Domingo Jiménez-Beltrán receives the "Twelve Stars for the Environment" Award

The EEB, a federation of 134 non-governmental environmental organisations across Europe, presented the award on 10 October in recognition of Mr Jiménez-Beltrán's "exceptional work on behalf of Europe's environment and sustainable development."

Mr Jiménez-Beltrán, Executive Director from the EEA's start of operations in 1994 until May 2002, accepted the award in the name of the EEA and its network "as a recognition of the contribution of the European Environment Agency and its staff to the general cause of the environment and sustainable development." EEB press release