Environmental Protection Expenditure Accounts Handbook — 2017 edition

Environmental protection expenditure statistics quantify the resources devoted to the environmental protection by resident economic units. This information supports understanding the response of society to the challenge of environmental degradation and depletion of natural resources, and the potential for economic activity to be based on environmentally friendly activities. This handbook is meant as a reference tool for data producers as regards data collection, compilation and reporting of environmental protection expenditure accounts to Eurostat. It updates the previous manuals and handbooks published by Eurostat on the subject.