Environmental Protection Expenditure in the Czech Republic in
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Environmental protection expenditures include expenditures on the acquisition of fixed assets for environmental protection and environmental protection non-investment expenditures related to environmental protection activities (technologies, processes, equipment or parts thereof), where the main purpose is to collect, treat, monitor, control, reduce, prevent, or eliminate pollutants and pollution or any other degradation of the environment, resulting from the operating activity of enterprises.
Expenditures on the acquisition of fixed assets for environmental protection are all expenditures on fixed assets acquired by reporting units through purchase, own activity, free transfer, transfer under respective legislation, or change from private use to business.
Environmental protection non-investment expenditures, which arise as a result of operating activities of the enterprise, include wage costs, payments for rent, energy and other materials and supplies and payments for services whose main purpose is the prevention, treatment or elimination of pollutants and pollution or any other degradation of the environment.
The data are taken from the annual statistical questionnaire ŽP 1-01 circulated to chosen economic entities (with 50+ employees and classified to CZ-NACE 01, 02, 10-40, 41, 60 and 62 and all entities irrespective of their size and classified to CZ-NACE 37 and 90) and from the annual statistical questionnaire VI 1-01 designed for government departments, administrative regions (i.e. higher territorial self-governing units), semi-budgetary organizations and similar governmental institutions.The data referring to the expenditures on the acquisition of fixed assets for environmental protection are derived from questionnaires Žp1-01 and VI101, while those on the environmental non-investment expenditures and on economic benefits are only from the former quaestionnaire.
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.