Information in the Environment in the Czech Republic
F - Financing of the environment pollution control | Contents |
Environmental protection investments include all capital expenditure related
to environmental protection activities (involving methods, technologies, processes, equipment or parts thereof), where the main purpose is to collect, treat, monitor and control, reduce, prevent, or eliminate pollutants and pollution or any other degradation of the environment, resulting from the operating activity of the company.
Information on environmental investments (investments in environment pollution control)
are measured through annual statistical questionnaires. Data on gross tangible investments are
the sum of expenditures spent by reporting units on the acquisition of tangible fixed assets
(by purchase or own activity), together with the total value of tangible fixed assets acquired free
of charge, by transfer under respective laws and regulations, and by transfer from personal use
to business.
Environment pollution control projects include:
Air pollution control and climate protection includes e.g. innovations of technological processes designed to prevent pollution from arising (protection of air, climate and ozone layer); removal of waste gas and vented air; removal of solid and gaseous emissions; air quality monitoring systems.
Wastewater management includes e.g. innovations of technological processes designed
to prevent pollution from generation; construction of wastewater treatment plants; construction
of sewerage systems connected to wastewater treatment plants; cooling water management; water quality monitoring systems.
Waste management includes e.g. innovations of technological processes designed to prevent waste from generation; facilities and equipment for waste collection, transport, separation
and treatment; construction of incineration plants, recycling plants, controlled landfills, and composting plants; redevelopment (sanitation) of old landfills; waste monitoring systems.
Landscape and biodiversity protection includes e.g. protection and rehabilitation of habitats and species; protection of natural and semi-natural types of landscape; protection and renewal
of environmental stability elements; revitalization of hydrological network; costs of solutions to duties resulting from Articles 35 and 32 of Act 44/1988 Coll., on the Protection and Use of Mineral Resources (the Mining Act).
Soil, groundwater and surface water protection and remediation includes e.g. prevention of pollutants from deposition in soil and then from infiltration into water; prevention of soil from contamination and degradation by chemical effects, followed by soil remediation; protection of soil against erosion, slope movements and other degradation caused by physical phenomena, including costs of solutions to landslide issues; costs of geological survey tasks aimed at protection of soil, groundwater and surface water.
Vibration and noise abatement (excl. workplace protection) includes e.g. prevention of noise and vibration from generation through technological innovations; construction and application of noise and vibration control systems in transport by road, rail and air and in industry; measuring equipment.
Radiological protection includes e.g. anti-radon measures; geological work connected with the issue of locating deep nuclear waste depositories; measuring equipment; highly radioactive waste transport and handling.
Research and development include R&D activities dealing with air pollution control
and protection of climate and ozone layer; water pollution control; waste management; soil
and groundwater protection; noise and vibration abatement; biodiversity and landscape conservation; radiological protection, and other environmental research and development.
Other activities include acquisition of tangible fixed assets to protect against floods, environmental protection education and training.