EU Member States represented on the LIFE Committee and the European Commission’s LIFE Unit have announced the Best LIFE-Environment Projects 2004-2005. The result of the selection, as approved by the LIFE Committee on 28 July 2005, is the 24 projects featured in this publication.

This is the second review of completed projects funded through the EU’s LIFE-Environment demonstration programme. The objective was to find out which projects were the ‘Best of the Best’ (BoBs) of those projects that completed their final reports before January 2006. This year, following an...

The launch of the LIFE programme (the EUu0092s Financial Instrument of the Environment1) in 1992 provided the EU with an instrument for financing innovative environmental projects not only within the EU, but also in other neighbouring countries through the LIFE-Third Countries component of the...

This new edition to the LIFE-Focus series explores the contribution the LIFE programme has made to sustainable, competitive and secure energy for Europe. It highlights key EU policy actions and developments in this area and provides information and experiences of innovative ways to meet present...

EU Member States represented on the LIFE Committee and the European Commission’s LIFE Unit have announced the Best LIFE-Environment Projects 2004-2005. The result of the selection, as approved by the LIFE Committee on 28 July 2005, is the 24 projects featured in this publication.