ETC/ACC Workshop on Air Quality for West Balkan countries

20-21 November, Prague

Dragana Krstičević, B.Sc.

Croatian Environment AgencyTrg maršala Tita 8

10 000 ZagrebCroatia

Croatian Environment Agency

Butterflies, Constantin Ciosu, Romania

Croatian national network for air

quality monitoring

8 stations

urban / industrial

Croatian national network for air quality monitoring

Responsible for the Responsible for the network network MEPPPCMEPPPC

Monitoring Monitoring EEPIEEPI

without without validation till validation till

2008.2008.

Web Web MEPPPCMEPPPC

Providing annual Providing annual reportsreports IMROH IMROH

Reporting – EU Reporting – EU legislative legislative CEACEA

ReportingReporting – CRO – CRO legislative legislative CEACEA

Scientific publicationsScientific publications

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE

MINISTRY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, PHYSICAL PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION

INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

CROATIAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

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

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

Establishment of Air Quality Monitoring and Management

System in Croatia

urban / industrial

protected areas

background / long - distance

• 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

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

• 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

Supervision MEPPPCMINISTRY 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 Web MHSCMHSC

Scientific publicationsScientific publications

EIS

New scheme of national network for air quality monitoring

Specific problems:

- lack of experts

- lack of IT experts - EIS

- project delays…(deadline for establishment of stations has been the end of 2007.)

Thank you for your attention…