Environmental Protection Investments in the Czech Republic
Environmental investments in 1986 - 2000 | 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:
water pollution control (except for groundwater) : waste water treatment plants, facilities designed
to dispose of or reduce pollution in specific indicators, sludge treating, thickening and/or dewatering facilities, facilities designed to diminish negative impact of discharged waste water on the quality of water in water courses, facilities designed to improve the quality and self–purification capacity of water, construction
of sewerage networks with end–of–pipe waste water treatment plants, facilities designed to use waste water without influence on the quality surface and ground water, equipment designed to monitor the quality
of water;
air pollution control and climate protection: removal of solid emissions, removal of gaseous emissions, environmental substitutions in the area of using different fuels and fluidized–bed combustion, substitution of existing polluters with facilities running on alternative energy sources, shift to technological processes with low or no emissions, programme improvement of the efficiency of energy in final consumption, equipment to monitor air pollution;
environment-friendly management of waste: use and disposal of hazardous, municipal and other types of waste, decontamination of old landfills, equipment designed to monitor waste;
nature and landscape conservation: land reclamation due to result of mining and quarrying activities and on land filling sites; protection of species and habitats; regeneration and tending of forests in national parks, protected landscape areas and other areas protected according to regulations on the protection
of nature, which call for different management methods; protection against erosion, avalanche and fire, projects included in the programme of the revitalisation of river systems, and other similar measures;
reduction of impact of physical factors on the environment: projects including the designing
and applications of noise abatement equipment, anti–radon measures, measuring equipment, etc.
soil and grounwater protection – protection of soil and groundwater against pollutants, soil decontamination, groundwater purification, provision of needed monitoring;
Air and climate protection was referred to as air quality control before 1996.
Nature and landscape protection was referred to as soil reclamation before 1996.
Water pollution control (except for groundwater) was referred to as water quality control before 1996.
The symbol of dot (.) shows that the figure is not available or cannot be relied on.
The symbol of zero (0) in tables designates figures smaller than a half of the unit of measure chosen.