Indicator: Increase in the number of remediated sites
Indicator name

Tag: LSI003
Indicator abbreviated name

Definition: Increase in the number of remediated sites
Definition describing what the indicator measures

Unit: Number of sites
Measurement unit of the indicator values

Spatial coverage: EU (national values are available for 13 Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden, Slovakia)
Geographic area covered by the indicator

Temporal coverage: 2006-2016
Time coverage of the indicator from first to most recent available year

Update frequency: Every 3+ years
Frequency at which indicator is updated

DPSIR: State
DPSIR classification framework: Driver, Pressure, State, Impact, or Response

Method: 1) Extraction of the number of remediated sites by country reported under "Site status 6" in the 2016 questionnaire; 2) Interpretation (as "Site status 6" did not exist in the 2006 questionnaire) and subsquent extraction of the number of remediated sites by country reported in the 2006 questionnaire; 3) Selection of the countries which reported remediated sites both in 2006 and 2016 to calculate a difference in the number of remediated sites between 2016 and 2006; 4) Calculation of the increase in the number of remediated sites between 2006 and 2016 by country; 5) Calculation of an EU estimate for the increase in the number of remediated sites based on all remediated sites reported in 2006 and all remediated sites reported in 2016 - therefore, because some countries reported remediated sites in 2006 but not and 2016 and vice versa, the EU estimate does not correspond to the sum of the 13 individual Member States for which values are available at national level.
Description of the main methodological steps used to calculate the indicator

Reference: Payá Pérez, A. and Rodríguez Eugenio, N., 2018, Status of local soil pollution in Europe: revision of the indicator 'Progress in the management contaminated sites in Europe', Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Reference sources describing the indicator and method to calculate it (e.g. peer-reviewed articles, scientific/technical reports, webpages, other)

Producer: European Environment Agency
Institution which produces the calculation of the indicator values

Provider: European Environment Agency
Institution supplying the indicator values, even if not the original producer of indicator values

Open source: False
Indicates whether calculation code is openly available

Spatial scope (Member States): False
Whether the indicator is available at Member States level

Spatial scope (EU27): True
Whether the indicator is available at EU27 aggregated level

Spatial scope (global): False
Whether the indicator is available at global level

Accuracy uncertainties: There is great variability across countries due to differences in the definition and number of polluting activities, in the building of registers and related terminology, and in the underlying national policies. Some of the data reported in 2006 cannot be validated anymore. In addition, the management categories for which countries report their statistics have changed between surveys. Consequently, some level of interpretation has been applied in order to compare the 2006 survey to the 2016 survey. Therefore, only the general overall country-internal trend can be intepreted.
Comment on data accuracy, limitations, and uncertainty

Comments: None
Additional remarks

Storage: None
Webpage link containing the code and/or detailed description of the workflow to calculate the indicator

Copyright/Licence of use: See EEA Copyright/Licence Policy: https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/. The data are provided by EEA based on data reported by the countries.
Copyright or licensing information related to the indicator