Download or read book Environmental Protection Expenditure in Europe written by Eurostat and published by European Communities. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The statistics include the money spent to protect the environment, any associated revenues or cost savings, and information about the financing of environmental protection activities (subsidies and payments for services). The data can be used as the basis for analysis of the 'polluter pays' principle'; the effects on competitiveness; analysis of the effect of regulations and policies, and to estimate the size of the environmental goods and services industry.