7 Annex European Environment Agency (Copenhagen) Competences and activities Environment policy Areas of Union competence deriving from the Treaty (Article 191 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) Competences of the Agency (Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/1990) Tasks - To establish, in cooperation with the Member States, and coordinate the European Environment Information and Observation Network. - To provide the Union and the Member States with the objective information necessary for framing and implementing sound and effective environmental policies. - To assist the monitoring of environmental measures through appropriate support for reporting requirements. - To advise individual Member States on the development, establishment and expansion of their systems for the monitoring of environmental measures. - To record, collate and assess data on the state of the environment, to report on the quality of and pressures on the environment within the territory of the Union, to provide uniform assessment criteria for environmental data to be applied in all Member States and to develop further and maintain a reference centre of information on the environment. - To help ensure that environmental data at European level are comparable and, if necessary, to encourage by appropriate means improved harmonisation of methods of measurement. - To promote the incorporation of European environmental data into international environment monitoring programmes. - To publish a report on the state of, trends in and prospects for the environment every five years, supplemented by indicator reports focussing upon specific issues. - To stimulate the development of environmental forecasting techniques, exchanges of information on technologies for preventing or reducing damage to the environment, methods of assessing the costs of damage to the environment and the costs of environmental preventive, protection and restoration policies. - To ensure the broad dissemination of reliable and comparable environmental information, in particular on the state of the environment, to the general public and, to this end, to promote use of new telematics technology for this purpose. - To cooperate actively with other union bodies and programmes and other international bodies and in areas of common interest with those institutions in countries which are not members of the Union, taking account of the need to avoid duplication of effort. - To support the Commission in the process of exchange of information on the development of environmental assessment methodologies and best practice and in the diffusion of information on the results of relevant environmental research and in a form which can best assist policy development. Union policy on the environment shall contribute to pursuit [...] the objectives of preserving, protecting and improving the quality of the environment, protecting human health, prudent and rational utilisation of natural resources, promoting measures at international level to deal with regional or worldwide environmental problems, and in particular combating climate change. 
7 Bilaga Unionens behörighetsområde enligt fördraget (Artikel 191 i EUF-fördraget) Byråns behörighet (Rådets förordning (EEG) nr 1210/90) Europeiska miljöbyrån (Köpenhamn) Behörighet och verksamhet Miljöpolitik Unionens miljöpolitik ska bidra till att följande mål uppfylls [...] att bevara, skydda och förbättra miljön, att skydda människors hälsa, att utnyttja naturresurserna varsamt och rationellt och att främja åtgärder på internationell nivå för att lösa regionala eller globala miljöproblem, särskilt för att bekämpa klimatförändringen.