Background EEA
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Background EEA
•A European Union institution•Established by EU Regulation•Staff: about 80•Budget: ca. 20 Meuro•Seat: Copenhagen
EEA home page: www.eea.eu.int
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The EEA mission
“Through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy making agents and the public, the EEA aims to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe’s environment”
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..serve the countries and the Commission…
Countries Commission
Information from EEA
Policy development
Implementation, compliance
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EEA member and partner countriesEU Member States+ Norway Iceland Liechtenstein
+East Europe, Malta, Cyprus(members in 2001)
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The EEA Envision
ALL TO SUPPORT POLICY ACTION
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Reporting
Assessment
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Main EEA reports
• 1999 : Environment in the EU at the turn of the century (State and Outlook/Scenarios)
• 2000 : Environmental signals, indicator based• 2000/2001: Transport and environment
report • 2001 : next Environmental Signals• 2002 : Europe's Environment : third
Assessment (Kiev report)• 2004 : next State and Outlook report
EIONETEuropean Environmental Information and Observation
Network •National Focal Points•National Reference Centres•European Topic Centres (Air and climate
change; Water; Waste; Nature and Biodiversity; Terrestrial Environment)
•Other institutes
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The European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change (ETC/ACC)
•Established March 2001 for three years•A truly European consortium•Lead organization: RIVM, the Netherlands
(co-lead UBA Germany)•Around 8 manyear/year
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ETC Air and Climate Change consortiumInstitute of public health and environment (RIVM) Netherlands (Lead)
Umweltbundesamt (UBA Berlin) Germany
Umweltbundesamt (UBA Vienna) Austria
Norwegian Air Research Centre (NILU) Norway
EMEP Centres (CIAM/IIASA and MSCW/DNMI) Austria/Norway(Int)Technical University Athens (NTUA) GreeceAristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUT)TNO-MEP Netherlands
AEA Technology United Kingdom
Oeko-institute Germany
Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMU) Slovakia
Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) Czech Republic
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Main objectives for ETC Air and Climate Change
1. To contribute to EEA main reports through assessments on climate change and air pollution (past trends, current state and outlooks);
2. To implement data collection and information systems to deliver indicators for EEA reports and policy support (EUROAIRNET, AIRBASE, CORINAIR) and to work with countries, Commission and international organisations to further streamline information gathering and reporting procedures;
3. To provide support to the EU policy and legislative frameworks CAFE (and AQ Framework Dir) and ECCP (and GHG monitoring Mechanism) and international conventions (CLRTAP and UNFCCC/IPCC);
4. To support countries in their reporting to the Commission and international organisations, and for inclusion in the ETC databases, by providing guidance/guidebooks, tools and by organising workshops.
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Main policy support activitiesEU Legislation ThemeEU European Climate Change Programme CCEU GHG Monitoring Mechanism CCCAFE programme AQ,TAPAQ Framework Directive AQDaughter Directives, Ozone Directive AQNational Emission Ceilings (NEC) Directive AQ, TAPAQ Exchange of Information Decision AQLarge Combustion Plant (LCP) Directive and Solvents Dir. AQDirective on ozone deleting substances and revisions Strat. O3
IPPC Directive and EPER Decision All
International conventions UNFCCC CCUNECE CLRTAP TAP
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ETC/ACC Work Programme 1. Contribute to State-of-Environment reporting,
assessments and environmental outlooks and explore cross-benefits between climate change and air pollution policies
2. Develop indicators for sectoral/environmental reporting, support data reporting and access and help remove duplication
3. Support policy making in EU and conventions 4. Interact with EIONET, organise workshops
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Products and services in 2001 Delivery date
Work package 1. Assessment and EEA reporting
Proposal for an organisational framework for assessments
July
Contribution to Environmental Signals 2002/Kiev report
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Preparations for EU 2004 State and Outlook report
November
Contribution to first EER and next TERM September/December
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Products and services in 2001 Delivery date
Work package 2. Indicators, data flow, databases
1. Core indicator set air pollution/climate change. 2. Feasibility study 2002 report on climate change indicators in Europe
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Regular EIONET priority data flow progress reports; streamlining of reporting
NFP/EIONET meetings
Updates of databases CORINAIR, AIRBASE, MDS and updated EMEP/CORINAIR Guidebook
AE: May, SeptAQ: December
Updates of AQ-DEM and AE-DEM (IDA programme)
June, Dec
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Products and services in 2001 Delivery date
Work package 3a. Add. support to EU/intern. policy frameworks: Climate change
Support to EU Monitoring Mechanism (including Kyoto requirements) and the ECCP programme
Ongoing
Topic report ‘EU and MS greenhouse gas emission trends 1990-1999’
June
Topic report ‘Analysis and comparison of national and EU projections of greenhouse emissions’
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EU UNFCC Greenhouse Gas Inventory (also input to the EU Third UNFCCC Communication
May
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Products and services in 2001 Delivery date
Work package 3b. Add. support to EU/intern. policy frameworks: Air pollution
Support to the CAFE and related EU legislation Ongoing
Topic report ‘Air Quality in Europe’ July
Topic report ‘Air Emissions trends in Europe’ July
EU CLRTAP/NECD annual emission inventory June
Report on ozone in EU summer 2001 October
Support to EU Pollutant Emission Register(IPPC)
Ongoing
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ETC/ACC products related to emissions • Improve data flow between countries, the European
Commission, Eurostat, the Conventions and EEA. Annual joint TFEIP/EIONET workshop (May 2001, Geneva, Switzerland).
• Provide software tools to Member States to fulfil international reporting requirements (CollectER/ReportER/COPERT) http://www.spirit.sk/products/corinair/e_corinair.html enhttp://vergina.eng.auth.gr/mech/lat/copert/copert.htm
• Publish the joint EMEP/CORINAIR Atmospheric Emission Inventory Guidebook http://reports.eea.eu.int/EMEPCORINAIR/
• Prepare the annual EU greenhouse gas inventory and the EC CLRTAP inventory http://themes.eea.eu.int/issues/climate and make emission data available http://service.eea.eu.int/
• From 2003 onwards assist in the collection and dissemination of the European Pollutant Emissions Register (EPER)
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Contributions to CAFE
•Support data flow and data access•Produce air state and outlook reports and
develop indicators•Review sectoral emission projections•Explore air-CC cross-benefits•Link urban air quality to wider
assessment framework•Contribute to health impact studies
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Emissions of acidifying gases
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Spillover effects of climate change policies; acidification and tropospheric ozone policies and primary PM10 measures in the accelerated policy scenario. Source: RIVM (2000)
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O3: Average number of exceedance days in urban areas (8h >110 ug/m3)
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Integrated Assessment
energy transport industry agriculture tourism
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Essential conditions for success
•Cooperation with other international organizations
•Close interaction with stakeholders•Well connected to sectors•Involving accession countries