Following recent adoption of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Commission is required to identify, from a list of 32 priority substances (PS), the priority hazardous substances (PHS) that are of particular concern for the aquatic environment. Consideration of the socioeconomic...

No-one doubts that industrial activity is essential for the economy, citizensu0092 wellbeing and maintenance of employment. However, data from the European Environment Agency1 show that the state of the environment continues to deteriorate in various fields. Despite remarkable progress made in...

The European Environment Agency (EEA) held a two and a half day senior-level meeting in Copenhagen (13–15 May 2009) on 'A global setting for European environmental monitoring — measuring what we must manage' to explore concrete ideas for building a sustainable and focused observing capacity...

This report contains the proceedings and follow-up to date of the second workshop on contaminated sites held in Dublin in November 1999. The report analyses the results of a test regional data collection and presents a proposal for regional indicators on contaminated sites.

The elements of a new data collection network called Reportnet are described in this report, which reflects a shared concern among the major stakeholders that European environmental reporting needs to be revised. The elements described consist of developing of an environmental information...

Information on the national relevance and data availability of a proposed list of policy-relevant indicators on soil contamination from local and diffuse sources is provided in this report. It constitutes the final output of a working group on soil contamination indicators and analyses the...