The UK NEA has merely helped prioritise activities and is not a substitute to implementing the other approaches to natural capital accounting analysed in the context of this study. The accounts it provides may prove extremely useful for broader economic analysis, which is why EU Member States are already committed to implementing a whole range of its accounts under European legislation, but its direct applicability for decisionmaking relating to biodiversity is more limited (but still real with some room for improvement, especially if its accounts are better linked with life-cycle impact data on resources and goods which can be linked to specific sectors of the economy within the SEEA framework).