EEA aims to provide the European Union and member states with “objective, reliable and comparable information enabling them to take the requisite measures to protect the environment, to assess the results of such measures, and to ensure that the public is properly informed about the state of the environment”.
Measures to implement this include:
(a) Eionet Network: comprising: National Focal Points; European Topic Centres (focusing on air emissions, air quality,land cover,datasets, inland water, marine/coastal areas, nature conservation, soils, waste); National Reference Centres; Main Component Elements
(b) Corine Programme databases: separate databases covering air pollution, biotypes, water resources, soil erosion risks, important land resources, natural potential vegetation, land cover. See separate entry
(c) Inventory of emissions into the air of major pollutants: summary tables covering SO2, NOx, N20, NH3, NMVOC, CH4, CO, CO2.
WWW site has information on the programme, directories of EIONET sites, EEA Newsletter and full text (or summaries) of some Europe-wide environmental studies. Plans to make databases available online.