EEA, Core set and Integration indicators

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EEA, Core set and Integration indicators
Jock Martin, European Environment Agency
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Putting sustainable development in the fast
trackThe 'three corridors model'

• European Council (Spring Councils)
• Strategy for Sustainable Development
  (presented by EC and launched at Gothenburg
  Summit. To be brought to Rio10 UN conference,
  Johannesburg, September 2002 )
• Socio-economic agenda

Sectoral indicators
Structural indicators
Environmental indicators

• ECOFIN Council
• Lisbon Agenda. Socio-economic policies
• 'Synthesis Report' Structural Indicators to
  Barcelona Summit

• Sectoral Councils (Agriculture, Energy,
  Transport)
• Sectoral Strategies Action Programme
• Progress for Barcelona Summit. Headline sectoral
  Indicators for Synthesis Report)

• Environment Council
• Environmental Action Plan - 6EAP
• specific thematic/plans
• Headline Environmental sustainability indicators
  for Synthesis Report

Integrated (consistent) Monitoring and
Reporting Synthesis Report. Sectoral and
Environmental Reports (with indicators)
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Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism
(TERM)

• Initiated on request of the joint
  Transport/Environment Council and Cardiff Summit
• A cooperation between EEA, Eurostat, DG TREN, DG
  ENV
• Regular indicator-based monitoring of progress of
  integration of transport and environment policies
  
• TERM also aims to streamline existing data
  systems, to put data to good use, and
• to help the transport sector become both more
  eco-efficient and more accountable

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Monitoring transport and environment integration
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7 policy questions
1. Is the environmental performance of the
transport sector improving? 2. Are we getting
better at managing transport demand and at
improving the modal split? 3. Are spatial and
transport planning becoming better coordinated so
as to match transport demand to the needs of
access? 4. Are we optimising the use of existing
transport infrastructure capacity and moving
towards a better-balanced intermodal transport
system? 5. Are we moving towards a fairer and
more efficient pricing system, which ensures that
external costs are internalised? 6. How rapidly
are improved technologies being implemented and
how efficiently are vehicles being used? 7. How
effectively are environmental management and
monitoring tools being used to support policy and
decision-making?
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Defining indicators

• Group 1 Environmental consequences of transport
• Group 2 Transport demand
• Group 3 Spatial planning
• Group 4 Infrastructure
• Group 5 Pricing
• Group 6 Technology
• Group 7 Integration

• TERM 2000 Are we moving in the right direction?
  Indicators on transport and environmental
  integration in the EU (27 indicators)
• TERM 2001 Indicators tracking transport and
  environment integration in the European Union (33
  indicators)
• TERM 2002 Paving the way for EU enlargement -
  Indicators of transport and environment
  integration (27 indicators)
• TERM 2003 There will be no report but
  approximately 25 indicators should be soon
  available from the EEA website.
• TERM 2004 Expected publication end of 2004.
  Approximately 35 indicators will be covered some
  of which will be hereafter updated every two
  years.

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Energy and environment policy questions

• Is the use of energy having less impact on the
  environment?
• Are we using less energy?
• How rapidly is energy efficiency increasing?
• Are we switching to less-polluting fuels?
• How rapidly are renewable energy technologies
  being implemented?
• Are we moving towards a pricing system that
  better incorporates environmental costs?
• Around 25 indicators are currently used to answer
  these questions.

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Policy context
AGRICULTURE IRENA Operation
(Indicator Reporting on the Integration of
Environmental Concerns into Agriculture Policy)

• Cardiff process on policy integration
• MoU on development of AE indicators between DG
  Agriculture, DG Environment, Eurostat, Joint
  Research Centre and European Environment Agency
• Understanding the links between Agriculture
  Environment in EU-15 (NUTS)
• Indicator lists in COM(2000) 20 COM(2001) 144

The IRENA Operation aims to provide the following
deliverables to the Commission by the end of 2004

• 35 agri-environmental indicator fact sheets
  supported by on-line Data Service,
• Indicator report providing an integrated
  environmental analysis based on those 35
  agri-environmental indicators for EU-15, and,
• Indicator-based assessment on the integration of
  environmental concerns into agriculture policy.

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On the web

• European Environment Agency (EEA)
• http//www.eea.eu.int/
• EUROSTAT
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/
• Transport and TERM
• http//themes.eea.eu.int/Sectors_and_activities/t
  ransport
• Energy and environment
• http//themes.eea.eu.int/Sectors_and_activities/e
  nergy
• Agriculture and IRENA
• http//themes.eea.eu.int/Sectors_and_activities/a
  griculture

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Scope of EEA core set of indicators
Topic
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List of proposed EEA Core set of indicators 2004
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List of proposed EEA Core set of indicators 2004
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List of proposed EEA Core set of indicators 2004
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EEA Core set of indicatorsCriteria for indicator
selectionThe indicators in the core set should
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EEA Core set of indicatorsCriteria for indicator
selectionThe indicators in the core set should
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EEA Core set of indicatorsCriteria for indicator
selectionThe indicators in the core set should
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EEA Core set of indicatorsCriteria for
indicator selectionThe indicators in the core
set should
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EEA Core set of indicatorsCriteria for indicator
selection
1. Policy relevance is checked by policy
questions linked to policy documents and by
results of countries consultation. 2. Progress
toward the targets is checked by information in
policy documents. If targets are not available
than thresholds could be used. 3. Available and
routinely collected data are checked through
reporting obligations of the countries. It
provides information on linkage of the indicator
to data which should be available. This criteria
support streamlining of the data flows. If data
are not part of reporting obligation in agreement
with countries could be decided to include
indicator anyway and/or to plan data collection .
It ensure also that indicator is updated
regularly. 4. and 5. Space and temporal coverage
shows actual coverage of reported data and in
relation to demands from reporting obligations.
On the bases of this quality of indicator can be
assessed. If coverage is not sufficient indicator
cant be part of core set. Even if indicator is
once included and non-reporting from countries
provides bad quality of indicator, it can be
excluded. It should motivate countries on
reporting. 6. National scale and
representativnes of data that support indicator
will enable countries benchmarking (very highly
aggregated indicators, global indicators or
indicators where national data dont provide
appropriate information for the country-either
due to geographical coverage or bad quality of
data, cant be used for countries benchmarking).
For this reason countries should also agree on
data sources used for calculation of indicators.
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EEA Core set of indicatorsCriteria for indicator
selection
7. Understandability of indicators is provided by
clear definition of indicator (with unites) and
appropriate presentation of the indicator.
Contradictory messages shouldnt occur
(crosschecking across Core set is needed) but
when it happens they should be explained. 8. If
the indicator is methodologically well founded
can be shown by description of methodology used,
formula used, stated scientific references for
this and if indicator is used in other indicator
initiatives also. 9. Topics covered and
priorities will be depended on the EEA management
plan and will frame the core set as whole and
support annual update of it. 10. Timeliness of
indicator should enable for core set indicators
to be available 6 months after collection of the
data. It is quality criteria, which will be
checked later after approval of Core set through
Indicator management system. 11. Well documented
and qualitative indicators are defined by
documentation available for indicators
(obligatory fields will be defined), regularly
update and management. It will be supported also
by developed indicator management system, which
will provide transparency and bases for better
management of the process for indicator
production and publishing.