Information on the Environment in the Czech Republic
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Environmental protection expenditures include expenditures on the acquisition of environmental fixed assets and environmental non-investment expenditures. Environmental expenditure include all 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. The data are collected by means of an annual statistical questionnaire of the CZSO.
Fixed assets are the sum of expenditures expended by reporting units on acquiring fixed assets (by purchase or own activities) and the total value of fixed assets acquired by free transfer, transfer according to respective legislation or by a change from private use to business.
Non-investment expenditures include wages and salaries, payments for rent, energy and other material, and payments for services whose principal purpose is to protect the environment.
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.