1. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme SK03/IB/EN/01 SK03/IB/EN/01 Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector Project Objectives and Impact on Beneficiary Country Vladimír Benko CEI SAŽP Banská Bystrica

2. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector

3. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector Overall objective: Strengthening the administrative, monitoring and enforcement capacity in the environmental sector, notably as regards the implementation of the acquis in the field of air, water, waste, nature protection, standardisation and reporting.

4. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector Symbology: the 1 st project as combination of proposals and needs of institutions the 1 st which covers wide area (not only 1 sector) covenant approved in Brussels on the 1 June 2004 as the 1 st covenant approved without conditions started on the 1 July 2004 in the 11 th year of SEA existence with UBA as tw partner - No.1 in EEA PDF ranking

5. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector Twinning Partners From Slovakia: SEA Banská Bystrica From Austria: Vienna (Austrian Federal Environment Agency)

6. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector Duration: 24 months More than 140 days of foreign experts More than 15 nat. institutions Budget: 420 000 EUR Investment: cca 600 000 EUR

7. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector Beneficiaries SEA SHMI SEI SNC of SR

8. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector Beneficiaries

9. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Project Leaders Mr. Vladimír Benko SAŽP, benko@sazp.sk Mr. Johannes Mayer Austrian Federal Environment Agency johannes.mayer@umweltbundesamt.at Ms. Ulrike Stärk, Austrian Federal Environment Agency - SEA, staerk@sazp.sk, Tel: 048 4374 196 Ms. Veronika Košková, SEA project manager Resident Twinning Advisor and Project Manager

10. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector Activity 1. STANDARDISATION Preparation of methodology and conditions for standardised data- flows in the areas of air, water, waste, nature Development and application of automated reporting system based on clearing-house mechanism (CHM) - SK Reportnet SK Reportnet as pilot european solution of national system interconnected with EEA Reportnet

11. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Posilnenie inštitucionálnych kapacít v sektore životného prostredia Activity 1. STANDARDISATION Preparation of methodology for standardised data-flows in the areas of air, water, waste, nature. Development and application of automated reporting system based on clearing-house mechanism (CHM).

12. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector The Reportnet Modules = actively used by EEA Member States

13. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector Activity 2. EEA NATIONAL NETWORK Support (technical) to expand SK NRC network (NRC=National Reference Centres) Improvement of capacity of the national server and technical support for connection of the NRCs in both traditional and new institutions to WANs: ZPNET, EIONET, INTERNET. Priority data-flow identification based on selection criteria of indicators and its improvement Training of staff

14. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector SK NATIONAL part of EEA EIONET NETWORK: 1 NFP office - 2 persons 22 groups of NRCswith 52 subNRCs 54 persons in NRCs new 9 institutions new 16 persons

15. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Posilnenie inštitucionálnych kapacít v sektore životného prostredia Activity 2. EEA NATIONAL NETWORK Support (technical) to create NRC (National Reference Centres) network at national level. Improvement of capacity of the national server and technical support for connection of the NRCs in both traditional and new institutions to WANs: ZPNET, EIONET, INTERNET. Priority data-flow identification based on selection criteria of indicators and its improvement Training of staff.

16. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Posilnenie inštitucionálnych kapacít v sektore životného prostredia Activity 2. EEA NATIONAL NETWORK Support (technical) to create NRC (National Reference Centres) network at national level. Improvement of capacity of the national server and technical support for connection of the NRCs in both traditional and new institutions to WANs: ZPNET, EIONET, INTERNET. Priority data-flow identification based on selection criteria of indicators and its improvement Training of staff.

17. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Posilnenie inštitucionálnych kapacít v sektore životného prostredia Activity 2. EEA NATIONAL NETWORK Support (technical) to create NRC (National Reference Centres) network at national level. Improvement of capacity of the national server and technical support for connection of the NRCs in both traditional and new institutions to WANs: ZPNET, EIONET, INTERNET. Priority data-flow identification based on selection criteria of indicators and its improvement Training of staff.

18. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector Activity 3. ENVIRONMENTAL INSPECTORATE Selection of data sets from monitoring in specialised institutions and from administrative procedures Development of effective system for sharing of data using defined selection criteria (personal effective deskboard) - SEIS Training of staff Improvement of the equipment for the CITES implementation and SEI – SNC connection

19. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme EEA Reportnet SK Reportnet ISofEO SEIS SHMI SEA SNC

20. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme EEA Reportnet SK Reportnet ISofEO SEIS SHMI SEA SNC for reporting from SK for Regional & District Officesfor SEI & MoE

21. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme EEA Reportnet SK Reportnet ISofEO SEIS SHMI SEA SNC

22. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme EEA Reportnet SK Reportnet ISofEO SEIS SHMI SEA SNC

23. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme ArcSDEArcIMSdb Oracle WEB Data store db

24. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector Activity 4. AIR POLLUTION Support to the existing network of monitoring stations and support for new reporting obligation Improvement and upgrade of existing sampling and analytical equipment Improvement of laboratory capacities and analytical quality for air samples analysis

25. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector Activities 1 - 4 are parts of Mosaic of MDIAR chain (Monitoring-Data-Information-Assessment-Reporting) in Slovakia Parts of Environmental Information in Europe - SEEIS (Shared European Environmental Information System) INSPIRE and SDI

26. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector Conclusion: vsuccessful – not only from the content point of view, achievement of defined targets, supplied techniques and solutions within 28 mil.Sk, but also by improvement of partnership between institutions of MoE sector: SEA-SHMI-SEI-SNC of SR and partnership with UBA vproject was not only about the work, but also about relations and friendship

27. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector 1

28. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector Thanks to: vUlrike Staerk, RTA, UBA vVeronika Košková, PM SEA CEI vJohannes Mayer, PL, UBA vMoE, CFCU, OoG, SHMI, SEI, SNC, SEA and others

29. SK03/IB/EN/01-Financed by EU Phare Programme Institutional and Capacity Building in the Environmental Sector Thank you for the attention ! benko@sazp.sk