Environmental Information System in Hungary GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Environmental Information System in Hungary BOZÓ Pál Director, GRID Budapest bozo@mail.kvvm.hu

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Hungary at a glance Area of the country, km2 93,030 Number of population, thousands (2004) 10,102 GDP growth (2003), 2002=100 % 103,4 Per capita income at current prices (2003), EUR/ year 7,231 Contribution to GDP (2002), % agriculture 3.7 industry and construction 30.2 trade, tourism, transport 21.4 other services 44.7

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Public Administration of Environment Deputy State Secretary for Environmental Protection, for Nature Conservation, for Water for Law and Administration for Economical regulations and Budget 12 Environmental Inspectorate, „green” authority 12 Water Directorate 10 National Park VITUKI OMSZ

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Environmental Information System what is it good for? It helps to formulate environmental policy, Gives background for legislation Helps to enforce legal acts and orders Ensures public access to the information

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water What was the situation at the beginning ? out of date legal regulation not harmonized data-collection separate databases

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Answers for the challenges: Legal Organizational Methodological

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Answer 1: new legal framework Act on the General Rules of Environmental Protection (1995) on Nature Conservation (1996) on Regional Development & Regional Planning (1996) on Housing and Construction (1997) on Waste Management (2002) National Environment Program (1997, 2003) National Concept of Regional Policy (1997) National Regional Development Program (2003)

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water MoEW Information Centre, (GRID-Budapest) - NFP Institutes belonging to the MoEW Other ministries & institutes International co-operation (EEA, OECD, UNEP)

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Working together: Governmental institutions>>>>>>by law Private companies>>>>>>>>>>>>by contract What kind of data we have? KIKERES (Meta-database of Hungarian government) GEMET (Thesaurus of EEA)

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Decision makers, public EuroStat EuroStat EC EC EEA EEA OECD OECD UNEP UNEP DG DG ETC ETC DG DG NRC NRC NFP and National Authorities

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Decision makers, public EuroStat EC EEA OECD UNEP DG ETC DG EIONET Server NRC NFP and National Authorities

National reference centers Other institutions GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water European environment information and observation network (EIONET) About 300 national institutions National focal points European topic centers National reference centers Other institutions

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GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Answer 3: Standardized identification system KTJ = Object number KÜJ = Customer number

Connection between KTJ and KÜJ GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Connection between KTJ and KÜJ KTJ KÜJ attributes attributes type type Parent objects predecessors Status sign

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water The ”Soul” of NEIS: Environmental Basic Registry (EBS) Its Aim: The main goal of EBS is to ensure a common basis and background to the storage of data which are required and used by many sub-systems. Thus it can fulfill the following tasks: Uniformly registers common core data, which are independent of sub-systems Integrates the data on client, object and material of the sub-systems into a single data base. It identifies them nationally, independently of sub-systems. (KTJ, KÜJ,) Provides a variety of usage of data collections, which are with differing objectives and effective environmental protection management Ensures the possibility of an effective cooperation between different sub- systems The sub-systems get the basic data from here

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water The Current Sub-Systems of NEIS Groundwater Registry System (FAVI) Information System for Remediation (KÁRINFO) Water Quality Damage Prevention Information System (VIKÁR) Communal Solid Waste Depo Registry System (LANDFILL) Clean Air Protection Data Sheet Registry Information System (LAIR) Official Decisions Registry System (HNYR) Registry System (IR) Waste Management Information System (HIR) Under development: IPPC Information System

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Web server Internet Map Server Map query Result result SQL query Database Server

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Status of GRID Budapest: Incorporated in the Ministry’s Dept. of Informatics Advantage: financial security Disadvantage: no flexibility

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GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Main Activity of GRID Budapest in 2003-2004: SoE report on mini CD Host the KEO kick-off meeting Exhibition at the Ministerial Conference

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Main Activity of GRID Budapest in 2003-2004: Participation in the launch of CLC 2000 Launch „geo”website for the MoEW Preparation of new website for GRID Budapest

GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water “A future feature will or should be integration where the so far partial solutions, activities will become interconnected without harming the necessary professional depth of each detail. In the same way, integration relates to the gradual connection of possibilities which are offered by informatics. Thus, a gradual shift should be made from registry via analysis towards the support of decision making.” (Ministry of Environment and Regional Policy, Information Strategy, 1993)