In the reporting period LIFE+ has served as an effective tool to implement the priorities set in the 6th Environmental Action Programme (6EAP). [3] The following sections analyse the performance of each intervention.

‘6th EAP’ means the Sixth Community Environment Action Programme laid down by Decision No 1600/2002/EC.

These Community financial instruments do not cover all environmental priorities. There is therefore a need for a Financial Instrument for the Environment (LIFE+) to provide specific support for developing and implementing Community environmental policy and legislation, in particular the objectives of the Sixth Community Environment Action Programme (6th EAP) laid down by Decision No 1600/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 July 2002

The air pollution Strategy is one of seven Thematic Strategies the Commission is required to prepare under the EU’s Sixth Environmental Action Programme (6EAP).

The Sixth Environmental Action Programme (6EAP), which was adopted by the European Parliament and Council in 2002 and runs until 2012, requires the Commisson to prepare Thematic Strategies covering seven areas: air pollution, the marine environment, waste prevention and recycling, sustainable use of resources, soils, pesticides and the urban environment.

TAKES NOTE of the communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament "2003 Environment Policy Review" (EPR), in the light of the new political context of the EU environmental policy since the adoption of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS) in 2001, and CONSIDERS that the EPR could become a key instrument for the monitoring and the evaluation of the implementation of the 6th Environment Action Programme (EAP) and should also contribute to the Spring European Council and the SDS review, i.a. by providing a good basis for the different Council formations in reviewing the implementation of sustainable deve ...[+++]lopment targets;