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	European Environment Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		European Environment Agency (EEA), agency of the European Union devoted to establishing a monitoring network for the monitoring of the European environment.
		As a EU body, member states of the European Union are automatically members; however the Council Regulation establishing it provided that other states may become members of it by means of agreements concluded between them and the European Community.
		It is governed by a Management Board composed of representatives of the governments of member states, a European Commission representative and two scientists appointed by the European Parliament, assisted by a committee of scientists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Environment_Agency (172 words)

	AllRefer.com - European Space Agency (Space Exploration) - Encyclopedia
		European Space Agency (ESA), multinational agency dedicated to the promotion, for exclusively peaceful purposes, of cooperation among European states in space research and technology.
		The foundation of ESA was laid with the formation of the European Space Research Organization (ESRO) in 1962 and of the European Launcher Development Organization (ELDO) in 1964.
		The European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC), located at Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is the primary research center and manages the satellite projects.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/EurpnSpac.html (563 words)

	EEA - About us - EU reaches CO2 stabilisation target despite upturn in greenhouse gas emissions
		The European Environment Agency is the main source of information used by the European Union and its Member States in developing environment policies.
		Established by the EU in 1990 and operational in Copenhagen since 1994, the EEA is the hub of the European environment information and observation network (EIONET), a network of some 600 bodies across Europe through which it both collects and disseminates environment-related data and information.
		The European Union has delivered on its long-standing commitment to stabilise emissions of carbon dioxide (CO) - the main "greenhouse" gas responsible for man-made global climate change - at their 1990 level by 2000, despite an emissions upturn in the final year of the period.
	org.eea.eu.int /documents/newsreleases/greenhouse_gas_emission (1488 words)

	EEA - Reports - Europe's environment: the third assessment - English
		This is the third pan-European state of the environment report produced by the EEA.
		The report also analyses how the main economic driving forces put pressure on the European environment and identifies key areas where further action is needed.
		It was prepared for the 'Environment for Europe' Ministerial Conference being held under the auspices of the UN Economic Commission for Europe in Kiev, Ukraine on 21-23 May 2003.
	reports.eea.eu.int /environmental_assessment_report_2003_10/en (145 words)

	Europe Science, Directory
		GLOBE European Union Organization which helps elected officials to co-ordinate their work to achieve greater impact and address the urgency and scale of the environmental threats facing the continent and the planet.
		Baltic Environment Forum The BEF was supposed to function as a discussion forum for environmental policy on a regional level by organising workshops and meetings on regional environmental problems and policy.
		European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EEPO) Promotes the harmonization of phytosanitary regulations and the use of modern, safe, and effective pest controls in the European and Mediterranean region.
	www.indiapolicyinstitute.org /aW5kXzc5MzMx.aspx (454 words)

	RIVM - Environment and Nature
		AIRNET is a European Commission-supported, multi-stakeholder Thematic Network and is co-ordinated by the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) at Utrecht University and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP) at the RIVM.
		Plants and animal species benefit from improving environmental quality and protection by European legislation.
		The state of the environment across Europe has improved in several respects over the past decade, but much of the progress is likely to be wiped out by economic growth because governments have yet to make significant strides towards decoupling environmental pressures from economic activity.
	www.rivm.nl /en/milieu (1479 words)

	European Environment Agency: 24 Feb 2003: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		My officials are in regular contact with the agency through membership of the management board and co-operating with the agency as active participants in the European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONET) as established under the founding Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1210/90 as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 933/1999.
		To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what direct relations she has with the European Environment Agency; and in what circumstances.
		My officials are also working closely with the EEA in their production of a state of the environment report for the forthcoming Kiev Conference.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /wrans/?id=2003-02-24.97896.h (175 words)

	REC - Telematics: DETERMINE: European Environmental Information Systems (1)
		The main purpose of the EEA and the EIONET is to report on the state of Europe's environment so that the European Union and the Member States have a solid basis for developing legislation.
		The best available environmental information is not always with governments, but with museums, research groups, NGOs, etc., for which a place must be found in the EIONET.
		The EEA regulation also charges the EEA with the responsibility to ensure that citizens are properly informed about the environment.
	www.rec.org /REC/Programs/Telematics/DETERMINE/EuroInfoSession/HSaarenmaa.html (1717 words)

	EUROPA - Activities of the European Union - Environment
		European Union environment policy is based on the belief that high environmental standards stimulate innovation and business opportunities.
		EUROPA - Activities of the European Union - Environment
		Protecting the environment is essential for the quality of life of current and future generations.
	europa.eu.int /pol/env/index_en.htm (172 words)

	EC-European Environment Agency
		Agency established by the Council of the European Union; independent of the Commission.
		The Agency currently has 29 member countries and is the first EU body to open its doors to the 13 countries in central and eastern Europe and the Mediterranean basin that have applied for membership of the EU.
		The UK National Focal Point issues a newsletter to provide information on the work of the Agency to all members of the national network and other interested organisations.
	www.marine.gov.uk /ec-eea.htm (385 words)

	EEA - European Environment Agency - Home
		Denmark is among the European leaders in environmental performance in areas such as renewable energies, water protection and organic farming, but there are other areas which could still be improved
		Today, the Environment Commissioner, Stavros Dimas, participated in the launch of two new reports on environment policy effectiveness at the EEA in Copenhagen.
		Summary of the state of the Flemish environment.
	www.eea.eu.int /main_html (821 words)

	EEA - Reports - Impacts of Europe's changing climate - English
		Published by: EEA (European Environment Agency) OPOCE (Office for Official Publications of the European Communities)
		UBA Berlin (Umweltbundesamt, Federal Environmental Agency) and RIVM (National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, the Netherlands) also contributed financially as partners in ETC/ACC.
		The impacts of climate change on Europe's environment and society are shown in this report.
	reports.eea.eu.int /climate_report_2_2004/en (173 words)

	European Environment Agency,Europe's environment,the second assessment (water only)
		Designed to form a key input to the June 1998 Environment for Europe Conference in Aarhus, the fourth meeting of Environment Ministers of all European countries, the report builds on and updates Europe’s Environment: The Dobris Assessment, the first pan-European state of the environment report published in 1995 by the European Environment Agency (EEA).
		The next section of this overview summarises progress with the main European environmental problems and concludes with an analysis of the contribution of the principal societal sectors to the problems and their solutions.
		Environmental experts from many European countries have helped the EEA to prepare this report.
	www.waternunc.com /gb/intreea.htm (675 words)

	The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Environment.
		In 1996, the European Environment Agency began publishing the "Environmental Issues Series", also know as the "Expert Corner's Reports Series," which focuses on indicators and other tools for providing policy relevant information.
		Environment in the European Union at the turn of the century.
		which is the first report on the state of the pan-European environment, requested by the environment ministers for the whole of Europe at the ministerial conference held at Dobris Castle, Czechoslovakia, June 1991.
	www.library.pitt.edu /subject_guides/westeuropean/wwwes/environment2.guide.html (1100 words)

	emcc - European Environment Agency
		The European Environment Agency's (EEA) main task is to assess the current and future state of the environment across Europe and to identify the pressures on it.
		The European Environment Agency (EEA) is an organisation of the European Commission whose mission is to provide decision makers with the information needed to develop policies in the area of environmental protection and sustainable development.
		The EEA is responsible for coordinating the European environment information and observation network (EIONET), which brings together over 300 environment bodies, agencies, public and private research centres and centres of expertise across Europe.
	www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int /print/organisation/eu012o.html (298 words)

	EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTER ON SOIL (ETC/S)
		The European Topic Centre on Terrestrial Environment (ETC-TE) is one of five Topic Centres designated by the European Environment Agency (EEA) for the period 2001 - 2003 to assist in its work of collecting, analysing, evaluating and summarising information relevant to national and international policies for the environment and sustainable development.
		For that purpose a contract "Study and reporting on local and diffuse contamination" concluded between EEA and the Austrian Federal Environment Agency in the year 2000 was signed.
		The Agency also has a role to advise countries on strengthening their systems where there are gaps which need to be filled to support indicator and other reporting.
	www.clarinet.at /networks/eea.htm (977 words)

	EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION
		Scientific quality, novelty and European added value are among the criteria in the first annual Call to the European scientific research community for EUROCORES (European Science Foundation Collaborative Research) theme proposals, made by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in April and which closed on 15 June.
		The INTROP Programme will help European researchers to answer key questions on the prediction of atmospheric fate of novel complex pollutants, on the impact of aerosols on global change, and on understanding and predicting atmospheric composition by offering grants for visits of between 2 weeks and 3 months, or support for the organisation of workshops.
		Strasbourg, 15 June 2005 – European challenges for hydrodynamic modelling in coastal and shelf seas is the focus of the latest report from the European Science Foundation (ESF) Marine Board, released on 6 June at the fourth annual EuroGOOS (Global Ocean Observing System) conference in Brest, France.
	www.esf.org (1267 words)

	EUROPA - Environment - ICZM Homepage
		Most of these layers are freely accessible and will be made downloadable from the European Environment Agency website.
		At the ICZM expert group meeting of 24 November 2004, the European Environment Agency (EEA) launched its work towards an assessment of the European coasts.
		Environment DG funded a study on "Defining, measuring and evaluating the carrying capacity in European Tourism Destinations".
	europa.eu.int /comm/environment/iczm/home.htm (1549 words)

	BBC NEWS Science/Nature Europe's energy use still rising
		The agency, a European Union body, says the latest trends show growing evidence of climate change, on land and at sea.
		The agency's executive director, Professor Jacqueline McGlade, said: "Such figures suggest that managing Europe's natural resources is increasingly important for ensuring the viability of Europe's economic and social capital.
		The EEA's 31 members are the 25 EU states, the three EU candidate countries - Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey - and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/3765851.stm (439 words)

	EUROPA - Agencies - European Environment Agency
		The founding regulation of EEA stipulates that it is open to countries that do not belong to the European Union but share its concern for the environment.
		EEA publishes four distinct series of reports, with Environmental Signals reports being the Agency's main 'brand'.
		The Agency was established by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90 of 7 May 1990 (OJ L 120 of 11 May 1990) amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 933/1999 of 29 April 1999 (OJ L 117 of 5 May 1999).
	europa.eu.int /agencies/eea/index_en.htm (229 words)

	EEA - European Environment Agency on the ManagEnergy Website
		The EEA does not make or enforce European Union environment policy or legislation: this is the responsibility of the European Commission and the other EU institutions.
		The Agency currently has 31 member countries and is the first EU body to open its doors to the 13 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean basin that have applied for membership of the EU.
		The EEA is responsible for coordinating the EIONET.
	www.managenergy.net /actors/A3005.htm (321 words)

	EEA - Det Europæiske Miljøagentur - Hjem
		EEA har til opgave at formidle aktuelle, målrettede, relevante og pålidelige miljøoplysninger.
		Selvom EEA er et EU-organ, er medlemskabet åbent for lande uden for EU, der deler vore målsætninger.
		EEA har nu 31 medlemslande: samtlige 25 EU-medlemsstater, Bulgarien, Island, Liechtenstein, Norge, Rumænien og Tyrkiet.
	local.da.eea.eu.int (269 words)

	ENERO and European Environment Agency
		The EEA European Environment Agency is in charge of providing to the European Commission all information necessary for the establishment and the evolution of the environmental policies.
		Current European data stes on waste were not sufficiently detailes to meet the information required by the EU for setting waste policy.
		The aim of this study was to define the role of EEA on the provision of objective, reliable and comparable information on waste generation and flows.
	www.enero.dk /eea.htm (205 words)

	CER Brussels: EU accession candidates to join European Environment Agency
		Christian Noyer, vice-president of the European Central Bank, said on 17 January that the ability of candidate states to meet the Copenhagen criteria would predetermine, to a large degree, their subsequent preparations to adopt the euro.
		The accession of the candidate states to the EEA will be a practical means of examining the recently debated relationship between the environment and enlargement within the EU.
		In a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 17 January, Sweden's prime minister, Göran Persson, said it was possible to admit new members by the end of next year.
	www.ce-review.org /01/3/eunews3.html (720 words)

	05/29/09 -- European Environment Agency Signals Natural Resource Stress
		In this year's Environmental Signals, the European Environment Agency examines the environmental impacts of households' consumption and tourism, which are covered for the first time, as well as the key transport, energy and agriculture sectors.
		Established by the European Union (EU) in 1990, the agency is the hub of the European Environment Information and Observation Network which takes in some 600 environmental bodies and institutes across Europe.
		European Union emissions of the six Kyoto Protocol greenhouse gases fell by two percent between 1990 and 1998.
	forests.org /archive/europe/euenagen.htm (741 words)

	Improved access to environmental information: The European Environment Agency revamps its Internet gateway
		In the age of information overload, the EEA faces a tough challenge when trying to fulfil its mission of bringing order to the complexity of environmental information and target the relevant information to a wide variety of user groups.
		He emphasized that what the Agency presented today was not the end station, but merely a stop along the way, though representing a solid basis for further work.
		Finally, the EEA executive director pointed to the need to maintain a dialogue with the end users to help further develop the site, and welcomed comments, suggestion or questions to the EEA Webmaster (webmaster@eea.eu.int).
	www.waternunc.com /gb/EuEnAg.htm (912 words)

	Terrestrial
		ETC/TE supports the European Commission and EEA Member States in their attempts to achieve sustainable development and to improve their environment.
		The concept of terrestrial environment relates to the interaction between natural components of the geosphere and biosphere as well as to their interaction with social and economic factors, with special emphasis on the territory in which they are deeply rooted.
		(EEA) in delivering information on the state and trends of the environment to policy-makers and the public.
	terrestrial.eionet.eu.int (229 words)

	Climate change: UNEP.Net, the Environment Network
		European Environment Agency announce that the European Union has reached it target for CO stabilisation.
		Global Environment Outlook 3 presents important data on emissions, the pressures related to climate change, the projected impacts, and the policy responses to climate change at levels ranging from global to local.
		Vital Climate Graphics Africa indicate that temperature rise in Africa corresponds to global temperature rise, and that adverse impacts including extremes, are spread across the diverse environments of Africa, putting a huge proportion of African continent at great risk.
	climatechange.unep.net (603 words)

	EEA Maps and graphs
		map or graph: Water stress in large European river basins, 2000 and 2030
		EEA wants to make these processes transparent and has given them a central place on its web site.
		Analytical results published in indicator factsheets and reports are always represented by either a map, a graph and/or a table.
	dataservice.eea.eu.int /atlas (1073 words)

	EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
		The European Environment Agency, based in Copenhagen, was established in 1990 by a Council Regulation of the European Union.
		The main purpose of the Agency is to produce objective, reliable and comparable information for those concerned with framing, implementing and further developing European environmental policy, and for the wider European public.
		The Regulation laid down a number of tasks for the Agency and prime among these is the establishment and coordination of a network for collecting, processing and analysis of environmental data.
	www.uninova.pt /UNIAGUA/ETC1.html (712 words)

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