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 (Please note an update is coming in 2022)
- The EEA writing manual (Please note an update is coming in 2022)
- 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
- EEA GIS Mapdata and templates
- Indicators (IMS, etc)
- Colours and colour scales to be used by EEA
- EEA corporate design manual (Please note an update is coming in 2023)
- Data visualisation handbook
- Brexit note (internal)
- 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
- Biodiversity and ecosystems (ETC-BE) | PPT template 1 | PPT template 2
- Climate change adaptation and LULUCF (ETC-CA) | PPT template 1 | PPT template 2
- Resource use and circular economy (ETC-CE) | PPT template 1 | PPT template 2
- Climate change mitigation (ETC-CM) | PPT template 1 | PPT template 2
- Data integration and digitalization (ETC-DI) | PPT template 1 | PPT template 2
- Human health and the environment (ETC-HE) | PPT template 1 | PPT template 2
- Sustainability transitions (ETC-ST) | PPT template 1 | PPT template 2
- 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)
Standards for information technology and data
- Charts Do and Dont's
- Data traceability and access policy
- EEA software development standards
- Guidelines on the EEA Common Workspace
- Guidelines on metadata and archiving of spatial datasets
- Guidelines on publication of web services
- Guidelines on ETC websites
- How to manage ETC mailing lists in Eionet forum