The discussions mainly focussed on the problems related to the availability of environmental data, legal requirements for the collection, processing, validation and communication of data in accordance with environmental law; and practical improvement needs to build, make the system more efficient, more reliable and more usable in order to provide timely and accurate environmental data to decision makers and the general public.

The meeting gathered representatives from Ministry of Environment and Department of Statistics.

The meeting was held into parts, first part dedicated to discuss the challenges and the second dedicated to recommendation and ways to improve based on result of self-assessment (survey prepared  by Umweltbundesamt).

The meeting was facilitated by Umweltbundesamt (UBA-Austria).

Presentation

List of the participants