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Although the number of adaptation policies in place across Europe has significantly increased in the last five years, implementing adaptation can be regarded as still in an early phase (EEA, 2013). However, the results from the self-assessment survey illustrate that those eight countries (i.e. Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Switzerland, Spain and the UK) considering themselves in an advanced stage in the policy cycle (i.e. implementation or monitoring & evaluation) also have an adaptation policy (NAS and NAP) adopted and show a higher activity level for implementing adaptation. Five of these countries have adopted their adaptation policies before 2008 and thus have experiences that are longer than six years. On the basis of this information one could conclude that countries which have adaptation policies in place for several years are also more advanced in implementing adaptation activities.