- Only statements in topics that the Mouvement Ecologique is (actively) working on and accordingly also pursuing, or that are particularly welcome from a sustainability perspective, were included;
- General statements that actually represent a certain social consensus are not adopted, partly because they are difficult to evaluate;
- Only instruments and measures that are formulated so specifically that an ‘evaluation’ of their implementation can take place were included;
- The mecoscope should reflect a certain diversity: therefore, a mix of specific and partly technical instruments as well as more fundamental measures / reform projects whose implementation can be evaluated were taken into account;
- The various aspects of ecological sustainability should be reflected;
- Since the number of promises taken into account should remain manageable, only those that are truly important and meet the criteria mentioned so far were taken up. Measures whose implementation is so obvious that they should actually be a matter of course in the day-to-day business of a government were not taken up;
The totality of the measures adopted in the mecoscope should, due to their diversity, allow a general assessment of the government’s work in the area of sustainable development. This goes beyond the evaluation of the implementation of individual measures.