Milieu’s experts have written numerous reports and contributed to many publications on environmental policy and law. This web page provides a partial list.
Just published
- The European Environment Agency (EEA) has recently published three reports to which Milieu contributed under its Framework Contract on policy analysis:
- Tony Zamparutti, working with Bill Sheate from Collingwood Environmental Planning and Elena Santer‑Veligosh from UNEP/GRIDArendal, authored a report looking at the forces shaping the future of the environment in the Western Balkans, in particular at the role of consumption and production patterns. Environmental trends and perspectives in the Western Balkans: future production and consumption patterns: http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/western-balkans
- In the report Land in Europe: prices, taxes and use patterns,Tony Zamparutti (project leader) and Eduard Interwies from InterSus - Sustainability Services (main author) analysed land‑use trends, such as urban sprawl and land abandonment, which are jeopardising the future for sustainable land use: http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/land-in-europe
- Tony also contributed to the report on The territorial dimension of environmental sustainability - Potential territorial indicators to support the environmentaldimension of territorial cohesion, authored by Ric Eales from Collingwood Environmental Planning, which undertakes an analysis of the environmental dimensions of territorial cohesion and of related EU policies: http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/the-territorial-dimension-of-environmental- sustainability
- The last Water Notes prepared by Milieu for DG Environment have been published now. Please refer to our publication site for more details: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/water-framework/index_en.html
- The final report for the “Study concerning the report on the application and effectiveness of the EIA Directive” has now been published on the DG Environment website: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eia/home.htm
- Milieu’s analysis of the transposition of “Directive 2004/38/EC on the right of EU citizens and their family members to move and reside freely within the EU” has been published on the website of DG JLS. The publication includes 27 national reports drafted by our country experts as well as the Milieu team’s horizontal analysis of the situation within the EU.
- We are also proud to announce the distribution of the Welcome Package prepared by Milieu on the EUs public health policy for the new Members of the European Parliament. The package was distributed to all MEPs on an USB stick which also included similar welcome packages on the EUs environment and feed safety policies prepared by other contractors.
- Milieu worked on a report for the EEA assessing the effectiveness of EU cohesion funds, used to reduce the gap between rich and poor regions of the EU – towards achieving environmental goals in areas including biodiversity and renewable energy. In Austria, Italy and Spain were case study countries. The whole report is available under: http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/territorial-cohesion-2009/
Published in 2009
- Milieu, working with Collingwood Environmental Planning and Ecosphere Lda, carried out an assessment for the European Environment Agency of EU Cohesion spending on environmental protection. The analysis focused on three areas: wastewater treatment, renewable energy and biodiversity protection.. EEA published the results in its new report, Effectiveness of EU cohesion spending on the environment
(link: http://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/effectiveness-of-eu-cohesion-spending-on-the-environment)
- Milieu led a project for the European Parliament to provide an in-depth analysis of the implementation of the provisions of Article 6 of Directive 92/43/EEC (the Habitats Directive). The Habitats Directive is the framework Directive for the EU’s Natura 2000 system of nature protection. The study highlighted the possible difficulties that Member States are experiencing in implementing these measures, including cases of infringement where the European Commission has intervened to ensure efficient implementation of the Directive. In particular, it reviewed the experiences of Member States in implementing each of the elements of Article 6, including the Article 6(3) requirement for appropriate assessment if there is a probability that a plan or project will have a significant effect on a particular Natura 2000 site. The study also identified any best practices and developed recommendations for a better implementation of the Directive. The final report can be found under :
Published in 2008
- Milieu has written a series of Water information notes for the European Commission (DG Environment). These notes explain key technical issues for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (layout by WRc of the UK):
- Claire Dupont and Nathy Rass-Masson published their article, “Sanctions environnementales en France” in the Rivista giuridica dell’ambiente (Giuffré editore). The print version contains the Italian translation.
- Milieu has written, "The study on health benefits with respect to the cut-off criteria for pesticides" This study was requested by the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?file=22471
Published in 2007
- Milieu completed the Review of the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 2037/2000 on substances that deplete the ozone layer for the European Commission (DG Environment), in cooperation with Ecosphere Lda. DG Environment has posted our reports for stakeholder comments:
- Milieu and Collingwood Environmental Planners of London prepared a research report on the driving forces of future environmental change, for the European Environment Agency and the Agency’s Scientific Committee.
- Milieu experts contributed research and co-authored EEA’s report on The pan-European environment: glimpses into an uncertain future, also in co-operation with Collingwood:
Our older publications
Study on the Enforcement of the EU Wildlife Trade Regulations in the EU-25, with Orbicon and ViSKon (2006)
Burning of tallow, with Ecolas (2006)
GHS annexes (2005)
In 2004, the journal International Environmental Agreements (Kluwer) published an article by Tatiana R. Zaharchenko and Gretta Goldenman based on their experiences in working to implement the Aarhus Convention in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus. It describes how a number of long-standing governance traditions of the EECCA countries will need to be changed in order to implement the Aarhus Convention’s provisions on transparency and accountability in environmental governance.
Assessment of the effectiveness of European air quality policies and measures, with CCAP and TNO (2004)
(Transparency and Public Participation)
(Recommendations and Lessons Learned)
Study on measures other than criminal ones in cases where environmental Community law has not been respected in the EU Member States (2004)
Measures other than criminal ones in cases where environmental Community Law has not been respected in a few Candidate countries (2004)
Progress monitoring report on transposition and implementation of EU directives in Latvia (2003)
Study on Criminal Penalties in a Few Candidate Countries’ Environmental Law (2003)
Milieu’s 2003 report for the European Parliament analysed the environment-related consequences of the next EU enlargement. It reviews common problems facing the accession countries in each environmental sector and includes an analysis of each accession country with respect to transposition and implementation of the EU environmental acquis.
The Questions & Answers and the memo that Milieu prepared for Europa on "The Directive on Dangerous Substances" is on the Europa webpage (at the bottom of the page). http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/dansub/home_en.htm
