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Indicator Fact Sheet
Assessment made on 01 Nov 2002
Data show that:
In general, all countries apply the "polluter pays" principle to different extents. The "polluter pays" principle cannot fully be applied to historic pollution since many legally responsible entities have disappeared or the polluter cannot be identified or because of insolvency of the polluter. Therefore, a considerable share of the total remediation costs has to be provided by public funds. Estimations on public expenditure are readily available, however, information on private expenditure is scarce and depends on rough estimations.
There is a more than a hundred-fold difference in annual remediation expenditures (public and private) per capita amongst the reporting countries (see Figure 1). These differences reflect not just the varying degrees of awareness, but also the different environmental standards applied in each country, the different hydrological conditions and degree of industrialisation.
Remediation costs are on average 10 times higher than site investigations costs.
Links between environmental merit and invested budgets are highly dependent on national standards, in terms of remediation targets and local site conditions.
For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/expenditure-on-remediation-of-contaminated-sites or scan the QR code.
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