romania – national institute of statistics 15-17 june 2005, vienna material flow accounts material...

Romania – National Institute of Statistics15-17 June 2005, Vienna

Material flow accountsMaterial flow accounts(MFA)

Constantin Mindricelu Martinov Danaproject manager counselor

Department of Forestry and Environment Statistics


General overviewGeneral overview

Environmental accounting (EA) in Romania:

- to assess the integrated environment - economy

policies;

- to develop the sustainable development indicators

system;

- to comply with EU standards and requests the

environmental statistics.


Institutional responsibilities on EAInstitutional responsibilities on EA

Legal base:

- Accession chapter 12 – Statistics;

-The cooperation protocol between the National Institute of

Statistics and the Ministry of Environment and Water

Management to develop the environmental statistics in Romania,

establishing working groups also for environmental accounting,

from which are part:

- the National Institute of Statistics;

- the Ministry of Environment and Water Management;

- the National Agency for Environment Protection.


Phare project:

- the institution responsible for the implementation is the National Institute of Statistics

- the project manager, within the National Institute of Statistics is Mr. Constantin Mindricelu

Institutional responsibilities on MFAInstitutional responsibilities on MFA


Project objectives (1)Project objectives (1)

1. to analyze the policies and problems of environmental data integration into the economical analysis;

2. to clarify the relations between different statistics in order to harmonize the information necessary to compute the MFA;

3. to define the methodological aspects and practical suggestions for the data collection and process, including: definitions, classifications and concepts, the standards and conventions used to express the units of measure;

4. to make recommendations on the accounts types which are priorities for implementation;


5. to analyze data sources and methods to collect data;

6. to develop a national methodology to compute on regular

bases the MFA;

7. to make a pilot collection of the data which emphases the

material flows from environment to the economy and from

economy to the environment;

8. data processing and elaboration of the indicators based on

the established methodology and their provision to Eurostat.

Project objectives (2)Project objectives (2)


Current status (1)Current status (1)

The activities were developed as follows:

a) Study of the methodologies recommended by Eurostat and other EU institutions:

- Eurostat methodology „Economy – wide material flow accounts and derived indicators – a methodological guide 2001”;

- the project „1980 - 1998 Material – Input – Based Indicators Time Series” developed by ISTAT Italy in 2003;

- the report for the project „Development of material use in the EU-15: 1970 - 2001, developed by IFF-Social Ecology Vienna in 2004.


b) Definition of the informational requests (discussions with the experts from the Ministry of Environment and Water Management, the National Agency of Environment Protection to identify the data requests and the data collected until now).




c) Identification of the potential data sources:

- analyzes with the responsibles for foreign trade statistics, industrial

statistics, agricultural statistics from the National Institute of Statistics to

establish the efficiency to use this statistics;

- analyzes with the experts from the Ministry of Environment and

Water Management, the National Agency of Environment Protection and the

National Research and Development Institute for Environment Protection which

compute the National Inventories of Air Emissions IPCC and CORINAIR;

- analyzes with the experts from the Ministry of Environment and

Water Management, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Rural

Development and the Ministry of Economy and Commerce regarding several

administrative data sources.



d) Data collection – currently on progress

e) Design of the IT application – currently on

progress


Data sources (1)Data sources (1)

Data sources for material inputs

Used domestic extraction

- Fossil fuels - the data base from energy statistics;

- Minerals (metal ores, non – ferrous metal ores, construction minerals) - the data base from industry statistics;

- Biomass

Agriculture (main vegetable agricultural productionmain vegetable agricultural production) - the statistical research on vegetables production.

The total secondary productionThe total secondary production - estimation procedures based on the coefficients established for the Agricultural Economic Accounts.

The grass grazed on permanent pastures and other lands, including alpines The grass grazed on permanent pastures and other lands, including alpines pasturespastures – estimation procedure based on data from agricultural statistics, as follows: the number of herbivores and coefficients representing the quantity of grass grazed daily by an animal and the number of days from a year representing the graze period.


Forestry production - results of statistical researches for the national

forestry fund and forestry production (the volume of timber felled - round wood

and non – wood products gathered in the forests)

The volume of raw materials from forestry is reported in cubic meters.

To convert the cubic meters in weight units were used the following coefficients:

0.75 tone / mc for coniferous and 0.85 tone / mc for non – coniferous.

Fishing resources - marine fish and fresh water fish - administrative

data from the Agricultural, Forestry and Rural Development Ministry.

Hunting resources - collected by forestry units - statistical researches

on forestry production (Agricultural, Forestry and Rural Development Ministry).

Other activities (honey, gathering of mushrooms etc) - the harvested

quantities of mushrooms, honey and other non – wood products - statistical

researches on forestry production.



Import and export - the official foreign trade statistics, which

takes the data from the National Customs Authority (NCA).

Indirect flows associated to imports and exports:

Agricultural products - coefficients for the

transformation of alimentary products into raw materials

(for example the transformation of bread in wheat) from

the Food Balance Methodology, NIS.




Data sources for material output

Emission to air (CO2, SO2, NOx (as NO2), NMVOC, CH4, CO, PM, N2O, NH3) - CORINAIR and IPCC national emission inventories.

Wastes landfilled - administrative data on the landfilled waste from the Ministry of Environment and Water Management. Starting with 2003 the data for the quantities of landfilled wastes are collected through the Statistical survey on generation, collection, transportation, recovery, recycling and landfill of wastes, designed according with the 2150/2002 Regulation on waste statistics.

Emissions to water (O2, suspended solids, total N, Cd, Cu, Cr, Ni, Pb, Zn and for total P) - administrative data at the National Administration of Romanian Waters.



Dissipative use of products

The chemical fertilizers applied on the agricultural lands (nitrogenous, phosphates, potassium) - the agricultural statistics data base.

The natural fertilizers - statistical researches on animal and vegetables sectors.

The pesticides (herbicides, fungicides and insecticides - as active weight) - the agricultural statistics data base.

In the “other dissipative uses” were included only the data on solvents use - the CORINAIR National Inventory, for the following SNAP97 (Selected Nomenclature for sources of Air Pollution) processes:

0601 Paint application

0602 Degreasing, dry cleaning and electronics

0603 Chemical products manufacturing or processing

0604 Other use of solvents and related activities


Data Data sourcessources (6) (6)

Memorandum items for balancing for inputOxygen and nitrogen for combustions

To compute the necessary oxygen quantities consumed during the combustion of fuels the following sthoechiometric equation was used:

VO2 =1.864*CC + 0.7*CS +5.553*CH - 0.7*CO2

Where:VO2 = volume of oxygen necessary for a sthoechiometric reaction (m3/kg);CC = carbon content of the fuel (Kg/Kg);CS = sulphur content of the fuel (Kg/Kg);CH = hydrogen content of the fuel (Kg/Kg);CO2 = oxygen content of the fuel (Kg/Kg);Equation constants = sthoechiometric factors (oxygen necessary for the combustion of a kg of carbon, sulphur or hydrogen).

Source: CORINAIR Emission Inventory Guidebook, 2003

To compute the nitrogen consumed the combustion of fuels the chemical equilibrium equation was used.



Memorandum items for balancing for input

Oxygen for human and livestock respiration

Humans - estimated with the help of the experts from the Institute of Labor Medicine and the Public Health Institute.

Animals - estimated based on an average coefficient of around 5 tone of air per ton of live weight of livestock, according with the Italian report “1980-1998 Material-Input-Based Indicators Time Series and 1997 Material Balance of the Italian Economy”.

Water consumption for livestock

Water consumption by livestock will be estimated based on the number of animals and coefficients obtained through National PHARE Programme 2001 – „Compliance of Romanian Statistics with European Statistical System”, “Water statistics” component.


Memorandum items for balancing for outputWater vapors from combustion

The data sources are the Romanian National Energy Balance for fossil fuels and the Ministry of Environment and Water Management for the water and H2 content of each energy product.

Respiration of humans and livestockHumans (CO2 and water vapor) - estimated with the help of the

experts from the Institute of Labor Medicine and the Public Health Institute.

Animals - estimated based on an average coefficient of around 7 tons CO2 and 8 tons H2O per ton of live weight of livestock according with “1980-1998 Material-Input-Based Indicators Time Series and 1997 Material Balance of the Italian Economy”.



Stock of infrastructure and buildings can be estimated based on the main construction materials: sand, natural stones, steel and other metals, from the PRODROM survey.

The quantities of material stocked (net accumulation) could be estimated based on the data obtain from the PRODROM survey, as follows:

- for sand, gravel, marble could be used the data on products deliveries from the NACE activities 14.1, 14.2, 14.5;

- for clay and limestone could be used the data on products deliveries from the NACE activities 26 and the coefficients of transformation of products (bricks, cement) into raw materials;

- for installations, machinery and machines the data on products deliveries from the NACE activities 28-35.



Problems encounteredProblems encountered

Difficulties in data collection due toa) lack of sources for some data;b) data confidentiality (according with the

national laws);c) differences between the national

classifications and the Eurostat MFA methodology classification of products;

d) incompatibility of the measure units for different products (electric energy, animal tissue – imports and exports).



- domestic extractions – some minerals (metal ores, industrial minerals, construction minerals) - lack of - lack of sources for some datasources for some data


Problems encountered Problems encountered - domestic extractions- domestic extractions

Non-ferrous metal oresAre no longer extractedBauxite (Aluminum)

UraniumTungsten

Are not extracted in our country

Industrial mineralsPeat for agricultural useOtherAbrasives natural (pumice, volcanic

cinder etc.) Diamonds, gemsDiamonds industrialMagnesiteMicaSulphurConstruction mineralsAsphalt



- imports and exports - for some goods are no import/export or import/export data

are in monetary values and are not significant and for others the data are confidential;

- packaging (the foreign trade statistics dose not cover the packaging materials imported/exported with products) and waste (the pilot study on waste import and export was finalized in 2005);

- agriculture- for some products are no available data, others are not

cultivated in our country or for others the production is not significant. - in the national survey some products are grouped, but in the

Eurostat MFA methodology classification the products are requested separately.



- unused domestic extraction – mining and quarrying (direct data request to the mining companies) and soil excavation (indirect data source – coefficients applied in the “Total material requirement of the European Union”);

- indirect flows associated with imports – raw materials, semi-manufactured products, finished products (indirect data source – coefficients applied in the “Total material requirement of the European Union”).


- dissipative use of products – fertilizers and pesticides applied are surveyed as active substances and are no data for sewage sludge and compost used in agriculture ;

- dissipative losses – for soil erosion – agriculture based on a coefficient developed by Research Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry in 1982.


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