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...

Based on a series of case studies, this study identifies the factors that can influence successful implementation of specific renewable energy technologies in European Union Member States. It aims to facilitate greater use of renewable energy sources and contribute to efforts by the EU and its...

This technical report summarises the software developments performed by the ETC/CDS from the year 1996 to the year 2000. The available instruments form a well tested toolbox for anybody who wants to register environmental information for the purpose of facilitating and improving the access to...

Eutrophication is the enhanced primary production of marine algae due to excessive supply of nutrients from human activities, independent of the natural productivity level of the sea area in question. The main objectives of this report are to evaluate the causes, state and development of...