Economy-wide Material Flow Accounts. First quality report following first data transmission under Regulation (EU) 691/2011

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1 Economy-wide Material Flow Accounts First quality report following first data transmission under Regulation (EU) 691/2011 Country Norway Date Contact person: Kari B. Mellem, Please fill in this template and return it to by 28 February Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 in article 7 requires that Member States shall provide the Commission with a report on the quality of the data transmitted. The quality criteria as referred to in Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 shall be applied. Those quality criteria are: relevance, accuracy, timeliness, punctuality, accessibility and clarity, comparability and coherence. Relevance The European Parliament and Council decided economy-wide material flow accounts shall be provided, through Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 on European environmental accounts adopted on 6 July Economy-wide material flow accounts present data in mass units (1000 tonnes) on domestic extraction, imports and exports in a breakdown by 45 material categories (covering biomass, metallic and non-metallic minerals and fossil energy carriers) as well as imports and exports of all other products. The detailed material flows provide a rich empirical database for numerous empirical studies. The derived indicator Domestic Material Consumption is a headline indicator for the EU 2020 resource efficiency initiative. These accounts are consistent with the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA-CF) adopted the United Nations Statistical Commission as a world-level statistical standard in March Accuracy Some data is new (not published before) and some data is revised due to use of new and improved data sources and conversion factors provided by national calculation methods. Table A: New data for the periods and The values have decreased by 7 34 per cent. Table B: New data for the periods and The values have increased by 5 22 per cent.

2 Table D: New data for the periods and The values have decreased by 4 6 per cent. There are no known deficiencies in the data. Timeliness and punctuality The Regulation requires material flow accounts to be provided for the first time on 31 December Norway transmitted the data to Eurostat on (table A) and (table B and D), covering the years (2012). Table A: Data for metal ores and non-metallic minerals from 2006 onwards. Table B and D: Was the data actually ready earlier than that nationally? No Accessibility and clarity Data will be made available on Eurostat s web site as soon as possible after checking. Statistics are published on Statistic Norway s website: Comparability and coherence Data sources (se details in table 1): Domestic extraction: A1 Biomass: Data is provided by the Division for Primary industry statistics. A2 and A3 Metal ores and Non metallic minerals: Statistics on extraction of metal ores, minerals, coal and peat are provided by the Geological survey of Norway. The statistics is based on mandatory reporting from all mining and quarrying enterprises. A4 Fossil energy materials/carriers: Data on extraction of oil and gas (crude oil, condensate and natural gas liquids (NGL) and natural gas) is provided by Division for Energy and environmental statistics. The data source is a register at The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.

3 Trade: External trade statistics. d=&maintable=uharvareland&nvl=&planguage=1&nytmpvar=true&cmssubj ectarea=utenriksokonomi&kortnavnweb=muh&statvariant=&checked=true - Trade: Do you employ Eurostat s correspondence table to assign traded products to material categories, or do you have a national one? Eurostat s correspondence table is used. - Trade: Which conversion factors (e.g. from numbers or pieces to tonnes) do you use? The external trade statistics has data on units in kilogram, except for ships, Vessels, incl. lifeboats and Floating or submersible drilling or production platforms. The following conversion factors are used: Seagoing vessels: 300 kg/gross tonnage Vessels, incl. lifeboats: kg per item Floating or submersible drilling or production platforms: kg per item - Fuel trade, residence adjustment. Do you make adjustments to the trade items for fuel purchases by residents abroad? This relates e.g.to international air and maritime transport as well as to road vehicle journeys abroad. Yes. The adjustment is made according to the adjustments that are done for air emissions. - Are there discontinuities in time series resulting from changes in methodology, sources, etc.? No - What problems do you encounter adapting basic statistics to the concepts of the accounts? The biggest problem we have encountered is to find the appropriate conversion factors for the seagoing vessels. We have used a general conversion factor of 300 kg/gross tonnage. - Are there gaps in sources, missing sources which require those parts to be estimated, data of doubtful quality, etc.? The data for products mainly from metals do most probably contain uncertainties since the conversion factors applied may be wrong (hence the comment above). - Percentage of cells which were not filled but should have been ( not available ) in the transmission to Eurostat. We have not attempted to calculate the percentage of cells which should have been not available. A general approach is that all cells with the sign - means a value of zero, except for A2 and A3 where data for the period are not available. Other assessments and quality reports:

4 - Do you have national descriptions of the methodology you use? No - Do you have national quality reports already available? No

5 Table 1: Sources of data for material categories Code Material category * Source Cereals The Norwegian Agricultural Purchasing and Market Co-operation. The administrative records of the Norwegian Agricultural Authority Roots, tuber Statistics Norway - Sample survey: The sample covers about holders. Data on total yield of each crop are provided Sugar crops Not grown in Norway. The administrative records of the Norwegian Agricultural Authority. Figures on pulses have up to now not been disseminated by Statistics Norway. The Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute provides figures on their website Nuts Not grown in Norway Oil-bearing crops Pulses The administrative records of the Norwegian Agricultural Authority. Figures on oil-bearing crops have up to now not been disseminated by Statistics Norway. The Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute provides figures on their website Vegetables Statistics Norway Sample survey: The sample comprises approximately agricultural holdings cultivating at least one of the crop categories. Some years in the time series are taken from data collected for the administrative records of the Norwegian Agricultural Authority.

6 Statistics Norway Sample survey: The sample comprises approximately agricultural holdings cultivating at least one of the crop categories. Some years in the time series are taken from data collected for the administrative records of the Norwegian Agricultural Authority Fibres Not grown in Norway Other crops n.e.c. Not disseminated in tables, but some figures are given in various articles through the years. For Norway the following are applicable: Various species grown in nurseries, flowers and ornamental plants, Christmas trees, seed production. Several institutions have data, but the data have not yet been collected and organized in a table by Statistics Norway. Estimates for ornamental plants and flowers are based on area figures for nurseries mulitiplied with yield factors given in ew-mfa Compilation guide 2012, table 3. Statistics Norway has data on the average number of Christmas trees sold annualy. The source is The Norwegian Forest Owners Fedration. The conversion factor used is 11 kg/tree Straw The Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute provides figures on their website Other crop residues Fodder crops No figures calculated due to lack of reliable data sources Fruits Statistics Norway Annual sample survey: A sample is drawn from the register of holders applying for governmental grants. The size of the sample is about holders. The various crops are converted to dry matter content of 85 per cent except for the wheight of fodder roots and tubers which are not corrected for Grazed biomass The data for grazed biomass is estimated from fodder account given by Norsk institutt for landbruksøkonomisk forskning, abbreviated NILF. NILF is an independent research institute under the Ministry of Agriculture. NILF provides background material for general agricultural economics descisions, economic development and decisions on farms and rural development. NLF is responsible for farm account statistics in agriculture

7 1.3.1 Timber (roundwood ) and forestry. Statistics Norway sample survey on households Wild fish catch The Directorate of Fisheries produces catch statistics based on information from approved sales co-operatives Other aquatic The Ministry of Agriculture and Food through the Register of Timber Trade and Diverted Forest Trust Fund. The firm Skog-Data AS manages the register Wood fuel The Directorate of Fisheries does the control and the revision of the catch database and estimations if necessary. The Directorate of Fisheries produces catch statistics based on information from approved sales co-operatives Hunting and gathering Metal ores and nonmetallic minerals The Directorate of Fisheries does the control and the revision of the catch database and estimations if necessary. Moose: Red deer: Wild reindeer: Moose: A contact person for each hunting ground report to the municipality. The municipality is responsible for reporting aggregated data for the municipality to Statistics Norway. Red deer: As for moose see above Reindeer: The Wild Reindeer Councils Geological survey of Norway, annual report (in Norwegian only) is available here: ikk_2012.pdf The report is based on annual compulsory reporting from businesses in

8 mining and quarrying. 4. Fossil energy materials/ca rriers The figures are not available in Statbank, but the data files are imported annually from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. * For full labels of material categories, see Regulation 691/2011.