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European Environment Agency Annual Management Plan 2010

Congregations Manage Volunteers in Social Outreach. We learned that an estimated 83 percent of the nation’s 380,000 congregations have some kind of social service, community development, or neighborhood organizing project. Although most congregations have social service outreach programs, most are involved as partners or sponsors and therefore do not manage volunteers themselves. However, one in three congregations— an estimated 129,000 such organizations—have responsibility for managing volunteers in social service outreach activities. These congregations are the subject of our study. Size of Congregations Matters. Larger congregations are more likely than smaller ones to have social service outreach activities, and they also are more likely to manage volunteers in them. Two-thirds of congregations with more than 500 active. | E_______c_._______________ European Environment Agency 8 1 European Environment Agency Annual Management Plan 2010 Copenhagen January 2010 1 EEA in brief The European Environment Agency EEA is a specialised agency of the European Union dedicated to providing objective reliable and comparable information on the all aspects of the environment. The aim of the EEA is to ensure that decisionmakers and the general public are kept informed about the state and outlook of the environment. The EEA also provides the necessary independent scientific knowledge and technical support to enable the Community and member countries take appropriate measures to protect and improve the environment as laid down by the Treaty and by successive Community action programmes on the environment and sustainable development. The EEA works in partnership with government departments and agencies international conventions and UN bodies the scientific technical and research communities private sector and civil society. The EEA undertakes a comprehensive range of integrated environmental and thematic assessments. These include a five-yearly state and outlook of the environment report thematic and sectoral assessments analyses of the effectiveness of policy measures forward studies and the impacts of globalization on Europe s environment and resources. The EEA is an important source and custodian of up to date environmental data and indicators and a key provider of environmental knowledge and information services. The European Environment Agency EEA and the European environment information and observation network Eionet were established by EEC Regulation 1210 90 on 7 May 1990 as amended by EC Regulation 933 1999 of 29 April and EC Regulation 1641 2003 of the European Parliament and Council of 22 July 2003 . The decision to locate the Agency in Copenhagen was taken in 1993 and the EEA became operational in 1994. Regulation EC No 401 2009 of the European Parliament and the Council codified the original