Definition: Environmental Domains (of Environmental Protection...

Category: Environment

In the Joint OECD/Eurostat Questionnaire, the scope of environmental protection expenditure is defined according to the Single European Standard Statistical Classification of Environmental Protection Activities (CEPA). (More details are available in the full CEPA including explanatory notes, which could be downloaded from http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/ramon).

CEPA distinguishes nine different environmental domains: 

1. Protection of ambient air and climate
2. Wastewater management (includes prevention of emission to surface water)
3. Waste management (includes treatment of low-level radioactive waste, composting, street cleaning and sweeping, recycling)
4. Protection and remediation of soil, groundwater and surface water (includes all cleaning-up activities)
5. Noise and vibration abatement (excluding workplace protection)
6. Protection of biodiversity and landscape
7. Protection against radiation (excluding external safety)
8. Research and Development
9. Other environmental protection activities