This report presents the external evaluation of the European Union's (EU) strategy of cooperation with the West Africa region and of its implementation over the period 2008-2016. Its main objectives are: i) to provide both the EU institutions and a broader audience with an independent and global...

This report is intended to give ministers, senior civil servants, other policy-makers and others with an interest to protect our waters a broad overview of the major water issues in Europe. It represents a distillation of the work undertaken by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and its...

Whether in the area of high sulphur dioxideconcentration, lead emissions or waste water1, environmental legislation in the European Community and the Member States has made decisive progress during the last 30 years. Much still needs to be done however, if we are to pass on a healthy...

Recognising the importance of safeguarding biodiversity, in June 2002 the European Council of Göteborg set a target of halting its decline by 2010. Fulfilling this target has been adopted as one of the key aims of the 6th Community Action Plan for the Environment. The candidate countries have,...

The context for this study is the Bristol Accord that was agreed at the European Ministerial Informal meeting in Bristol, United Kingdom, on 6th-7th December 2005. The report reviews progress across Europe, identifies a selection of case studies and suggests further work is required to elaborate...

Dieses Handbuch soll dabei helfen, die Kenntnis und den Einsatz von EU-Fonds für die Finanzierung von Natura 2000-Maßnahmen zu verbessern. Damit wird ein Beitrag zur Umsetzung von Natura 2000 und letzlich zum Schutz der Biodiversität in Europa geleistet.

Diese Broschüre behandelt Fragen rund um das Management von Natura 2000 in verschiedenen Bereichen der Landnutzung. Außerdem untersucht sie Möglichkeiten der partnerschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit mit diversen Interessengruppen, um die reiche Biodiversität Europas zu schützen und eine...

The Mediterranean basin stretches c.3,800 km east to west from the tip of Portugal to the shores of Lebanon and c.1,000 km north to south from Italy to Morocco and Libya. Within the European Union, the Mediterranean Region encompasses seven Member States either partially (France, Portugal,...

Die kontinentale Region erstreckt sich von Westen nach Osten ausgehend von Zentralfrankreich in einem breiten Band über ein Viertel der Europäischen Union. Im Norden reicht die kontinentale Region bis in den Osten Polens und im Süden bis nach Rumänien. Außerhalb der Europäischen Union...