The Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), has involvement in different ongoing global activities related to the INMS objectives, as well as recent activites on a European level that directly link to the INMS activites (e.g. TFRN/EPNB, ESF-NINE/ENA). Evelopment of simpler regional indicators on nitrogen efficiency performance and comparison with more detailed approaches, extending the analysis to improve estimates of full-chain nitrogen use efficency.