Annual Environmental Protection Expenditures Survey (EPES)

Environmental management practices of establishment, category

Environmental management practices refers to the management practices adopted or utilized by the establishment to avoid or minimize pollution or to conserve resources.

Establishment refers to the level at which accounting data required to measure production is available (principal inputs, revenues, salaries and wages). The establishment, as a statistical unit, is defined as the most homogeneous unit of production for which the business maintains accounting records from which it is possible to assemble all the data elements required to compile the full structure of the gross value of production (total sales or shipments, and inventories), the cost of materials and services, and labour and capital used in production.

The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:

• Environmental Management Practices, total responses
• Resource management activities