Environmental protection expenditure of enterprises

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Environmental protection expenditure of enterprises

The total environmental protection expenditure of the extractive and manufacturing industries passed for the first time in 2015 the 1 billion mark. In 2014, they still amounted to 762.7 millions of euros. The expenditure consist of two elements: current expenditure and investments. The current expenditure did not increase (546.4 millions of euros in 2014, 542.7 millions of euros in 2015), but the investments did: from 216.3 to 460.6 millions of euros.