EUROPEAN INDICATORS AND BALTIC 21

UBC Commission on Environment, together with Commission of the European Communities, is organising the translation and printing of European Common Indicators to twelve East European languages. The aim of the European Common Indicators is to improve monitoring of progress towards sustainability and to provide objective and comparable information from local authorities across Europe.

At the moment the material is available in the official EU languages. Now indicators' Technical report and Methodology sheets are translated to Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian and Slovenian. In addition Commission on Environment organises the dissemination of the technical report and promotion of the initiative to target groups.

UBC Commission on Environment is also currently starting a feasibility study about European Common Indicators in monitoring Baltic 21 in the cities of Baltic Sea Region. It got recently funding for the study from Nordic Council of Ministers.