Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1170 of 13 June 2025 granting derogations to certain Member States regarding data transmission under Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European environmental economic accounts (notified under document C(2025) 3684)
Date: 2025-06-13
Institutions: European Commission, Eurostat
Subjects: EU Member State, EU statistics, derogation from EU law, environmental statistics, national accounts








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Official Journal of the European Union


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2025/1170


16.6.2025







            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2025/1170
of 13 June 2025
         
granting derogations to certain Member States regarding data transmission under Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European environmental economic accounts


(notified under document C(2025) 3684)


(Only the Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Romanian and Spanish texts are authentic)


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 691/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2011 on European environmental economic accounts (1), and in particular Article 8(1) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


The Kingdom of Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Cyprus and Romania have requested derogations due to the need for major adaptations to their national statistical systems in order to comply with Regulation (EU) No 691/2011. Those derogations should be granted for a maximum duration of 2 years to the requesting Member States.












(2)


The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The derogations from Regulation (EU) No 691/2011, as set out in the Annex of this Decision, are granted to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Cyprus and Romania for the respective reference periods listed therein.


Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Cyprus and Romania.




Done at Brussels, 13 June 2025.


For the Commission

Valdis DOMBROVSKIS
            

Member of the Commission






(1)  
            OJ L 192, 22.7.2011, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/691/oj.




ANNEX
DEROGATIONS







Member States


Derogation


End of derogation




Kingdom of Belgium


Annex IX Module on ecosystem accounts


22 December 2028




Federal Republic of Germany


Annex VIII Module on environmental subsidies and similar transfers, section 5, reporting tables, point 3.
Transfers receivable by corporations from general government grouped according to the classification of economic activities NACE Rev. 2


23 December 2026




Federal Republic of Germany


Annex IX Module on ecosystem accounts


30 June 2027




Hellenic Republic


Annex VII Module for Forest Accounts


27 September 2027




Kingdom of Spain


Annex VII Module for Forest Accounts


27 September 2027




Kingdom of Spain


Annex IX Module for Ecosystem Accounts, section 5 reporting tables






1.


Ecosystem extent accounts






23 December 2027




Kingdom of Spain


Annex IX Module for Ecosystem Accounts,
section 5 reporting tables






2.


Ecosystem services accounts;




section 3 list of characteristics






3.


Ecosystem condition accounts recording ecosystem characteristics






22 December 2028




French Republic


Annex IX Module on Ecosystem accounts,
section 3






 


4(a) Provisioning services, pollination










 


4(b) Regulating and maintenance services, air filtration










 


4(b) Regulating and maintenance services, local climate regulation






23 December 2027




Italian Republic


Annex VII Module for forest accounts, section 5, reporting tables






1


Area of wooded land;










2


Volume of timber;










3


Value of timber.






27 September 2027




Republic of Cyprus


Annex VIII Module on environmental subsidies and similar transfers


23 December 2027




Romania


Annex IX Module on ecosystem accounts


22 December 2028







ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2025/1170/oj
ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)