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This article presents an overview of statistics for the remediation and other waste management services sector in the European Union (EU), as covered by NACE Rev. 2 Division 39.

Table 1: Key indicators, remediation activities and other waste management services (NACE Division 39), EU-27, 2010 - Source: Eurostat (sbs_na_ind_r2)
Table 2a: Key indicators, remediation activities and other waste management services (NACE Division 39), 2010 - Source: Eurostat (sbs_na_ind_r2)
Table 2b: Key indicators, remediation activities and other waste management services (NACE Division 39), 2010 - Source: Eurostat (sbs_na_ind_r2)
Table 3: Key size class indicators, remediation activities and other waste management services (NACE Division 39), EU-27, 2010 - Source: Eurostat (sbs_sc_ind_r2)
Table 4a: Employment by enterprise size class, remediation activities and other waste management services (NACE Division 39), 2010 - Source: Eurostat (sbs_sc_ind_r2)
Table 4b: Value added by enterprise size class, remediation activities and other waste management services (NACE Division 39), 2010 - Source: Eurostat (sbs_sc_ind_r2)

Main statistical findings

Structural profile

The remediation and other waste management services sector (Division 39) included 2 452 enterprises in the EU-27 in 2010. This sector employed 40 thousand persons (2009 data) and recorded EUR 1.04 billion of value added in 2010. As such, it was the smallest sector (for which data are available) within the EU-27’s non-financial business economy (Sections B to J and L to N and Division 95) at the NACE division level, contributing a 0.03 % share to employment in 2009 and a 0.02 % share to value added in 2010. Within water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities (Section E) the remediation and other waste management services sector contributed 3.2 % of sectoral employment in 2009 and 1.2 % of sectoral value added in 2010.

The apparent labour productivity of the EU-27’s remediation and other waste management services sector in 2009 was EUR 40.9 thousand per person employed, just above the non-financial business economy average of EUR 40.5 thousand per person employed, but considerably below the water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities average of EUR 61.8 thousand per person employed.

Country analysis

The EU Member State with the largest workforce in the remediation and other waste management services sector in 2010 was Italy where 4.8 thousand persons were employed, which was more than in France, Germany or Spain (no data are available for the United Kingdom). France’s remediation and other waste management services sector added EUR 218.7 million of value in 2010, slightly more than the EUR 192.6 million reported for Italy, and close to double the levels in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (no data are available for Germany).

Hungary was the most specialised EU Member State for the remediation and other waste management services sector in 2010: this sector contributed 0.05 % of Hungarian non-financial business economy value added, ahead of 0.04 % shares in Bulgaria and the Netherlands; in Croatia the share was much higher, at 0.17 %. Hungary’s 2.3 % share of EU-27 value added in this sector in 2010 was the second highest Hungarian share among all of the non-financial business economy NACE divisions, while the Dutch share of 11.1 % was its third highest share. The level of value added in this sector in Croatia was equivalent to 3.4 % of the EU-27 total and this was a higher ratio than Croatia recorded for any other non-financial business economy NACE division.

Size class analysis

An analysis of the enterprise size shows that small enterprises (employing 10 to 49 persons) and medium-sized enterprises (employing 50 to 249 persons) each contributed around one third of the value added within the remediation and other waste management services sector in the EU-27 in 2010. Micro enterprises (employing fewer than 10 persons) provided 16.9 % of value added and large enterprises an even smaller share.

Among all of the EU Member States for which data are available (see Tables 4a and 4b) small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs, employing fewer than 250 persons) generated all of the value added and employed the entire workforce. As such, the large enterprises that were active in this sector in the EU-27 as a whole were located across those Member States for which data are not available, such as Germany, Italy or the Netherlands.

Data sources and availability

The analysis presented in this article is based on the main dataset for structural business statistics (SBS) and size class data, all of which are published annually.

The main series provides information for each EU Member State as well as a number of non-member countries at a detailed level according to the activity classification NACE. Data are available for a wide range of variables.

In structural business statistics, size classes are generally defined by the number of persons employed. A limited set of the standard structural business statistics variables (for example, the number of enterprises, turnover, persons employed and value added) are analysed by size class, mostly down to the three-digit (group) level of NACE. The main size classes used in this article for presenting the results are:

  • small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): with 1 to 249 persons employed, further divided into;
    • micro enterprises: with less than 10 persons employed;
    • small enterprises: with 10 to 49 persons employed;
    • medium-sized enterprises: with 50 to 249 persons employed;
  • large enterprises: with 250 or more persons employed.

Context

This article presents an overview of statistics for the remediation and other waste management services sector in the EU, as covered by NACE Rev. 2 Division 39. This division includes the provision of remediation services, in other words, the clean-up of contaminated buildings and sites, soil, surface or ground water, oceans, seas and coastal areas. Mechanical, chemical and biological methods are included, either in situ or ex situ. Also included are activities such as the decontamination of industrial and power plants, cleaning-up following accidental pollution, asbestos, lead paint, and other toxic material abatement and specialised pollution-control activities.

This division contains one group and one class only and so there is no analysis of subsectors in this article.

See also

Further Eurostat information

Publications

Main tables

Database

SBS - industry and construction (sbs_ind_co)
Annual detailed enterprise statistics - industry and construction (sbs_na_ind)
Annual detailed enterprise statistics for industry (NACE Rev. 2 B-E) (sbs_na_ind_r2)
SMEs - Annual enterprise statistics by size class - industry and construction (sbs_sc_ind)
Industry by employment size class (NACE Rev. 2 B-E) (sbs_sc_ind_r2)
SBS - regional data - all activities (sbs_r)
SBS data by NUTS 2 regions and NACE Rev. 2 (from 2008 onwards) (sbs_r_nuts06_r2)

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