The Environmental Protection Expenditure Account (EPEA) is a monetary description of environmental protection activities in accordance with the System of Environmental‑economic Accounting (SEEA) central framework. It is coherent with the national and related satellite accounts.
Because the full EPEA framework is quite expensive in terms of resources to be set up, this EPEA module significantly simplifies the full framework while it still allows compiling a measure of environmental protection expenditure for the whole economy comparable with national accounts aggregates.
This data uses the Classification of Environmental Purposes (CEP), which is a generic, functional classification of economic activities, products, expenditures and other transactions related to environmental protection and management of natural resources. Output of these services can be output of market, non-market and ancillary activities. EPEA is directly linked to the three definitions of GDP, the production measure, the expenditure measure and the income measure of GDP.
EPEA covers (1) expenditure on EP products by resident units; (2) expenditure related to the production of EP products, including the gross capital formation, and (3) transactions related to the financing of EP expenditure. It covers both the supply and demand side.
Data is expressed in million national currency.
For more details see the database documentation below and the Eurostat “Environmental protection expenditure accounts handbook”: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-manuals-and-guidelines/-/KS-GQ-17-004
Data source(s): OECD and Eurostat questionnaires on EPEA. Eurostat sends the questionnaire annually to its member countries, the OECD every two years.
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Dataset release date: May 5, 2026
Database documentation