1. 1 Environmental Information System in Hungary Agnes Martosné Bartha Aarhus Convention’s Task Force on Electronic Tools 2nd Meeting 26-27. January 2004 Geneva GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water

2. 2 Main tasks of the Ministry:  elaboration of governmental policy  preparation of legal measures and control of efficiency  preparation of Government’s decision making  winning the public over to environment protection  information of decision makers and citizens  international co-operation

3. 3 Basic structure  Deputy State Secretary for Environmental Protection, for Nature Conservation, for Water Affairs  12 Environmental Inspectorate  12 Water Directorates  12 Water Inspectorates  10 National Park Directorates  Environmental Management Institute (KGI) GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water

4. 4 Institutes collect data concerning of the environment :  Ministry of Environment and Water  Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development  Ministry of Economic Affairs  Ministry for Information and Telecommunication  Ministry of Health  Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO)

5. 5 GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Data by  measurement - monitoring (sampling, on-line)  statistical sampling, data collection  official control (measurement, penalty)  self report  remote sensing

6. 6 GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Accesibility of data  Constitution (1949)  Act on Data Protection (1992)  Act on Statistics (1993)  Act on the General Rules of Environmental Protection (1995)  Cabinet Order on National Statistical Data Collection Programme (1998) - yearly up-dated  Ratification of the Aarhus Convention (2001)

7. 7 GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Environmental Information System - what for?  Help to formulate environmental policy  Give background for legislation  Ensure public acces to the information

8. 8 GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water  What was the situation at the beginning ?  out of date legal regulation  not harmonized data-collection  separate databases

9. 9 GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water New legal framework Act  on the General Rules of Environmental Protection (1995)  on Nature Conservation (1996)  on Regional Development & Regional Planning (1996)  on Housing and Construction (1997)  on Waste Management (2000) National Environment Programme (1997) National Concept of Regional Policy (1997)

10. 10 GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water International co-operation OECD/EU  biannual data collection on the state of the environment and environmental expenditures of society EU (EEA)  connection to the EIONET network  Dobøiš+3 Report  EU’98 Report  KIEV’2003 European SoE Riport

11. 11 GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Publications Environmental Indicators  Environmental Indicators of Hungary 2000; 2002  Main Environmental Indicators of Hungary 2000; 2002;  Main Environmental Indicators of Hungary 2003 (mini CD)  Key Environmental Indicators of Hungary 2002  Environmental Pressure Indicators of Hungary 2003 (joint publication with HCSO, in Hungarian only) Environmental Data  Environmental Statistical Data of Hungary (yearbook of HCSO since 1996)  OECD Environmental Data Compendium (biannual publication since 1997, in Hungarian)

12. 12 GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Ministry’s Information Centre (GRID-Budapest) - NFP Institutes belonging to the Ministry - NRC Other ministries & institutes International co-operation (EEA, OECD, UNEP)

13. 13 GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Data dissemination  inspectorates, directorates, national parks (regional level)  Ministry/ UNEP/GRID-Budapest/KGI (national level - aggregated data)  EIONET/thematic centres with GIS database  biannual report on the state of the environment (for the Parliament)  information for decision makers and public  Public Service Office

14. 14 GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Connection to EU/EIONET network Structure of Hungarian EIONET members Water (Final Report of VITUKI Rt. „Performing the Tasks of the EEA’s EUROWATERNET System in Hungary for Surface Waters and Groundwater”) Terrestrial Environment Air and Climate Change Natural protection and Biodiversity Waste and Material Flows

15. 15 GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Connection to EU/EIONET network  Objectives  Description  National Reference Centres  EIONET Legislation  Link-up of the National EIONET Institutions  Data Modelling

16. 16 GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Projects in order to meet Objectives (1.) National Reference Centres results of the survey and comparison list of Hungarian institutions to be join to EIONET reasons why these institutions are on the list suggestions for measures to be taken to transform institutions to be members of the EIONET EIONET Legislation Institutional network needs elaboration of legal, organisational and financial background and basis. Governmental decree.

17. 17 GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Projects in order to meet Objectives (2.) Link-up of the National EIONET Institutions equipment supply determining the hardware development of the different institutions basic software supply construction of the network (institutions with each other and national centre) software - specific unified data exchange standards training of staff

18. 18 GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Projects in order to meet Objectives (3.) Data Modelling environmental and integrated environmental- economical models information for decision makers, environmental politics and general public PUBLIC :  WWW.KVVM.HU EEA:  http://nfp-hu.eionet.eu.int

19. 19 GRID Budapest Ministry of Environment and Water Web serverInternet Map Sever Database server  no direct communication between the web server and the database server  shared resources  higher security map request created map SQL query result of the query