This database contains over 4,000 chemical, environmental, and regulatory terms, acronyms, definitions and trade names. Some of the items faced within this site concern Environment - glossary - Acronyms - Definitions - Trade - Names. DATABASE by Solutions Software (USA) adopting English language in front of a geographic coverage relating entire World

The European Environment Agency (EEA) was launched by the European Union (EU) in 1993 with a mandate to orchestrate, cross-check and put to strategic use information of relevance to the protection and improvement of Europe's environment. The Agency, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, has a mandate defined by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1210/90 to ensure the supply of objective, reliable and comprehensive information at European level, enabling its member states to take the requisite measures to protect their environment, to assess the result of such measures and to insure that the public is properly informed about the state of the environment. The geographical scope of the Agency's work is not confined to Member States of the EU; membership is open to other countries that share the concerns of the EU and member states and the objectives of the Agency. Current membership includes all 15 EU states, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. The Agency will carry out its tasks in co-operation with the European Information and Observation Network (EIONET). EIONET was set up and is co-ordinated by the Agency. EIONET consists of national networks, organised by the Agency to help it retrieve information, identify special issues and produce efficient and timely information on Europe's environment. The Agency uses not only existing capacities in member states, but co-operates actively with other bodies and international organisations to build synergy and to avoid duplicate efforts. Some of the items faced within this site concern Air quality - Arctic environment - Air and Health- Air Pollution- Climate change in the European Union - Freedom of access to information on the environment - Rivers and lakes - Surface water quality monitoring - Water Resources Problems in Southern Europe. WEB by European Environment Agency (Denmark) adopting English language in front of a geographic coverage relating entire Europe

The Catalogue of Data Sources (CDS) was established in order to provide a locator system on environmental information in Europe. It supplies information on who has what information in Europe, in which form and where the data exists as well as how to get access to it. In other words, the CDS provides metainformation to the users of environmental information and data, helping them to locate and retrieve relevant sources. The primary goal of the CDS is to support the operation of the EEA-EIONET (European Environment Agency - Environmental Information and Observation Network) by providing environmental metainformation To provide global access to the CDS data via the Web WebCDS has been developed. Major requirements were multilingual search and result forms, multilingual retrieval by use of the General European Multilingual Environment Thesaurus (GEMET), portability by independence of platforms (operating system, database management system, and Web server), user friendliness, extensibility, and performance. To fulfil these requirements a Web application using Java and Java-based techniques such as JDBC, RMI, and servlets on the server site, and HTML for the user interface was developed. Some of the items faced within this site concern environmental information - Europe - metainformation - multilingual search - Thesaurus - database. DIRECTORY by European Environment Agency (Germany) adopting Danish - Dutch - English - Finnish - French - German - Greek - Italian - Icelandic - Noorwegian - Portuguese - Spanish - Sweden language in front of a geographic coverage relating entire Europe