Definition: Other economic disappearance of non-produced asset...

Category: National accounts

Other economic disappearance of non-produced assets includes:
 (1) other reductions in the level of exploitable subsoil resources (reassessments of exploitability due to changes in technology or relative prices);
 (2) quality change in non-produced assets due to changes in economic uses;
 (3) degradation of non-produced assets due to economic activity. Covered is degradation of land, water resources and in principle of other natural assets;
 (4) write-off of purchased goodwill, cancellation of transferable contracts and exhaustion of patent protection. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=CA-15-96-001&mode=view