1. 1 European Environment Agency (EEA) Air and Climate Change Programme Anke Lükewille Co-operation with EEA programmes 10 th Task Force on Measurement and Modeling Paris, 15-17 June 2008 http://www.eea.europa.eu Copenhagen, Denmark

2. 2 The European Environment Agency... is the EU body dedicated to providing sound, independent information on the environment.... is a main information source for those involved in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, and also the general public. http://www.eea.europa.eu Copenhagen, Denmark

3. 3 EEA’s main tasks are: Networking - Development of a European Environmental Information and Observation Network (EIONET) Reporting on the state and trends of Europe’s environment Providing access to environmental information 32 Member Countries NFP (NRC) 5 EEA-ETCs www.eionet.europa.eu http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu www.eionet.europa.eu/reportnet.html

4. 4 EEA’s (new) organisation (2009)

5. 5 Co-operation ”State and trends in Europe’s environment” Long-term air pollutant measurement time series AirBase / EMEP-CCC

6. 6 Assessment of ground-level ozone within EEA Member Countries with focus on long-term trends EEA Technical Report prepared by ETC/ACC (2009): Sverre Solberg, Jan Horalek, Jan Eilof Jonson, Steinar Larssen & Frank de Leeuw In general, ambient air measurements in urban as well as in rural areas do not show any downwards trends in ground-level ozone in Europe over the last decade, although anthropogenic O 3 precursor emissions in Europe have been reduced significantly.

7. 7 Number of AirBase stations with ozone measurements 2008: 2049 stations 19972002

8. 8 Regional distribution of stations

9. 9 Number and quality of long-term time series in AirBase Stations with  ≥8 years of data => 729 stations  A minimum of 75% data capture per year => 624 stations  Data of suspicious quality excluded => 586 stations

10. 10 Rural background stations with ≥8 years of data => 219 stations

11. 11 Development of measured AOT40c levels 22 sites 6 sites 8 sites 10 sites

12. 12 Source: Courtesy of DieZeit, October 19, 1984 Ozone has become a hemispheric air pollution and climate change problem.

13. 13 Co-operation ”State and trends in Europe’s environment” Ecosystem effects of air pollution AQ CSI 005 / CCE (WG Effects) (WSC-W, CIAM)  State of the Environment 2010 Report

14. 14 Critical Loads (exceedances)

15. 15 Co-operation “Providing access to environmental information” Near Real Time (NRT) Initiatives EEA’s ’ozone web’ / EMEP-CCC  Feasibility study (ETC/ACC) in 2009; Steering Board

16. 16 AQ Directive, protection of human health ObjectiveLevel [µg/m 3 ]Averaging time Information threshold (IT)180one-hour Alert threshold (AT)240one-hour Long-term objective (LTO)120 8-hour average, daily maximum Target value (TV) 120 not to be exceeded more than 25 days per calendar year * 8-hour average, daily maximum *Averaged over three years and to be achieved where possible by 2010. NRT ! 3 rd Daughter Directive (2002) & new AQ Directive of 2008

17. 17 logger Sampler Regional database report QA/AC sources HTTP Post HTTP Get FTP Put FTP Get Internet Data exchange Public EEA website National database Public Internet AirBase Annual data transfer Compliance reporting transfer EEA NRT Database EEA’s “Ozone Web” since 2006

18. 18 EEA NRT air quality data – status EEA NRT air quality data – status Regional database HTTP Post HTTP Get FTP Put FTP Get national database EEA NRT Database Internet O 3 PM 10 PM 2.5 NO 2 NO x SO 2 CO NRT data access module

19. 19 NRT AQ data providing added value and facilitating re-use Principles of NRT data exchange: Control: Data providers remain in control of data provision and use. (Not for compliance reporting.) Visibility: Visibility to data providers (branding and their services). Quality control: Data received in real-time by EEA will be filtered for data outside pre-set limits and null or error values. Added value services: EEA aims to provide added value services back to the data provider organisations and facilitate re-use (SEIS).

20. 20 Towards a Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) – What is it? A collaborative initiative of the European Commission, EEA and Member Countries. Aiming at a modern system for organising environmental information, based on INSPIRE/SEIS principles a.o.: “Data stored as close to source as possible” “Produce once, use many times” “Easy accessible” Overall objective: improve knowledge base for environmental policy; reduce administrative burden. S. Dimas, Feb. 2008 “Better decisions from local to European level need better and more timely information, based on more efficient monitoring and reporting systems”

21. 21 EMEP and EEA NRT initiatives  The feasibility study aims to identify and suggest a strategy for handling of NRT AQ data is to be implemented and operated in the future for EMEP and EEA needs taking into experience respective strategies and established capacities as well as SEIS principles.  Funding from EEA, project is progressing well, if somewhat delayed. Steering meeting on June 29 with countries and EMEP.  Aims – avoid duplication, burden on countries, add value, align with SEIS.  Need to improve link from outcome of feasibility work to EMEP monitoring strategy currently under development.  Need to improve collaboration between EMEP and EEA to ensure more continued follow-up and use of complementarities and make synergies in relation to monitoring. Need to work together to improve sustainability issues and address gaps.

22. 22 Co-operation “Providing access to environmental information” ”State and trends in Europe’s environment” GMES (in-situ) EEA SE(I)S / EMEP ???  FP7 project (start 2010?)

23. 23 GMES - EEA coordination role The Commission Communication "GMES: we care for a safer planet" (COM(2008)748 of 12 November 2008); The Competitiveness Council conclusions on GMES: "Towards a GMES programme" (document 16722/08 of 2 December 2008). Proposal for an EU earth observation programme named GMES, Proposal for GMES initial operational funding 2011–2013, Proposals formalising new coordinating roles for EEA / ESA.

24. 24 What is EEA doing in GMES? 1.Following and steer GMES implementation and governance processes; 2.Provide certain elements of GMES services; 3.Coordinate insitu data (NRT and validated); 4.Make use of services and federate user requirements.

25. 25 FP7 project - main objectives  Exploring and determining methods to enable networks to provide the required in-situ data for GMES;  Looking for ways to consolidate and prioritise the needs identified for GMES core services in consultation with established GMES constituencies;  Explore ways and propose approaches to integrate in- situ assets into long-term sustainable frameworks;  Provide proofs of concept of operational in-situ architecture by devising solutions for a number of data sets as case studies or ‘quick-wins’ in cooperation with pre-operational FP7 projects, EC bodies, and institutions responsible for in-situ data provision.

26. 26 European Environment Agency (EEA) Air and Climate Change Programme Anke Lükewille THANK YOU!