11th EIONET Workshop on Air Quality Management and Assessment, La Rochelle, October 2006 WELCOME! on behalf of EEA’s Air and transport group to the 11 th EIONET Workshop on Air Quality Management and Assessment

11th EIONET Workshop on Air Quality Management and Assessment, La Rochelle, October Participants 33 Countries (30 of EEA, 3 of cooperating countries) 11 th EIONET Workshop in La Rochelle:

11th EIONET Workshop on Air Quality Management and Assessment, La Rochelle, October Scope of the workshop A primary objective of the EIONET workshops is to inform our national partners on running activities of EEA and ETC in a particular thematic area and to exchange views on planned activities. In 2007 in AQ area EEA together with ETC/ACC will: continue in the development of the air data centre in accordance with the agreement between DG Env, JRC and ESTAT, focusing on collection, management, quality-assurance and web presentation of air emission and air quality data; develop and implement procedures for quality checking and evaluation of AQ FWD questionnaires. Assessment will be grounded on GIS and AQ mapping, taking into account as much as possible all information on air quality assessment performed by countries; improve the near-real time ozone data website, streamline with summer ozone exceedance reporting, and extend it as a key element of SEIS towards other air quality parameters; assess urban air quality and transport on trends in air emissions and air quality. Main activities in AQ planed for 2007 are topics of this workshop

11th EIONET Workshop on Air Quality Management and Assessment, La Rochelle, October Sessions of the workshop General aspects of air quality monitoring, assessment and data flows CAFÉ directive and Implementing provisions. Andrej Kobe, DG Env New WHO Air Quality Guidelines. Michal Krzyzanovski, WHO Representativeness of Air Quality monitoring stations. Wolfgang Spangel, UBA Vienna Correction of PM10 measurements, French approach. Joelle Colosio, ADEME Study of PM correction factors in the UK. Jenete Dixon, DEFRA, UK AQ data and metadata exchange and AirBase Air quality assessment and management as required by FWD EU project Development of Estonian Air Quality Management System- actions and outcomes Future development scenarios for traffic system and air pollution in Riga city Parallel sessions Discussion session on technical issues related to data exchange Support to air quality assessment by modeling and mapping Exchange of up-to-date information on air quality in Europe Brief overview of the Air Quality Services of the ESA PROMOTE2 project. Eleni Paliouras, PROMOTE Near real time analyzed maps of ozone over Europe. Laurence Rouil, INERIS Activities of WG-ENV of EUMETNET. Sylvain Joffre, FMI Update on EEA/ETC-ACC assessment outputs

11th EIONET Workshop on Air Quality Management and Assessment, La Rochelle, October Looking forward to a full and lively discussion during the workshop Thank you for your attention!