EEA corporate standards
The standards listed here help EEA and Eionet partners ensure quality, securing consistent practice and recognition.
They help and guide individuals with respect to expectations and tools and methods to use, included templates.
These standards are not static and are revised as technologies and requirements evolve.
EEA welcomes proposals for improvements and alternatives approaches.
Standards for publishing and branding
- The EEA publishing guide
- The EEA writing manual
- EEA product templates
- EEA Zotero guidelines
- Zotero EEA referencing style.csl (referred to on page 8 of the EEA Zotero guidelines)
- Data and metadata requirement guide
- EEA note on plagiarism and copyright
- EEA web design elements
- EEA layout guide for map production
- Brexit Note
- Colours and colour scales to be used by EEA
- EEA corporate design manual
- Data visualisation handbook
- Improved dashboard harmonisation guidelines
- Eionet visuals
- ETC logos
- ETC report templates
- ETC report guidance
- Biodiversity and ecosystems (ETC-BE)
- Climate change adaptation and LULUCF (ETC-CA)
- Resource use and circular economy (ETC-CE)
- Climate change mitigation (ETC-CM)
- Data integration and digitalization (ETC-DI)
- Human health and the environment (ETC-HE)
- Sustainability transitions (ETC-ST)
- ETC PowerPoint templates - NEW from 1 January 2023. Please note the use of photographs in the templates is for illustrative purposes only and it is strongly recommended that the images are replaced with ones relevant to the presented subject. If you use the EEA competition photos -- please see the link to the competition image library below -- you have to use the full copyright information listed under each image.
- Biodiversity and ecosystems (ETC-BE) | PPT template
- Climate change adaptation and LULUCF (ETC-CA) | PPT template
- Resource use and circular economy (ETC-CE) | PPT template
- Climate change mitigation (ETC-CM) | PPT template
- Data integration and digitalization (ETC-DI) | PPT template
- Human health and the environment (ETC-HE) | PPT template
- Sustainability transitions (ETC-ST) | PPT template
- ETC annual communication plan template
- EEA photo competition image library (non-commercial use only; images must be credited with the copyrights listed under each image)
ETC Poster templates - New from February 2023! Posters and design files for posters used at Eionet event in Copenhagen
- Biodiversity and ecosystems (ETC-BE)
- Climate change adaptation and LULUCF (ETC-CA)
- Resource use and circular economy (ETC-CE)
- Climate change mitigation (ETC-CM)
- Data integration and digitalization (ETC-DI)
- Human health and the environment (ETC-HE)
- Sustainability transitions (ETC-ST)
Standards for information technology and data
- Charts Do and Dont's
- EEA data policy
- EEA software development standards
- Guidelines on the EEA Common Workspace (Updated version planned for June 2023)
- GIS in EEA and Eionet
- Guidelines on metadata and archiving of spatial datasets
- Guidelines on publication of web services
- Guidelines on ETC websites