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Croatian Environment Agency, CEA
Status of State of Environment (SoE) monitoring and reporting (rivers, lakes, groundwater, TCM, quantity, emissions) in Croatia West Balkan Water Workshop 2008, June 5 – 6, Zagreb, Croatian Waters Anica Juren, Head of Inland Water & Marine Unit
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Legal framework Agency has been established in June 2002., - Decree Law on the Establishment of the Environment Protection Agency (Official Gazette No. 75/02) Environmental Protection Act (Official Gazette110/07) – new, harmonized with EU related legislations National Environmental Protection Plan (Official Gazette 46/02) National Environment Strategy (Official Gazette 46/02) Decree Law on the National Environmental Information System (Official Gazette No. 74/99) – new proposal Other legal acts related to environment protection (Air protection Act, Waste act, etc) Zagreb,
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CEA’s scope of activities
Prescribed by Environmental Protection Act The Agency is envisaged as a focal point for: collecting and integration of the environmental data on a national level their processing, maintaining the environmental database environmental monitoring reporting on environment Collaboration with EEA – Agency is National Focal Point CEA: 40 permanent employees Water/marine Unit – employees Zagreb,
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Environmental topics covered by Agency
Water Sea Air quality and climate changes Waste Biodiversity Soil and agriculture Sector pressures (energetic, industry, transport, tourism, environment and health) Zagreb,
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CEA (AZO) is responsible for and maintains
Waste Information System Marine Information System Air Information System Soil Information System Database on Polluted Locations (GEOL) Corine Land Cover Database KEO – Cadastre on emissions in environment Cadastre on risky and potential risky installations Environmental projects database More databases predicted according to new environmental protection law EIS National Environment Information System – distributed but connected databases ( like SEIS) Zagreb,
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Inland Water & Marine Unit – activities (1)
Main activities Development of national list of indicators (water, sea, fishery, mariculture) Development and maintain databases Pollutant emission register /Register on emissions in sea and water Collecting water and sea related data Reporting (EEA, UNDP, publications,..) Establishment of national dataflow and referent centres Zagreb,
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Inland Water & Marine Unit – internatiol projects
ASEMP- Adriatic Sea Environmental Master Plan, web based tool – module Croatia, (completed) In progress: CROW project - Integration of Water-related Tables and Concepts into a Croatian Reporting Structure of the National Environment Information System, CROW SIDA project - Calculating and mapping of critical loads on surface water for selected sites in Croatia Zagreb,
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Inland Water & Marine Unit – databases (1)
Pollutant emission register - emissions to water/sea set of data on: - sources - types - amounts - methods - points of discharge and off-site transfer of pollutants and waste to the environment (OG 35/08) CEA shall provide annual report of emissions to water Harmonized with EU (E-PRTR register) Zagreb,
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Inland Water & Marine Unit – databases (3)
SEA WEB PORTAL – in develpoment: Marine indicator database Online real time networking of 3 institutes and CEA 24 marine indicators (13 calculated for the period – 2006 More indicators predicted as next step, and more instructions will be connected in network Metadata on indicators Concept of distributed but connected databases (EIS) Zagreb,
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Inland Water & Marine Unit – databases (4)
SEA WEB PORTAL – in development: Marine indicator database Visualisation of indicator: Textual Tabular GIS Zagreb,
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Inland Water & Marine Unit – databases (5)
SEA WEB PORTAL – in develpoment: Marine indicator database Visualisation of indicator: Textual Tabular GIS Zagreb,
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Inland Water & Marine Unit – databases (6)
SEA WEB PORTAL – in development: Marine water bathing quality database – GIS viewer Visualisation of indicator: Textual Tabular GIS Zagreb,
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Inland Water & Marine Unit - databases EEA data requests (1)
PRIORITY DATASETS DATA PROVIDER EEA Numb. stations River quality Croatian Waters (CW) (CEA- pressures; CLC) 45 Lake quality CW (CEA- pressures – CLC 9 Groundwater quality Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia (MHSC) CW – not delivered 424 (river Sava basin) Water quantity MHSC 77 Transitional, coastal and marine water quality IOF, ISCZ, RBI-CMR (CW, CEA) 47 Zagreb,
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Inland Water & Marine Unit - databases EEA data requests (2)
PRIORITY DATASETS 2003 2004 2005 2006 River quality Lake quality Groundwater quality Water quantity Transitional, coastal and marine water quality Zagreb,
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