| dc.description.abstract | The European Commission’s
Communication to the March 2002
Barcelona EU summit, The Lisbon strategy
—making change happen, is an important
milestone on the way to ensuring
sustainable development in Europe.
Reliable and up-to-date information on
progress made towards sustainable
development, and the underlying factors
that influence the way society develops, is
obviously of fundamental importance if
the sustainable development strategy
agreed by the European Council last
year is to deliver real results.
To support the environmental
dimension of the strategy, as well as the
sixth environmental action programme
(6EAP) and the ‘Cardiff process’ of
sectoral environmental integration, the
European Environment Agency, as the
key information provider on
environmental issues at the European
level, has been developing regular
indicator-based reports for several years.
The Agency’s showcase products in this
field are Environmental signals and the
annual TERM report, which tracks
progress in integrating environmental
considerations into the transport sector.
Starting with the 2003 editions, these
reports will also cover in a consistent way
the new EEA member countries in
central and eastern Europe and the
Mediterranean basin. Later this year the
Agency will publish indicator-based
environmental reports following a
similar approach on energy and tourism.
It is also beginning work, together with
the Commission services, on an
indicator-based environmental report on
agriculture. Eurostat is an important
data provider for all these reports. |
