Sogeti Lot 2 - Service Supply in Enviro...

Since the adoption of the first European Strategy for Environmental Accounting (ESEA) in 2003, European leaders have recognised the important role of environmental accounting as an instrument for sustainable development and for EU environment policy. Background material on Eurostat's environmental accounting – manuals and handbooks, questionnaires, data publications as well as pilot studies undertaken by individual countries – is available on the Eurostat website. Together with the national statistical offices, Eurostat is responsible for the European statistical system. Eurostat carries out some of its activities by awarding contracts for the provision of services relating to the various fields of the European statistical programme.
This contract is about supporting service on data production and development of physical environmental accounts (Lot 2). Therein, the Institute of Social Ecology is involved in task 2 on economy-wide material flow accounts, which includes the following activities:
a. Revision of methodology (update of compilation guidelines)
b. Revision of questionnaire – incl. compilation and checking tools, and annexes
c. Prepare for checking & gap-filling (auxiliary files (i.e. COMEXT) and checking tools update and testing)
d. Validate and gap-filling data (incl. early estimates T+15) in consultation with NSIs (iterations)
e. Dissemination (preparation of a MFA publication in Statistics in Focus)
f. Early estimates T+8