NATURE – GIS CZ +SK Workshop Hotel Pyramida, Praha, Ochrana životného prostredia na Slovensku Environmental protection in Slovakia

Žilinská univerzita v Žiline Fakulta riadenia a informatiky Peter Fabián Kontaktné miesto projektu v SR Kontaktné miesto projektu v SR Sídlo národného sekretariátu GISIG Sídlo národného sekretariátu GISIG Sídlo CETRA – Centra excelencie, uznaného a podporovaného EK Sídlo CETRA – Centra excelencie, uznaného a podporovaného EK Sídlo Team Geomedia RRL Sídlo Team Geomedia RRL

National action plan for the environmental protection NEAP I. - Národný environmentálny akčný program SR I National action plan for the environmental protection NEAP II.- Národný environmentálny akčný program SR II. – 1999 Based on the environmental situation in Slovakia in 1998 – 99 Approved by decree of the Slovak government No ( )

Contains actions concerning investments, programs, conceptions, legislation, administration education, awareness raising. National action plan for the environmental protection STAGES till 2000 till 2002, till 2003 & beyond Defines financing, institutional responsibility

10 sectors A : Protection of air and ozone layer B : Protection and rational use of water C : Waste management D : Risc factors and nuclear safety E : Protection of the environment, landscape and territorial development National action plan for environmental protection

F : Protection and rational use of deposits (mining), soils and forests G : Economy of the environment H : Environmental information and monitoring I : Environmental education and awareness rising J : Management of the environmental protection. Národný environmentálny akčný program National action plan for environmental protection

Slovenská agentúra pre životné prostredie Slovak Agency for Environment (SAE) Established by Ministry of Environment 264 Employees ( ) Finance 91 mil. SKK ( approx. 2 mil. Euro) Focal point of EEA (European Environmental Agency)

Slovak Agency for Environment - distribution

Slovak Agency for Environment - structure

SAE- Centre for Environmental Science and Informatics Administers the register of basic settlement units, Builds the Territorial Information System in co-operation with other professional organisations in the SR, Interconnects information about the territory and environment in the overall SEA’s structure and in relation to the Integrated Environmental Information and Monitoring System of the SR, Professionally supervises and co-ordinates the Integrated Environmental Monitoring and Information System of the SR in national as well as international context,

SAE- Centre forEnvironmental Science and Informatics Department of Environmental Information Co-ordinates individual partial monitoring systems from the point of view of the information system of monitoring development and ensures its development, Develops the Information System of SEA as the subsystem of the Integrated Environmental Information and Monitoring System of the SR, Develops methodologies for individual layers of the geographic information system within the framework of SEA’s information system,

7 PARTS AIR EMISIONS, IMISIONS, CLIMATOLOY AND METEOROLOGY, Partial Monitoring System (PMS) AIR, STANDARDS WATER DRINKING W; SURFACE W; UNDERGROUND W; WASTE W; W. QUALITY, RESOURCES, PMS WATER SOILS ARABLE, WOODS, OTHER, WIND EROSION, WATER E; PMS SOIL IS-ŽP Information System on Environment IS-ŽP

FORESTS TYPES, DIVERSITY, STATE, PMS FORESTS GEOLOGY MINING, RESOURCES, PMS GEOLOGICAL FACTORS BIOTA PMS BIOTA, FLORA, FAUNA, BIODIVERSITY, CATALOGUE OF PROTECTED TREES LANDSCAPE RELIEF, LANDCOVER, PROTECTED ARES, CAVES, STATE LIST OF SPECIALLY PROTECTED AREAS

SEA – international co-operation US EPACooperation with US EPA DANUBERemote Sensing demonstration project CORINECorine landcover LANDSAT JICAJICA - REMPRegional Environmental Management Plan FORESTS HEALTH STATE

ZP-Net – proprietary WAN for EP institutions

PROTECTED AREAS Nature and landscape protection is defined as ”the prevention and limitation of impacts which endanger, damage or destroy life conditions and forms, natural heritage and landscape features, decrease its ecological stability, as well as the removal of the results of these impacts. Nature protection is also defined as the care of ecosystems.” – § 2, part 2, of Act of the Parliament of the Slovak Republic SR No. 287/1994 Col. on Nature and Landscape Protection

LEVELS of PROTECTION Whole country is since 1994 divided in the following 5 levels of protection: 1st level of protection – country-wide, applied with regulation of 15 specified activities and other preventive measures (the whole SR territory) – 2nd level of protection – with regulation of further 14 specified activities (particularly in the Protected Landscape Areas - PLA and Protective Zones of National Parks)

LEVELS of PROTECTION 3rd level of protection – with regulation of further 12 specified activities (particularly in National Parks - NP) 4th level of protection – with prohibition of 15 specified activities and regulation of others (particularly in Protected Sites - PS) 5th level of protection with prohibition of further 18 specified activities and regulation of others, in: Nature Reserves (NR), Nature Monuments (NM), National Nature Reserves (NNR), National Nature Monuments (NNM).

CATEGORIES of PROTECTED AREAS – Protected Landscape Area (PLA) – level 2, – National Park (NP)– level 3, – Protected Site (PS) – level 4, – Nature Reserve (NR) – level 5, – Nature Monument (NM) – point, linear or other smaller ecosystems, their components or elements generally not exceeding 50 ha in area, that have scientific, cultural, ecological, aesthetic or landscape significance, level 5

Protected areas in SK Protected areas in SK (as of December 31 st 2000) CategoryCountLevel Protected Landscape Area (PLA)16II National Park (NP)7III Protected Site (PS)181IV Nature Reserve (NR)369V National Nature Reserve (NNR)231V Nature Monument (NM)227V National Nature Monument (NNM)45V

Protected areas in SK Protected areas in SK (as of January 1 st 1998)

National Parks in SK National parkDesignationArea (ha)Protective zones (ha) Tatra NP ,574 Pieniny NP Low Tatra NP Slovak Paradise NP * Malá Fatra NP* Poloniny NP* Muránska plain NP*

UNESCO Biospheric reserves Reserves of the UNESCO Programme ”Man and the Biosphere” (MaB): 1) Slovenský kras Karst PLA - (1977), 2) Poľana PLA - (1990), 3) the Eastern Carpathians PLA (1992) 4) Tatra National Park (1992).

GIS department

Environmental regionalisation

National catalogue of protected areas - WWW

Example – Map of protected areas in the NP Mala Fatra

Example – Catalogue of protected areas in the NP Mala Fatra NumberCategoryName 220NMBôrická mláka 227NRBrodnianka 243NMDomašínsky meander 249NRGoľove mláky 250NRHajasová 261NRHrabinka 267NRHrádok ………

Example – Catalogue of protected areas

Web maps Catalogue of data resources Metadata RS data ARC IMS technology

Metainformation system for GIS SAE  Administrative boundaries  Protected areas  Protected trees  Digital terrain model  Hydrology  Pedology  Composition of woods  CORINE landcover  Satelite LANDSAT  Satelite SPOT  DGPS service

GIS SAE - Metainformation system INFO on DECLARED PROTECTED AREAS  National parks  Buffer zones of NP  Protected landscape areas  National nature reserves  Nature reserves  National nature monuments  Nature monuments  Protected sites  Caves

Metainfo – Thematic layer National parks

Metainfo – Thematic layer Territorial units

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