Classification Detail
Classification of environmental purposes (CEP)
Basic Bibliographic Information
Status:
Operational
Type:
To Be Determined
Citation:
N/A
ISBN:
N/A
Website:
Custodian:
Eurostat
Available Formats:
PDF, Excel, RDF dataset
Year Adopted:
2024
Year Published:
2024
Available Languages (besides English):
N/A
Availability:
Fully available only in English.
Purpose of the Classification
Statistical Domains:
3.1 Environment
Purpose:
The CEP is a generic, functional classification of economic activities, products, expenditures and other transactions related to environmental protection and management of natural resources.
Main Applications:
The CEP can classify environmental activities, environmental products or environmental expenditures. Its main use is within the system of environmental economic accounting central framework.
Main Users:
Policy makers in the area of environmental information (climate change, biodiversity, bioeconomy, circular economy) in relation to macro economics.
Methodology
Scope:
The CEP is a classification of economic activities, products and related transactions by economic operators. This classification is used in the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). There are other classifications in SEEA CF for natural resources, e.g. flows of materials or energy, stocks of natural assets, etc. CEP is not used to classify flows nor stocks of natural resources.
Concept Being Classified:
The CEP classifies economic activities, products, expenditures and other transactions related to environmental protection and management of natural resources.
Statistical Units:
The statistical units for CEP are the same as the economic units in the SEEA CF and SNA. The SEEA CF (paragraphs 2.109-2.110) states that the relevant economic units are those that interact with each other and that are able to make decisions about the production, consumption and accumulation of goods and services.
Main Principles:
The environmental purpose criterion has a central function delimitating the scope of the CEP and allocating the classification units to CEP divisions/groups/classes.
The CEP classifies “homogeneous” environmental protection and/or resource management activities, products and expenditures.
Relationships to Other International Classifications:
Related To:
Major Differences (Scope, Structure, and Concepts):
The CEP embraces the scope of the CEPA and replaces CEPA 2000.
The classification of certain of those expenditures in CEP has clear connections to other functional classifications, e.g. COFOG for government expenditure.
The CEP embraces the scope of CReMA 2008 and replaces it.
Classification Structure
Definition of Structure:
Level:
Level Name:
Code Format:
Number of Items:
Level 1
Division
00
8
Level 2
Group
0000
25
Level 3
Classes
000000
75
Criteria for Definition of Levels:
CEP divisions have been designed to ensure statistical balance safeguarding, at the same time, symmetry, coherence and homogeneity in the structure of classification and kind of activities, products and transaction included in each level.
At each level, categories are mutually exclusive and they have been labelled to be informative and clear for the users about the specific environmental activities, products and expenditures included.
Revision Information
Chronology of revisions/versions of the classification:
Year Adopted:
Title or Version Number:
Website:
2024
Official Adopting Entity:
UNSC
Coordinating Entity:
Eurostat in collaboration with UNCEISC and UNSD
Supporting Documents
Coding Index Available:
Yes
Index Website:
Available Languages:
English
Available Formats:
PDF, Excel, RDF dataset
Training Materials and Other Documents:
N/A
Contact Information
Agency / Office:
Eurostat, statistical office of the European Union
Unit:
E2 - Environmental statistics and accounts; sustainable development
Contact Name:
Arturo de la Fuente, Head of Unit
Email:
Website:
Telephone:
+352 4301 32461
Address:
Commission européenne, Eurostat
M De la Fuente, office C2/633 – Unit E2
L-2920 Luxembourg