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The European Environment Agency in brief presents our role as an agency that supports European environmental policy. It outlines what we work on, our strategic priorities, our key outputs, our key services and publications, and what it is like to work at the EEA.
About the EEA
The European Environment Agency (EEA) is an agency of the European Union. Our task is to provide sound, reliable and independent information on the environment and climate. The regulation establishing the EEA was adopted by the EU in 1990, and the Agency started operations in Copenhagen in 1994. To support policymaking in Europe, we work closely with national and European institutions, in particular the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. Learn more about the EEA here.
Corporate publication no. 01/2024
Title: The European Environment Agency in brief
EN HTML: TH-01-24-013-EN-Q - ISBN: 978-92-9480-689-5 - ISSN: 1977-8449 - doi: 10.2800/5687056
- ↵The European Environment Agency in brief is based on data from the agency’s Consolidated Annual Activity Report 2023, which provides detailed information on every year’s activities, performance and achievements, as well as operational, budgetary and management reporting. It is also informed by data from the Single Programming Document 2024, the EEA-Eionet Strategy and the EEA regulation.