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Environment is divided into the environmental domains (parts): water, air and energy, soil, waste, noise and landscape. The environmental domain of water is subdivided in water saving and water (other); the environmental domain of air and energy is subdivided in energy saving, renewable energy and air. Environmental investments are capital expenditures in equipment and plant for pollution and special anti-pollution accessoiries, or plant linked to cleaner technologies, in order to prevent or reduce the amount of pollution of the environment.

Environmental investments have a payback period of not less than three years. The net environmental costs of enterprises consist of the costs of environmental activities carried out by companies themselves (capital costs of environmental investments and other costs), paid pollution levies and payments for environmental activities contracted out, minus the received environmental subsidies.