Glossary:Classification of Resource Management Activities (CReMA)
The classification of resource management activities, abbreviated as CReMA, was developed by Eurostat task forces and classifies activities, products, expenditure and other transactions that aim to preserve and enhance the stock of natural resources. Resource management comprises a large variety of activities, including the production of energy from renewable sources, measures to improve energy efficiency, recovery of materials, and sustainable management of water and forest resources.
For the purposes of CReMA the following definitions are used:
Resource management activities are production activities using equipment, labour, manufacturing techniques, information networks or products, to create goods or services for managing natural resources.
Resource management products are:
- resource management services produced by resource management activities; and
- adapted and more-resource efficient and connected products.
In analogy to environmental protection, resource management expenditure consists of outlays and other transactions related to:
- inputs for resource management activities (energy, raw materials and other intermediate inputs, wages and salaries, taxes linked to production, consumption of fixed capital);
- capital formation and the buying of land (investment) for resource management activities;
- users’ outlays for buying resource management products;
- transfers for resource management (subsidies, investment grants, international aid, donations, taxes earmarked for resource management, etc.).
CReMA classifies resource management activities by seven main categories and is complemented by the Classification of Environmental Protection Activities (CEPA).