Under the new editorship of Andrew Farmer, the Manual is an essential reference guide for all those who need to keep pace with EU environmental policy. We hope that many of you will be able to join us to celebrate and to find out more about the Manual's new pan-European format.

With our new publishers, Earthscan, we are confident that the Manual's new format will make it even more useful to readers from the EU Member States and beyond. The Manual acts as a collective history of EU environmental policy, consolidating the extensive information and intelligence gathered by the Institute. Building on the original Manual of Environmental Policy: The EU and Britain, edited by Nigel Haigh and first published in 1992, the new Manual has been refocused to give it a broader pan-European perspective. In addition, as well as continuing in print format it will now be available online with enhanced search functions. The text also provides direct links to all relevant EU texts, offers analysis of important cases brought to the European Court of Justice, and highlights key implementation issues.

The chapters include an introduction to the EU institutions, policy processes and instruments used in environmental policy making; information on over 500 individual Directives, Decisions and Regulations; an analysis of the relationship between environment-specific policy and other EU policy fields; and a summary of forthcoming policy measures, as well as a comprehensive index of current environmental legislation.

The Manual will be launched in the early evening of 23 September in our Brussels office. For more details, including on how to subscribe, please visit: www.earthscan.co.uk/meep.

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