European Forest Accounts

Course Leader

Špela GALE

Staff of NSIs involved in compiling, validating, or reporting forest accounts.

Statisticians responsible for environmental accounts or natural capital accounts who need to integrate forestry into broader SEEA/Regulation 691/2011 reporting.

• The participants are expected to understand the objectives of the European Forest Accounts and its links to national accounts.

• Participants must have a sound command of English to make short interventions and to actively participate in discussions.

Course level: 

Intermediate

• Provide an overview of the key concepts of the European Forest Accounts, reporting tables A (Wooded land and Timber), B (Economic Aggregates) and C (Physical Supply and Use);

• Inform about reporting obligations specified in Annex VII of Regulation(EU) 691/2011 (module for Forest Accounts);

• Provide an overview of methods (default and advanced, if applicable) and data sources (EU-wide and national, as applicable) to produce forest accounts data for the legal module;

• Instruct participants about essential validation steps and plausibility checks to assure good quality of data;

• Instruct participants about best practices for filling the questionnaire and metadata for each of the accounts.

Day 1 and Day 2:

• Session 1: Introduction to European Forest Accounts:

(overview and links with other forest statistics and national accounts)

• Session 2: Asset accounts, Economic accounts:

(Structure, data sources and methods)

• Session 3: Supply and Use Tables:

(Structure, data sources and methods)

Day 3:

• Session 4: Best practices:

Metadata and Country presentations (0.5 day)

• Session 5: Data validation

STRUVAL, CONVAL, validation rules (Eurostat) (0.5 day)

As a result of the course, the participants will:

• Understand the key concepts of the European Forest Accounts; be familiar with the reporting obligations required for the EFA module of Regulation(EU) 691/2011;

• Understand the methods suggested for the compilation of EFA data in Eurostat’s methodological documents and possible choices depending on the availability of national data and on other national circumstances;

• Understand what steps/checks they should perform to assure good quality of produced data;

• Be familiar with filling the reporting questionnaires and good practices for providing metadata.

• Presentations and lectures

• Exchange of views/experiences on national practices

• Exercises

Required Reading 

• EU Legislation 691/2011 – indexed on the dedicated website for forestry under Legislation

• European Forest Accounts Handbook – published on the dedicated website for forestry, under methodological Publications

• Validation rules and checks – published on the dedicated website, under Publications /Additional methodological publications

• System of National Accounts 2025

Understand the objectives of the European Forest Accounts and its links to national accounts

Špela GALE

Staff of Eurostat unit E.2