<marquage typemarq="italique"/> This article analyses the process of legal formalisation of the European Union?s commitment to sustainable development, both as an internal and external policy objective, which was completed by the Lisbon Treaty. Since the entry into force of this Treaty in 2009, sustainable development...

The 2006 renewed EU Sustainable Development Strategy calls for the European Commission to monitor the progress against the challenges laid out in the Strategy and specifically to draw up a comprehensive set of Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIs). To this end, Eurostat, the Statistical...

In April 2007, the European Commission issued a Communication on the mid-term review of the implementation of the 6th Environmental Action Programme (6EAP) (COM(2007)225). Agreed in 2002, the 6EAP sets out priority objectives to be attained by the EU in the field of environmental policy before...