Environment costs of enterprises > 20 employees; key figures, 1985-2012

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Environment costs of enterprises > 20 employees; key figures, 1985-2012
Periods Environmental investments Total environmental investments (mln euro) Environmental investments Water (mln euro) Environmental investments Air (mln euro) Environmental investments Other environmental investments Total other environmental investments (mln euro) Environmental investments Other environmental investments Soil (mln euro) Environmental investments Other environmental investments Waste (mln euro) Environmental investments Other environmental investments Noise (mln euro) Environmental investments Other environmental investments Landscape (mln euro) Environmental investments Share in total investment (%) Net environmental costs (mln euro)
1985 265 70 148 47 11 15 19 1 3.2 669
1990 557 274 211 73 18 37 11 6 5.9 1,185
1991 367 112 188 66 19 31 10 6 4.0 1,374
1992 373 95 179 98 45 37 13 3 4.2 1,409
1993 456 105 236 115 44 37 24 10 5.2 1,354
1994 720 114 483 122 55 33 26 8 8.0 1,525
1995 418 106 153 159 67 31 25 35 4.6 1,545
1996 567 85 230 252 80 39 53 79 5.3 1,572
1997 771 100 435 236 81 72 54 30 6.7 1,675
1998 479 65 277 137 54 51 27 5 4.7 1,768
1999 472 94 222 156 54 63 27 13 4.9 1,873
2000 407 69 245 94 35 37 16 5 4.5 1,939
2001 401 80 208 112 54 23 33 2 4.6 1,999
2002 418 88 227 103 35 38 25 5 4.1 2,077
2003 288 60 167 62 27 20 14 1 3.0 2,051
2004 377 67 202 109 44 25 24 16 4.4 1,983
2005 334 92 195 46 26 10 10 0 3.8 1,859
2006 542 102 386 54 28 14 11 2 5.3 1,769
2007 436 77 271 88 45 20 19 4 4.2 1,712
2008 764 51 628 84 39 31 12 3 7.1 1,648
2009 490 41 396 53 34 8 10 1 4.7 1,430
2010 564 58 416 89 49 21 10 9 5.3 1,352
2011 491 41 364 86 45 20 15 6 3.8 1,339
2012* 620 65 450 105 45 35 20 5 . 1,305
Source: CBS.
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This table shows key figures on the financial burden on industry caused by measures to protect the environment.

Key figures for 'Environment costs of industry' are available for 1985 and (annually) from 1990 up to and including 2012*.

Status of the figures:
Definite data are available for 1985-2011, and provisional data for 2012.
As this table is stopped, data will not be made definite anymore.

Changes as of 5 December 2014:
This table is stopped.

When will new figures be published?
Not relevant anymore, this table will be followed up by ‘Environment costs industry; key figures’. See paragraph 3.

Description topics

Environmental investments
Investments in production facilities that are less damaging to the environment, such as installations for air purification, waste water treatment plants, construction of impermeable flooring, acoustic measures, etc.
The investments are classified by environmental domain:
- Water
- Air
- Other (soil, waste, noise, landscape)
If an environmental investment itself causes environmental problems, the investment needed to tackle these new problems is allocated to the domain of the initial measure as far as possible.
Total environmental investments
Total environmental investments (for all environmental domains).
Water
Air
Other environmental investments
Total other environmental investments
Environmental investments in the environmental domains soil, waste, noise and landscape.
Soil
Waste
Noise
Landscape
Share in total investment
The share of the environmental investments in total investment by industry.
From 2008 total investment only includes investment in property (excluding operational lease).
Net environmental costs
Net environmental costs consist of the costs of environmental activities carried out by companies themselves (capital costs of environmental investments and current costs, like operation, maintenance and monitoring of environmental facilities), paid pollution levies and payments for environmental activities contracted out, minus the received environmental subsidies.