Overview of environmental monitoring at EU and regional level

Water – legal framework Water framework directive Marine strategy Drinking water directive Waste water directive Bathing water directive OSPAR HELCOM MEDPOL

Water – Matrices analysed Water framework dir. Marine strategy Drinking water dir. Waste water dir. Bathing water dir. OSPAR HELCOM MEDPOL Water, sediment, biota Biota Water WWTP effluent

Water – Substances analysed Water framework directive Main pollutants specified by the MS (Annex VIII) Priority substances (Annex X)

Water – Substances analysed Water framework directive alachlor, anthracene, atrazine, benzene, brominated diphenylether, pentabromodiphenylether (congener numbers 28, 47, 99, 100, 153 and 154), cadmium and its compounds, SCCPs, chlorfenvinphos, chlorpyrifos, 1,2-dichloroethane, dichloromethane, di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate, diuoron, endosulfan, fluoranthene, hexachlorobenzene, hexachlorobutadien, hexachlorocyclohexane, isoproturon, lead and its compounds, mercury and its compounds, naphthalene, nickel and its compounds, nonylphenol (4-nonylphenol), octylphenol (4-(1,1’,3,3’-tetramethylbutyl)-phenol), pentachlorobenzene, pentachlorophenol, PAHs (benzo(a)pyrene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(g,h,i)perylene, benzo(k)fluoranthene, indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene), simazine, tributyltin compounds, trichlorobenzenes, trichloromethane, trifluralin, aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, isodrin, DDT

Water – Substances analysed Marine strategy Drinking water directive Waste water directive Many different chemicals Bathing water directive Not much chemicals analysed

Water – Substances analysed OSPAR Coordinated Environmental Monitoring Programme (CEMP) – mandatory monitoring cadmium, mercury, lead, PCBs, PAHs, TBT, nutrients Pre-CEMP – voluntary monitoring PBDEs, co-planar PCBs, alkyl-PAHs, PFOS, dioxins, furans

Water – Guidelines Water Framework Directive OSPAR Working group on monitoring Detailed guidelines established Methods well comparable; QA/QC established OSPAR Marine Chemistry Working Group

Water – Data OSPAR + HELCOME Centralized database managed by ICES Water Information System for Europe (WISE) Water framework directive Bathing water directive Waste water directive OSPAR + HELCOM

Air – legislation framework Directive 2008/50/EC on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe Directive 2004/107/EC relating to arsenic, cadmium, mercury, nickel and PAHs in ambient air Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) EMEP – cooperative programme for monitoring and evaluation

Air – matrices analysed Air/Aerosol Precipitation

Air – substances analysed EU Directives: SOx, NOx, N2O, PM, lead, benzene, CO, ozone, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, nickel, PAHs EMEP: Acidifying and eutrophying compounds Ozone Heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, lead, nickel) POPs (PCBs, PAHs, HCH, HCB, DDT) Particulate matter VOC

Air – guidelines EU Directives: EMEP: Detailed description in the Directive EMEP: Working group to evaluate data guideline document

Air – data EU Directives: EMEP: AIRBASE Created by the Council decision 97/101/EC Managed by EEA Contains also voluntary monitored substances (e.g. PCBs) EMEP: Web base database Managed by NILU

Some regional monitoring programmes AMAP – Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme Monitoring Network in the Alpine Region for Persistent and other Organic Pollutants (MONARPOP) FOREGS (Forum of Geological Surveys) – Geochemical Baseline Mapping program

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