This, the third of the European Environment Agency's Environmental signals reports - Benchmarking the Millennium, provides an insight into the state of Europe's environment and is targeted at high-level policy makers in EEA member countries and the European Union, as well as the wider public....

This report presents a pan-European overview of the geographical distribution, and severity of adverse effects, of excessive anthropogenic inputs of nutrients in European ecosystems.

The Mediterranean Sea is oligotrophic: it is rich in oxygen and poor in nutrients. Oligotrophy increases from west to east. The fauna and flora is one of the species richest of the world and there is a high rate of endemism. Introduced alien species are increasing in the eastern basin. Compared...

This report is designed in order to help Copert III users to produce in a short time a complete annual national emission data set from road transport (and off road machinery). The manual is divided in several chapters. The different chapters include all information needed to build a complete...

This report outlines the objectives and results of the European Topic Centre on Waste during 1999.

Over the year, ETC on Nature Conservation has continued to develop the European nature information system UNIS. The topic centre has also provided support to the NATURA 2000 network and to the EEA's reporting activities.

This report presents a summary of the activities and products of the Topic Centre on Air Emissions in 1999. The Topic Centre (ETC/AE) was appointed in December 1994 by EEA to act as a centre of expertise on air emissions for use by the Agency in support of its mission.

This report is based upon data submitted to the European Commission under Directive 92/72/EEC on air pollution by ozone. In this topic report, the annual 1998 and summer 1999 reports as presented to the Commission are reproduced here in an updated version. New information which became available...

This report addresses the use of benchmarking as a management tool in the context of local authority actions towards sustainability management. The growing interest at the European policy-making level in stimulating the use of sustainability management tools and exchange of best practices among...