The use of environmental taxes in Europe is widening and more tax bases are being used. The EEA reports on developments in the use and impact of environmental taxes and on progress made with ecological tax reform.

This first edition of Environmental signals marks the beginning of a new period in reporting on the environment for policy-makers and the public by the European Environment Agency. Previous reports such as Europe's environment: the second assessment and Environment in the European Union at the...

This is the summary of a draft report of which publication is expected later this year.

This document is the final report of a study undertaken by the EEA together with its Expert Group on Guidelines and the State of the Environment Reporting in 1999-2000. It lists questions of policy makers and the general public that could be used to set up a state of the environment report or an...

Die vorliegende Analyse faßt die Schlußfolgerungen des ersten auf TERM (Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism)-Indikatoren basierenden Berichts zusammen. Es werden sieben Fragen angesprochen, die von den politischen Entscheidungsträgern in der EU als entscheidende Kriterien betrachtet...

Summary of the Environmental issues series No 12: First indicator-based Term (Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism) report. Contents a description of the TERM incl. process and outputs. Themes: description and selection of 31 indicators benchmarked against a number of policy objectives...

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....

The Land Cover Annual Topic Update 1999 provides an overview of progress made in 1999 on monitoring, data collection, information, assessement and reporting on land cover related environmental issues. Special attention is given to the plans for updating the CORINE land cover (CLC) database and...

This report is about gathering information on the hazards raised by human economic activities and its use in taking action to protect better the environment and the health of the species and ecosystems that are dependent on it. The study aims to contribute to better and more accessible...

Progress Report September 1999 Work programme of WG 3. WG shall elaborate common calculation and measurements methods for noise from road, rail, air traffic.