Enviromental monitoring and river basin management

Environmental Institute assists with its expertise in various projects focusing on the development of monitoring programmes, measurement strategies, methodologies and techniques, with emphasis on quality control systemic aspects and appropriate data management.

Since 2001 has been EI involved in the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in Slovakia and supported WFD-related activities of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) within the Danube river basin (14 European states including new EU MS, PHARE, TACIS and CARDS/OBNOVA countries). EI has contributed to the development of several river basin management programmes, e.g., on rivers Rhine (The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland), Meuse (The Netherlands, Belgium), Prut (Moldova, Romania), Western Dvina (Belarus, Latvia, Russia), Western Bug (Belarus, Poland, Ukraine), Upper Tisa (Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary), Tisa (Serbia and Montenegro, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia), Arda (Bulgaria, Greece), Vardar/Axios (fYR Macedonia, Greece), establishment of wetland protected areas, e.g. Cama Dinu (Romania, Bulgaria) and Lower Dniester (Ukraine, Moldova), WFD coastal water monitoring (Bulgaria, Georgia, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Romania) and development of monitoring strategies for air/water/soil and biodiversity compartments in Albania.

Projects:

• Strengthen capacity in nature protection and environmental monitoring (2013-2014)
• Joint Danube Survey 3. ICPDR project (International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River). Preparation, organisation and reporting/evaluation of the biggest ICPDR project in 2013
  ICPDR countries D, AT, CZ, SK, HU, SLO, HR, SER, BiH, BG, RO, MD, UA/ Client&Funding: ICPDR/ Danube Countries/Duration: 2012 - present
• Framework contract to provide services to support the development and implementation of EU freshwater policies; Consultancy for the DG Environment and Climate Action at the implementation of the Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and Floods Directive (FD), the assessment and compliance checking of the implementation of the EU water legislation (WFD, Priority Substances Directive, Groundwater Directive and FD), development of WISE, new policy developments;
  Countries: EU/ Client &Funding: European Commission, DG Environment and Climate Action, Project No. ENV.D1/FRA/2012/0014 /Duration: 2012 - present
• Framework Service Contract for the Support to the Implementation of the Water Industry Directives; Consultancy for the DG ENV at the implementation of the Drinking Water Directive ((DWD), Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) and Bathing Water Directive (BWD);
  Countries: EU / Client & Funding: European Commission, DG ENV, Milieu/ Project No. ENV.D2/FRA/2012/0013/ Duration: 2012 - present
• Preparation of technical specifications for supply of equipment for Nature and Water monitoring and information systems;
  Countries: FYR Macedonia / Client & Funding: European Union, IPA /Project No. IPA/TAIB2009/4.2/LOT6/02./ Duration: 2012 - present
• Preparation of technical specifications for supply of equipment for Nature and Water monitoring and information systems (2012-2013)
• Technical and Administrative Assistance for the Implementation of the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC); Consultancy for the EC – DG ENV, evaluation of all aspects of the RBMPs in the EU MS incl. Programmes of Measures;
  Countries: EU / Client & Funding: European Commission, DG ENV, WRc / Project No. ENV.D.2/ATA/2005/0057 and DG ENV.D2/SER/2008/0113 (extension in July 2009 and August 2011)/ Duration: 2005 – 2012
• Comparative study of pressures and measures in the major river basin management plans in the EU; Consultancy for the EC – DG ENV, Review of the national RBMPs.
  Countries: EU / Client & Funding: European Commission, DG ENV, WRc / Project No. ENV.D.1/SER/2011/0028/ Duration: 2011 - present
• CARPIVIA; Preparatory action on climate in the Carpathian region – Service contract for the integrated assessment of vulnerability of environmental resources and ecosystem-based adaptation measures.
  Countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine / Client&Funding: European Commission, DG ENV, DLO-Alterra Wageningen UR, /No. ENV.D.1/SER/2010/0048 / Duration: 2011 - present
• Monitoring of fish in selected surface water bodies of the Slovak Republic (2011-2012)
• WB/GEF Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Stockpiles Management and Destruction Project (2010-2011)
• Analysis of chlorinated alkanes (paraffins; C10 - C13) according to the Programme of monitoring of waters in the Slovak Republic for years 2008 - 2010 (2010)
• Flood Monitoring and Forecast in the Pripyat River Basin in Ukraine and Belarus (2009)
• PARAFAC - Development of analytical methodologies for problematic compounds included in the WFD (2000/60/EC) (2009-2012)
• Support to the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (2009-2012)
• Technical assistance in the preparation and implementation of the Sava River Basin Management Plan (2009-2011)
• Water Governance in Central Asia (2009)
• Agriculture Pollution Control Project (APCP) within Croatian Agricultural Acquis Cohesion project (2009)
• Development of regulations on environmental monitoring in the Nistru river basin within the Confidence Building Measures Projects between the Republic of Moldova and the Transnistria region (2009)
• Integrated Water Quality Modelling and Monitoring in a Tropical Reservoir (2008-2009)
• Integrated monitoring, data processing and warning system for hazard management in Serbia (2008-2009)
• Biological Monitoring of the Rivers and Lakes/Reservoirs in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2008-2009)
• UNDP-GEF Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Stockpiles Management and Destruction Project (2007-2009)
• A pilot early-warning monitoring station in Shanghai, China (2007-2009)
• Joint Danube Survey 2 (2007-2008)
• SOCOPSE - Source Control of Priority Substances in Europe (2006-2009)
• Danube River Enterprise Pollution Reduction (2006)
• Environmental Collaboration for the Black Sea (2006)
• Danube Regional Project: Development of operational tools for monitoring, laboratory and information management (2005 – 2006)
• Support to Black Sea Basin Directorate for the Implementation of the Water Framework Directive Concerning Coastal Water Monitoring (2005 - 2006)
• Technical assistance for Water Quality Management of Arda River, Bulgaria
• Improvement of the Management of the Vardar River Basin
• Monitoring and improving the rivers in the Vardar/Axios watershed, fYR Macedonia/Greece
• Management of the Bug, Latoritza and Uzh River Basins (2004 – 2006)
• Determination of individual groups of benthic invertebrate organisms in samples of surface waters of Slovakia and analyses of chlorinated alkanes C10-13 in surface waters; Dissemination of the quality assurance - quality control quidance documents as a support to the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in the Slovak Republic (2005-2007)
• Environmental Monitoring in Albania (2005)
• Lower Dnister River Basin Management Planning (2004 – 2005)
• Technical assistance for the Lower Dnister River Basin Management Planning (2004-2005)
• UNDP-GEF Danube Regional Project - Support for TNMN and EMIS Inventory Harmonization; Objective 2: Capacity building and reinforcement of trans-boundary cooperation for the improvement of water quality and environmental standards in the DRB (2002 – 2003)
• Screening of EU Water Framework Directive priority pollutants and pesticides in surface and ground waters (2001 – 2003)
• Protection of wetlands of the Danube - a pilot project for Cama Dinu islets area, Romania (2003)
• Screening of EU Water Framework Directive priority pollutants and pesticides in surface and ground waters in the Slovak Republic (2002 – 2005)
• Inventory of industrial pollution sources in the Slovak Republic (2002 – 2005)
• Development of Transboundary Co-operation Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Bug River Between Belarus and Poland (2000 – 2002)
• Water Basin Management for the Western Dvina, Vitebsk Oblast in Belarus (2000 – 2002)
• Joint Danube Survey (2001 – 2002)
• Joint Danube Survey - Investigation of the Tisa River (2001 – 2002)
• Prut River Management (1998 – 2000)
• Demonstration project for waste water management at Novácke chemické závody a.s., Slovak Republic (1997 – 1998)
• Nitra Basin Programme (1993 – 1996)
• Rhine Basin Program, Rhine Action Programme (1991 – 1996)