“Environmental Accounts and Climate Change” Department has the following functions:

• Develops new and improves the existing methodologies, tools and technologies of the environmental accounts and carries out statistical surveys providing an information base for the accounts as follows:

– Air emissions accounts and Survey on combustion and production processes - sources of emissions into the atmosphere, and calculating air emissions;

– Energy accounts;

– Waste accounts;

– Water accounts (qualitative and quantitative) and surveys "Water supply and sewerage" and "Water use";

– Economy-wide material flow accounts and Survey on subsoil assets;

– Economy-wide material stock accounts and measurement of unused excavated earth materials (including soil);

– Forest accounts;

– Environmental taxes by economic activity and Survey on paid environmentally related taxes and fees;

– Environmental protection expenditure accounts and Survey on environmental protection and maintenance expenditure; tangible fixed assets with ecological use; total revenues from taxes and charges and expenditure spent on municipal waste; receipts and expenditure of specialized producers for the environment;

– Environmental goods and services sector accounts and Survey on environmental goods and services sector;

– Ecosystem services accounts;

– Resource use and management expenditure accounts and transfers;

• Coordinates collection of administrative information on processes and phenomena related to the environmental accounts other than the regular statistical surveys.

• Develops and maintains specialized nomenclatures and register of reporting units of the statistical surveys related to the environmental accounts.

• Participates in the development and maintenance of GIS and databases.

• Implements measures to improve the quality and reliability of statistical data used for environmental accounts.

• Prepares statistical publications, analyses and estimates on environmental accounts and climate change and provides information for the purposes of national and international institutions.

• Cooperates with national bodies and international institutions in the development of legal base and statistical methodology harmonized with international standards in the field of environmental accounts and climate change.