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1 EEA European Environment Agency Copenhagen · Denmark http://www.eea.eu.int

2 EU 15 member states + Iceland Liechtenstein Norway PHARE countries TACIS

3 The EEA Mandate “To provide the Community and the Member States with objective, reliable and comparable information at European level.” (Reg. 1210/90)

4 EEA GOALS Establish and coordinate EIONET Provide information for environmental policy development and implementation Ensure broad dissemination and accessibility Develop and publish a State of the Environment Report every 3 years Co-operate, add value and avoid duplication

5 EIONET ELEMENTS ETC ETC EEA ETC NFPs NRCs MCEs

6 EEA PRINCIPLES Providing best available information Pooling of existing information and know-how Encouraging a global perspective Facilitating harmonisation of data Serving wide audiences Developing innovative ways of dissemination

7 EEA’s KEY CLIENTS The Community Institutions, i.e. the Commission The Council of Ministers The European Parliament Member states

8 EEA COOPEATION WITH INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS UNEP UN-ECE OECD WHO-Europe WMO

9 THE EEA PROGRAMME AREAS 1.Databases and Topic Reporting 2.Integrated Assessment 3.Periodical Reporting 4.Reporting System Support 5.Service and Network Infrastructure

10 EEA PRODUCTS AND SERVICES 1999-2003 (1) State and Outlook on Europe’s Environment - The four/five year report European Environmental Signals - Regular (annual) Indicator- based reports Assessments on priority problems, sectors and regions - Environmental Issues Series Topic reports (air, water, nature etc.) - some regular, others timed for policy use

11 EEA PRODUCTS AND SERVICES 1999-2003 (2) Technical reports, guidelines and handbooks Access to EEA/EIONET Data bases and relevant data and information sources Service and reporting to policy-makers based on the EEA Environment Information System

12 Reporting on sectors and the environment …..contains the main indicators of the sector - environment reporting mechanisms Central product in EEA family of indicator reports/reporting mechanisms... Climate change Energy Environmentalsignals Transport&Environment Agriculture

13 Indicators are chosen to answer policy questions Type A: “What is happening?”Type A: “What is happening?” Environmental state and quality Type B: “Does it matter?”Type B: “Does it matter?” Performance indicators Type C: “Are we improving our processes?”Type C: “Are we improving our processes?” Eco-efficiency indicators Type D: "Are polices working?"Type D: "Are polices working?" Measure of policy effectiveness

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15 FROM LINEAR TO CIRCULAR ECONOMIES FIG. 2 AN ECO-EFFICIENT CIRCULAR ECONOMY FIG. 1 A WASTEFUL LINEAR ECONOMY PRODUCTIONRESOURCESCONSUMPTION MUCH WASTE REDESIGN RESOURCES WASTE PRODUCTIONCONSUMPTION MINIMAL WASTE RECYCLEREPAIR REUSERENOVATE

16 New challenges (2001-2003) I. Waste prevention / minimisation waste loads / activities (i.e. industrial production) material flows (inputs - outputs of production processes) resource productivity indicators (i.e. % of raw materials "wasted") load coefficients (i.e. kg of heavy metals/kg of product)

17 Final objective: to find/propose best available techniques (BAT) for waste minimisation to make "what - if" scenarios (how waste quantities will arise if existing/new developments prevail

18 New challenges (2001 - 2003) II. Policy effectiveness = evaluation of waste management plans, strategies (national / European level) Indicators Assessment tools/methods

19 Final objective: to check targets with actual performance whywhere / how to determine "weak spots" in policy implementation to visualise issues / areas for improvement

20 New challenges (2001 - 2003) III. EEA enlargement data flow / information assessment cooperation with DGENV, EUROSTAT, JRC waste statistics Regulation reporting obligations joint projects


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