The study analysed existing data on three themes (financial, economic and social impacts of floods; potential of SME support on resource efficiency; and relative environmental expenditure) for DG Environment’s input to the European Semester (the annual monitoring cycle of progress on the Europe 2020 strategy).

RPA assisted with the assessment of the relevant environmental, economic and social costs and benefits of extensions to three SPAs, to inform the Impact Assessment.

Evaluation of near harmonisation of chargers for mobile phones and implications for other chargers of small appliances.

RPA provided workshops to improve the economic appraisal capability of the Environment Agency's key National Capital Programme Management Service staff in flood risk management economics.

RPA conducted an assessment of the wider social benefits / impacts and importance of agriculture and the agricultural supply chain in the Anglian Fens as a means to assess the likely damages from changes in flood risk.

RPA was contracted by a consortium of nine companies to co-ordinate the preparation of an application for the authorisation of the continued use of sodium dichromate (EC No.: 234-190-3, CAS No.: 7789-12-0, 10588-01-9) in the manufacture of sodium chlorate in several plants located in Finland, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. For this project, RPA’s long-term partner on REACH Authorisation matters, Forschungs- und Beratungsinstitut Gefahrstoffe GmbH (FoBiG), was sub-contracted for the preparation of the Chemical Safety Report (CSR). The consortium of applicants was managed by ReachCentrum with which RPA and FoBiG collaborated closely for the duration of the project.