1. ETC/ACC Workshop on Air Quality for West Balkan countries 20-21 November, Prague Dragana Krstičević, B.Sc. Croatian Environment Agency Trg maršala Tita 8 10 000 Zagreb Croatia Croatian Environment Agency Butterflies, Constantin Ciosu, Romania

2. Croatian national network for air quality monitoring 8 stations urban / industrial

3. Croatian national network for air quality monitoring Responsible for the network MEPPPC Monitoring EEPI without validation till 2008. Web MEPPPC Providing annual reports IMROH Reporting – EU legislative CEA Reporting – EU legislative CEA Reporting– CRO legislative CEA Reporting – CRO legislative CEA Scientific publications ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE MINISTRY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, PHYSICAL PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH CROATIAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

4. Project: Establishment of Air Quality Monitoring and Management System in Croatia - new stations will be bulid up into existing air quality system Duration: 2006 – 2010 Financing: Croatian PHARE 2006 National Programme Cooperation: - Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction - Meteorological and hydrological service of Croatia - Croatian Environment Agency

5. The scope of the project is: Establishment and equipment purchase for 12 new monitoring stations: 5 in National Parks, Nature parks and/or protected areas 7 stations for measuring background and long-distance transbounadry pollution Project: Establishment of Air Quality Monitoring and Management System in Croatia

6. Establishment of Air Quality Monitoring and Management System in Croatia urban / industrial protected areas background / long - distance

7. Chemical laboratory upgrade and laboratory equipment purchase; Development and implementation of measurement protocols, transmission, acquisition, quality assurance and quality control systems for air quality data; Development of data base, utility programmes and tools; Improvement the quality and density of information on air quality. Project: Establishment of Air Quality Monitoring and Management System in Croatia

8. Twinning component of the project: accredited air quality management and monitoring system; chemical laboratory preparation for the accreditation, QA/QC procedures; calibration laboratory preparation for the accreditation, QA/QC procedures; Project: Establishment of Air Quality Monitoring and Management System in Croatia

9. capacity building for operation, maintenance and testing of the instrument performance, field calibration, integration of different monitoring components through data acquisition system and development of data base and utility software; assistance in development : - data base and management system - data quality and validation systems; - system for secure public access to air quality data - system for data exchange and dissemination. Project: Establishment of Air Quality Monitoring and Management System in Croatia

10. Supervision MEPPPC MINISTRY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, PHYSICAL PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION Coordination of all activities MHSC METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE OF CROATIA Reporting – EU legislative CEA Reporting – CRO legislative CEA CROATIAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY with Environmental Information System Web MHSC Scientific publications EIS New scheme of national network for air quality monitoring

11. Specific problems: - lack of experts - lack of IT experts - EIS - project delays… (deadline for establishment of stations has been the end of 2007.)

12. Thank you for your attention…