Hence, the indicators were not established with the purpose of monitoring the consequences of policy decisions in specific economic sectors, though the underlying EU biodiversity strategy specifically addresses the main drivers of biodiversity loss as well as the need to ensure a streamlining of environmental policies and initiatives in major EU policy sectors such as agriculture, fisheries, energy etc. Basically, the SEBI indicators can be separated into two major groups, one covering direct impacts to and status and trends in biodiversity and another covering indirect impacts by means of sampling sustainability issues. Status and trends of the components of biological diversity.