1. Overview of environmental monitoring at EU and regional level

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

3. 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

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

5. 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

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

7. 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

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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Air – matrices analysed
Air/Aerosol
Precipitation

12. 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

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

14. 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

15. 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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