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News from May 2006

• The role of forestry in UK rural development programmes

  A range of forestry measures feature in the new European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), and IEEP was asked by the Land Use Policy Group (LUPG) to explore the potential for using these ...

• The environmental contribution of the Leader + initiative in the UK

  IEEP and CCRU have recently completed one of the first studies in the EU to evaluate the environmental impacts of the Leader+ initiative. The study also looked at the role Leader can play in the new European ...

• Applying OMC to Environment Policy – What are the Options?

  This report investigates the potential options for applying the open method of coordination (OMC) to EU environment policy, given the growing feeling that traditional approaches to policy are not always ...

• Using Market Based Instruments for European Environment Policy

  The European Environment Agency (EEA) has recently released two reports on the development of market based instruments across Europe. Both reports are mainly based on work from a team led by IEEP, which ...

• El Anzuelo Volume 16: Focus on IUU Fishing

  The Spring 2006 edition of El Anzuelo focuses on Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported fishing following the conclusion of the High Seas Task Force report. Contributors include Joe Borg (European Commissioner ...

• Paper on the Proposed Marine Strategy Directive Published

  Volume 12 of the Journal of International Maritime Law contains a paper by IEEP's Andrew Farmer on the proposed EU marine strategy Directive, including details of its contents and development and how it ...

• Press Release: Leader or Laggard? Report on UK Climate Change Policy released

  The UK Government's recently launched Climate Change Programme is scrutinised in a new report. Internationally the UK has been a leader but on domestic policy it has been a laggard, falling short in the ...

• Promoting the use of marine protected areas in the UK and Europe

  IEEP has launched a project aiming to promote the use of marine protected areas (MPAs) in UK and European fisheries and marine environment policies. The two-year project, running from 2006 to 2008, is ...

• Press Release: Report on implementation of 6EAP

  The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) has today released a report prepared by IEEP on the implementation of the EU's 6th Environmental Action Programme (6EAP). Agreed in 2002, the 6EAP sets out priority ...

• Conference on simplification of environmental regulation

  The European Commission is hosting a conference on 22 June in Brussels examining best practices in the Member States of initiatives which will streamline and simplify environment-related regulatory requirements ...

• IEEP's analysis makes the news

  Analysis undertaken by IEEP on behalf of the European transport and environment NGO T&E has revealed the slow progress of the carmakers' associations on their Voluntary Agreements for CO2 reduction with ...