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The 2nd European Summer School on Soil Survey was organized by the Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy, 12-16 July 2004. The objective of the summer school was to provide specific training required for the future development of the European Soil Information System (EUSIS) and information linked to the implementation of the forthcoming EU Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection.

Ce rapport, qui fait le bilan du développement de l'eTravail en Europe, témoigne des progrès accomplis pendant la nouvelle phase de coopération européenne dans le cadre de sa transition vers une économie numérique basée sur la connaissance. Ce rapport est aussi le résultat de l'effort conjugué d'un grand nombre de personnes en Europe. Cette version française soutiendra la 9ième Assemblée européenne sur les nouvelles méthodes de travail, qui se...

Cette deuxième édition des Chiffres clés sur la santé répond à la demande croissante de la politique communautaire de la santé, qui souhaite disposer d'un ensemble de données sur la santé et d'indicateurs qui soient complets, cohérents et comparables au niveau international. Cette demande s'exprime dans le nouveau programme d'action communautaire dans le domaine de la santé publique (2003-2008) adopté par le Parlement européen et le Conseil le...

After the first three calls for proposals, over 70 multidisciplinary pan-European research projects dealing with environment and health issues have been funded by the European Commission's Research and Innovation Directorate-General in the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007-2013). All the projects are still ongoing. Volume 1 comprises the first three call...

This study presents the application of satellite techniques to derive marine phytoplankton primary production. A model is described, that gives a complete representation of the light field in the water column. The distribution of biomass and light are then combined at each depth for estimating the amount of carbon fixed through photosynthesis. Two other primary production models are implemented to serve as reference standards, and the three mo...

The EU regulations are restrictive with regard to solid residues and waste management. Research efforts to develop satisfying solutions are thus necessary. The GEOASH project aims, on one hand, at producing new geopolymeric matrixes using the advantageous properties of fine particles extracted from (co)-combustion fly ashes for the long-term stabilisation of inorganic hazardous wastes and, on the other, at predicting technologies for the recyc...

The water framework directive has given new emphasis to the protection of the ecological status of receiving waters, as well as their chemical status. This emphasis on ecological quality is the principal driver for the TREES project, which is focused on both the toxicity of steel industry effluents and the reduction of this toxicity by innovative treatment techniques. Traditionally, the impact of iron and steel industry streams on the aquatic ...

La conférence "Technologies convergentes pour une Europe plurielle", qui s'est déroulée les 14 et 15 septembre 2004 à Bruxelles, marque une étape importante dans l'étude des retombées et des opportunités de la "nouvelle vague technologique". Le point de départ de la conférence fut le rapport "Converging Technologies - Shaping the Future of European Societies", publié par un groupe de 25 experts européens appartenant à des disciplines aussi div...

This report presents the preliminary results from a (Q)SAR investigation of the acute toxicity to fish (fathead minnow) for a dataset of phthalate esters. A chemical set of 341 phthalates was compiled by using different searching engines. Their acute toxicity to fathead minnow was calculated with the ECOSAR and TOPKAT software. A good correlation between the predictions from the two programs was established (r2 = 0.81). The chemicals were clas...

Each year the Commission publishes an Agricultural Annual Report on the agricultural situation in the European Union. A large part of the report is devoted to statistical information on Community agriculture. This is drawn up on the basis of information from Eurostat and data collected by the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development. Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development also devotes a special annual public...

A study to perform an uncertainty analysis of the European accident consequence assessment system, Cosyma, has been carried out under contract to the European Commission. The study involved a series of analysis of the uncertainty in different sections of the system, followed by a final analysis of the uncertainty in the whole system. The overall aims of the study can be summarised as: - to formulate a state-of-the-art expert judgment methodolo...

Europe has a distinguished history of environmental research and hosts many of the world's leading researchers in the environmental field. Environmental concerns have been on the policy agenda since the European Comunities were created in 1957. The International Geophysical Year (IGY) was launched in the same year as a first attempt to coordinate global measurements of the Earth, the oceans, the atmosphere and the sun. It also pointed out for ...

When plant species were domesticated some 10 000 years ago, they still carried with them the myriad of characteristics and defences which typically make wild plants adaptable to their environment and resilient to challenges such as drought, pest and disease attack. As peoples started to migrate their plants migrated with them and underwent a selection process as they were exposed to new environments. Sometimes dierent species were valued for a...

This report describes the certification of the equivalent spherical diameters of silica nanoparticles suspended in aqueous solution, Certified Reference Material (CRM) ERM-FD100®. The CRM has been certified by the EuropeanCommission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM), Geel, BE. The intended use of this ERM-FD100 is to check the performance of instruments and methods that determine theparticle diam...

The second European Commission Cluster URLs Seminar (Club of Underground Storage, TEsting and Research facilities for radioactive waste disposal) was held at the Belgian nuclear research centre in Mol, Belgium on 27 and 28 September 2001. This event was the second in the series. A first seminar on 'in situ testing in underground research laboratories for radioactives waste' was held in Alden Biesen, Belgium, on 10 and 11 December 1997, see EUR...

The C2H upgrade project developed a new process for upgrading high moisture low rank brown coals yielding two valuable products: - a H2-rich fuel gas which can be used for high efficient power generation in a combined cycle or as a natural gas substitute, - a pre-calcined feed for a cement clinker kiln consisting of CaO, CaSO4 and coal ash. The C2H upgrade process consists of two core reactors: (i) a steam gasifer with in situ CO2 capture by C...

Every nation State having nuclear activities has legislation designed to ensure that the nuclear material on their territory is protected and that the material is only used for approved purposes. This has the consequence that States insist on a high quality of accountancy of all their nuclear materials. The objective of nuclear materials accountancy is to ensure that the location of all NM is precisely known and in particular to ensure that th...

The EU RTD activities in the field of nuclear fission safety (1994-98) included a number of multi-partner projects in Area B.3 'Reactor safety/severe accident : source term', which were grouped in a cluster known as 'ST', composed of 12 projects (eight 'shared-cost' and four 'concerted' actions) in which several organisations representing research centres, universities, regulators, utilities and vendors were involved. The total cost of these p...