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Introduction to the EEA and the EIONET Anna Rita Gentile , European Environment Agency First meeting of the ESBN Digital Soil Mapping working group Miskolc 7-8 April 2005 EEA mission Established by EEC Regulation 1210/1990, amended by EEC Regulation 933/1999, EEA is operational since 1994 “EEA aims to support sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe’s environment, through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy making agents and the public’” EEA members and participating countries IS FI NO SE EE LV Old members LT IE UK NL New members SK Cooperating countries DE BE LU FR PL CZ LI AT CH HU RO SI HR BA YU BG IT PT MK ES AL TR GR CY MT 16/03/2001 EEA main tasks • Make environmental information accessible • Networking – Implement and coordinate the EIONET (European Environmental Observation and Information Network) • Reporting – Prepare regular reports on the state and trends of the environment • Annual budget of approx. 30 Meuro, approx. 130 staff, 5 topic centres EIONET More than 300 national institutions in 31 countries: • • • • National Focal Points European Topic Centres National Reference Centres Main component elements • Members are nominated by countries • Aims to improve capacity building in member states • Improve data flows related to reporting obligations (also moral obligations) • Covers a broad range of environmental issues European Topic Centres • Water • Terrestrial environment • Air and climate change • Biodiversity (new) • Sustainable use of natural resources (new) EEA strategy 2004-2008: Main directions • EEIS – European Environmental Information System (shared, integrated, spatial) • Strengthening of international partnerships • Contribution to streamlining of European reporting (Reportnet tools) • Use of indicators, scenarios, prospective analysis and other tools to support policy assessment • Spatial dimension of environmental problems/regional integrated spatial assessments • Facilitate access to information Nr. of reporting obligations per environmental theme 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Acidification Air Quality Biodiversity Change and Nature Chemicals Climate Change Natural Resources Noise Ozone Depletion Soil EU Convention UN OECD Various other issues Waste Water Source: EEA ROD Current situation: Overlapping data flows The Public and Decision-Makers EC Eurostat DG EEA OECD UNEP Other ETC DG NRC NFP and other National Authorities Current development: Use of common tools (Reportnet) A system of IT tools and business processes, to share with others, in order to improve European environmental reporting by: • Streamlining • Quality improvement • Ensuring Transparency and availability of information reported by countries The future: towards a shared European Environmental Information System (EEIS) International Organisations, ConventionsEuropean Union e.g. UNEP, UNECE, OECD, Basel Conv. EEA, Eurostat Shared EEIS information Shared EIONET information User access shared tools e.g. Reportnet tools Information Infrastructure EECCA countries other EEA countries Member countries Users Policy makers, Env. experts, Media, Informed public Towards a European Spatial Information System: Understanding territorial change • • • • • “what is happening” “why it is happening” “does it matter” “what is being done” “where it is happening” Integrated “spatial” assessments Environmental media Water Air Soil Flora & fauna Transport Fisheries … Sectors Agriculture Example: PRospective Environmental analysis of Land Use Development in Europe: PRELUDE Status to date Scenarios High density of use Medium density of use Low density of use (1) How much? (2) Where? (3) Environmental impacts? SOIL ACTIVITIES IN EEA WORK PROGRAMME 2004-2008: Landscape assessments and understanding territorial change To support the territorial aspects of environmental policies, with specific reference to land use changes in ecologically sensitive areas and soil protection. Specific activities: • Creation of an integrated information system to support thematic and sectorial policies; • Sustainability assessments in European regions for biodiversity and landscapes; • Evaluation of territorial changes in relation to: climate change, desertification, erosion, estensification and intensification of agricultural activities and contamination; • Assessments of marine and coastal ecosystems. EEA-EIONET JRC-ESBN collaboration (output from meeting in Barcelona 15/9/2004) - 1 • Action plan for soil information (EEA lead) • Rationale • Basic reference data sets • Information Services • Output. Report covering: • Information requirement specification • Action plan for completion of technical options for monitoring • Organisational settings for monitoring EEA-EIONET JRC-ESBN collaboration (output from meeting in Barcelona 15/9/2004) - 2 • Digital soil function mapping (JRC lead) • Technical review (state of the art, future needs, technical feasibility) • Capability development (protocol and processes, data assembly, system construction) • Outcome: Report: • Specification for system design • Requirements for DSFM infrastructure EEA-EIONET JRC-ESBN collaboration (output from meeting in Barcelona 15/9/2004) - 3 • Enhancing business as usual (JRC and EEA) • Improving soil data availability and quality • Upgrading EUSIS • Moving to open access Thank you! http://www.eea.eu.int