The priority areas recommended for establishing
harmonized reports are:
- atmospheric emissions and energy accounts
- Water flow accounts (water supply and use)
- material flow accounts of the economy
- environmental taxation
- Forestry accounts (work wood)
- Subsoil asset accounts (Oil and Gas)
The development of these accounts is made on
modules, in terms of keeping the integrity of such
elements.
Accounts can serve as a framework for obtaining
short-term forecasts and indicators on sustainable
development.
8.1. Priorities for tracking development
It is essential to follow the development in other
areas of environmental accounting. The Member States
have proposed three types of experimental accounts
concerning: development on a short-term, middle-term
and long –term. Considering the political request on
information and the estimated costs, it is proposed the
following classification:
• Areas for a short term development and for an
experimental application in EU states.
- Waste accounts
- Soil accounts
- Water quality accounts
- Accounts on water emission
- Accounts concerning the use of feedstock
• Areas for a middle term development and for an
experimental application in EU states.
- Soil accounts
- accounts of fisheries and fish
- Water quality accounts
- resource management expenditure (for water)
- Economic instruments (grants)
• Areas for a long term development and for an
experimental application in EU
- environmental and recreational functions of
forests
- ecosystems accounts
- accounts of specific substances
- Other management expenditure of resources
- economic instruments
- expenses related to natural and economic
disasters