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The EEA and the ECHA shall support the Commission to improve the availability and relevance of data, indicators and knowledge, in particular by carrying out the following: gathering, processing and reporting data and evidence with modern digital tools, whilst improving methodologies for data collection and treatment and for developing harmonised indicators; strengthening and providing support to basic research, mapping and monitoring; working towards closing the relevant monitoring data gaps, together with Member States and taking into account the need for systemic change; delivering policy-relevant and systemic analyses, and contributing to implementing policy objectives at Union and national level, including by proposing recommendations to enhance the progress to attain the objectives; integrating data on environmental, health, social and economic impacts, and exploiting fully other available data and services, such as those delivered by Copernicus; contributing to closing critical knowledge gaps on ecological tipping points, while taking into account geographical and ecological differences across regions; developing quantitative and qualitative tools, including foresight and models, which could provide, inter alia, information on potential future system-wide impacts of policies related to environment and climate and on ‘distance to targets’; further improving availability and interoperability of, and access to, data through Union programmes; ensuring transparency and accountability.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.