5 (communication to the Commission of inventory of emissions, discharges, etc.); Art. 6 (information to the Commisssion on transboundary pollution) Regulation No. Purpose A: The Regulation makes no specific mention of the data protection The Directive does not provide for any 401/2009 on the rules. Should EEA process personal data in the framework of the institutionalised framework for information European Regulation, it shall comply with the rules provided in the Data The Regulation established the sharing, but provides that MS shall cooperate Environmental Protection Regulation. European Environment Agency with EEA and contribute to the Network. Agency (EEA) and aims at the setting up More specific provisions for information B: EEA shall provide the Community and the MS with objective, of a European Environment sharing could be envisaged. Legal base: TFEU reliable and comparable information, enabling them to take the Information and Observation Art. 192 requisite measures to protect the environment, to assess the result Network ('the Network'). of such measures and to ensure that the public is properly informed about the state of the environment (Art. 1 (b)) and necessary for Information collected framing and implementing sound and effective environmental The Regulation does not provide policies (Art. 2(b)). These provisions do not constitute a barrier to for the collection of any specific information sharing among user communities. Rather, they set the data sets
5 (communication to the Commission of inventory of emissions, discharges, etc.); Art. 6 (information to the Commisssion on transboundary pollution) Regulation No. 401/2009 on the European Environmental Agency Legal base: TFEU Art. 192 Purpose The Regulation established the European Environment Agency (EEA) and aims at the setting up of a European Environment Information and Observation Network ('the Network'). Information collected The Regulation does not provide for the collection of any specific data sets A: The Regulation makes no specific mention of the data protection rules. Should EEA process personal data in the framework of the Regulation, it shall comply with the rules provided in the Data Protection Regulation. B: EEA shall provide the Community and the MS with objective, reliable and comparable information, enabling them to take the requisite measures to protect the environment, to assess the result of such measures and to ensure that the public is properly informed about the state of the environment (Art. 1 (b)) and necessary for framing and implementing sound and effective environmental policies (Art. 2(b)). These provisions do not constitute a barrier to information sharing among user communities. Rather, they set the The Directive does not provide for any institutionalised framework for information sharing, but provides that MS shall cooperate with EEA and contribute to the Network. More specific provisions for information sharing could be envisaged.
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