Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation of Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts

Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2011 on European environmental economic accounts introduced a common framework for the collection, compilation, transmission and evaluation of European environmental economic accounts.

Article 10 of the Regulation stipulates that by 31 December 2013 and every 3 years thereafter, the Commission shall submit a report on the implementation of this Regulation to the European Parliament and the Council. The report shall evaluate in particular the quality of the data transmitted, the data collection methods, the administrative burden on the Member States and on the respondent units, as well as the feasibility and effectiveness of those statistics.

The first report prepared under this Article was published in 2013. This second report provides an overview of environmental economic accounts, reports on the developments that have taken place since the last report and discusses the measures taken to improve the implementation of the Regulation.