1. REQ 2012 state of play
Jürgen Förster ESTAT E.3 Environment & Forestry

2. REQ 2012 - the background Official request from DG REGIO (2008)
DG ENV and the EEA consulted
Pilot exercise "Regional Environmental Questionnaire 2010"
Response promising (all MS except DK, FI, SE)
DG REGIO urges ESTAT to continue the REQ

3. REQ 2012 – domains Water (resources, abstractions, use, wastewater…)
Municipal Waste
Energy consumption
Transport
Land use (contaminated sites; residences)
Environmental Expenditure

4. REQ 2012 – coverage, aggregations
EU27 + EFTA + CC + pot. CC
NUTS 2 (NUTS1)
River Basin Districts / Subunits (WFD)

5. REQ 2012 exercise
Pre-filling:  time series from ESTAT database  energy & transport: "artificial" regional data  water: data from EIONET (EEA /ETC)
Timing:  notification early October  deadline (+)

6. REQ 2012 support Workshop (18+19 September)
Continuous hotline
phone:
Expert briefings
Data validation
Elements for publications