1. SOER 2015 Project Plan Meeting on Environmental Assessments 16-17April 2013 Integrated Environmental Assessments (Thomas Henrichs)

2. Regulation No 401/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the EEA and Eionet – Art 2 (k) SOER – State and Outlook of the Environment Report: the mandate The tasks of the Agency shall be […] to publish a report on the state of, trends in and prospects for the environment every five years, supplemented by indicator reports focusing upon specific issues;

3. SOER […] publish a report on the state of, trends in and prospects for the environment every five years 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 1998 2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2004 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2010 2013 - report (151 pp) + summary SOER 1995 - addresses 5 EAP targets - focus on sectoral integration - big report (446 pp) + summary SOER 1999 - addresses environmental trends - focus on DPSIR, link between issues - bigger report (569 pp, Part A, B & C) SOER 2005 - addresses air, water, land - focus on DPSIR, core set of indicators - several reports (Parts A, B, C + Synthesis) SOER 2010 - addresses 6EAP priority areas - focus on systemic challenges...

4. The SOER assessment context: addressing different scales and themes SOER 2010 Sub-national level Country level (i.e. EEA member & coop. countries) European level (i.e. EEA member & cooperating countries) Global level (i.e. pan-European & global) ‘State of Environment‘ Assessments Land Water Air... Thematic Assessments SOER 2010 Part B – European level Part C – Country level Synthesis report Part A – Global level

5. SOER 2015 The path from SOER 2010 to SOER 2015 2010 20152011201220132014 Reflecting Planning AssessingProducing Content & coverage Structure & approach Indicators & types of information Process & network

6. SOER 2015 The path from SOER 2010 to SOER 2015 2010 20152011201220132014 Reflecting Planning AssessingProducing Project Plan Why? – approach, background, … What? – products, process, … Who? & when? – timeline, …

7. SOER 2015 More of the same, or something different?... Both! What should stay similar? Maintain familiar structure, Parts A (global), B (Europe), Part C (national), Synthesis Continue the ‘narrative‘, i.e. analysis of systemic challenges, see SOER 2010 What might be different? More stakeholder involvement, especially in conclusions and reflection on future ‘prospects‘ Less duplication of assessments, more focus on, and refering to, existing indicators and reports Publish a credible and reliable, relevant and timely, legitimate and transparent, targeted and accessible assessment in 2015. Aim

8. SOER 2015 A suite of product(s): short briefs + up-to-date indicators FLISCSI & IMSSENSE ABC GMT fichesthematic fichescountry fiches forward-looking indicators regular EEA indicators country-level indicators SYN Synthesis report 3 indicator reports & stakeholder workshop 2012 2013 2014 Synthesis & Derivatives Global Megatrends (GMT) Thematic SOE summaries Country-level SOE summaries Signals 2015 and other derivatives ? ? Reportnet (incl. PDF,...) Eionet (incl. SERIS) FLIS GMES CDR SERIS ROD Reportnet ETDS AoA GEMET SENSE IMS SENSE Data Centres SDI GCI EyeonEarth Discomap SOER Assessments SOER Online

9. SOER 2015 Part C – Country-level SOER assessment and information SENSE C country fiches country-level indicators Country-level SOE summaries SOER online SOER assessments Eionet (incl. SERIS) Eionet & Reportnet Country fiches (one – and only one – per country) 4 page summaries of national SOE Report drafted by countries (NFP or NRC-SOE) plus: links to national SOE reports via SERIS 1 Country comparison fiches (1 per agreed theme) 4 page each, based on EEA indicators (CSI) drafted by EEA plus: link to country level view using SENSE 2 3 National-level indicators (voluntary) online link between several European and country level indicators via SENSE maintained jointly by EEA and Eionet

10. SOER 2015 The path from SOER 2010 to SOER 2015 2010 20152011201220132014 Reflecting Planning Assessing Producing Discuss with EEA stakeholders (Q1) SOER 2015 Implementation Plan (Q2) START WORK (Q3)

11. SOER 2015 - relationship with pan-European environmental reporting and assessments EEA has been put in charge of developing a ‘Regular Process’ for environmental reporting across the pan-European region (accompanied by a decision to gradually extend SEIS to these countries to support this). This includes activities in the UNECE European region supporting the development of indicators and national SOE reports, and the application of the Assessment of Assessments approach. There is thus an opportunity to use the SOER 2015 approaches to help frame and inform this. For example, using SERIS, SENSE, and/or Part C. This extension attempt will not be part of SOER 2015 itself – yet a complementary activity (i.e. to ensure necessary flexibility and focus).

12. Thank you!