurostat (Statistical Office of the EU). 

Not available.

· European Statistics Code of Practice;

· A common framework for quality management in the National Statistical System.

Main users of survey's statistical information are the state and municipal entities, associations, companies and citizens.

No information. Survey about satisfaction of customers has not been conducted.

According to Regulation 691/2011, all available statistics data are reported. In 2019, progress is being made to ensure the completeness of the missing data. Possibilities for obtaining information for missing statistical indicators are being explored.

Overall accuracy is related to data quality. For this purpose , additional analyzes and checks are performed on all economic units that are suspected of having incorrect units of measurement, incorectly indicators and others.

As the sample size depends on the available resources and not on the pre-set accuracy when conducting the study, the calculation of stochastic errors is not part of the usual procedure accompanying data processing.

Not estimate.

The data is published according to the terms laid down in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute.

All publications are prepared timely, according to the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute.

Due to the unity of principles, variables, definitions and classifications used there is a high degree of comparability between EU Member States with regard to the survey's results.

Time series are available since 2017.

Not applicable.

The data are according whith the annual data for municipal waste tax from the Business Statistics Information System.

 In 2021 in relation with the reduction of respondents burden, an electronic version of the questionnaire was introduced through ISSOS.

Revision of the data is applied if necessary.

Revision of the data is applied if necessary.

Expenditure on protection and restoration of the environment are included economic subjects (companies, organizations, ministries, municipal administrations and others) who have spent funds on protection and restoration of the environment.For the study of the group, two approaches are combined - exhaustive and sampling. Comprehensive monitoring applies to a group of enterprises that are previously known to have environmental expenditure, and where the industry group surveyed contains too few enterprises to be sampled.>

Yearly

The main source of data is a statistical questionnaire on the expenditure for protection and restoration of the environment. The questionnaire is collected by correspondence on electronic and paper format. 

Comparing the data with those reported in the previous year for incorrect measure units and incorrect data by use for environment.

Dataset containing all the units in the terrritory of the country.

Not applicable.