There is growing concern across Europe and the globe in relation to the decline of biodiversity and the impact of this decline on our environment, humans, and the economy. Alongside all these initiatives, at EU level, the Environment Council in June 2004 adopted a set of biodiversity indicators based on the first set of indicators adopted earlier in 2004 under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. The Council also urged the European Commission to develop, test and finalise the EU set having regard to its evolving nature. On the Pan-European level, under the UNECE Environment for Europe, the same framework of 16 headline indicators was also adopted by the PEBLDS (Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy) Council in 2005. Subsequently the Streamlining European 2010 Biodiversity Indicators (SEBI 2010) project was set up to oversee implementation of the adopted framework on the Pan-European level. This paper briefly discusses the origins and goals of the SEBI 2010 project, the results and the next steps.