Annual Report 1999

" Green Oscar " 1999 The Best Audiovisuals on Europe's Environment for the

GRID-Arendal awarded to

Princes' Award |1

Award Ceremony |2

SoE Cookbook

SoE Sampler

for the multimedia product "State of the Environment Re- ports Sampler CD-ROM and Cookbook". This product in- cludes national SoE reports from 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States, and a "cookbook" providing methodological guidance for developing electronic environmental status reports on the Internet. GRID-Arendal received the award

The Princes' Award is initiated by the European Environ- ment Agency in Copenhagen and named after its patrons, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Felipe of Spain. The ob- jective of the award is to emphasise the importance of public participation in solving Europe's environmental prob- lems and public involvement in the move towards sustain- able development across the continent. All European coun- tries are each year invited to participate. The "Green Oscar" to GRID-Arendal by the EU Commissioner for the environ- ment, Ms. Ritt Bjerregaard, in Copenhagen June 3 1999. The award was handed over

1| www.princeaward.dk 2| www.grida.no/inf/news/news99/news55.htm