Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2174 of 24 November 2015 on the indicative compendium of environmental goods and services, the format for data transmission for European environmental economic accounts and modalities, structure and periodicity of the quality reports pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European environmental economic accounts (Text with EEA relevance)

The indicative compendium of environmental goods and services and of economic activities is established as set out in the Annex.

Member States shall provide data required by the Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 using SDMX compliant data formats. The Commission (Eurostat) shall make available detailed documentation in relation to these formats.

1 Every year Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with reports on the quality of the data transmitted under Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 with the same transmission deadlines as stipulated in Annexes I to VI, section 4 of that Regulation.

2 The quality reports shall include the following information: (a) the quality of sources used for data transmitted under Regulation (EU) No 691/2011; (b) the adjustments made to basic statistics to make the result align to the concepts and definitions of the accounts or for other methodological reasons; (c) the estimation and compilation of data which cannot be derived directly from statistical sources; (d) the breaks in time series resulting from changes in methodology or data sources and the steps taken to ensure time series are as comparable as possible.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.