1. Croatian Environment Agency, CEA
Status of State of Environment (SoE) monitoring and reporting (rivers, lakes, groundwater, TCM, quantity, emissions) in Croatia
West Balkan Water Workshop
2008, June 5 – 6, Zagreb, Croatian Waters
Anica Juren,
Head of Inland Water & Marine Unit

2. Legal framework
Agency has been established in June 2002., - Decree Law on the Establishment of the Environment Protection Agency (Official Gazette No. 75/02)
Environmental Protection Act (Official Gazette110/07) – new, harmonized with EU related legislations
National Environmental Protection Plan (Official Gazette 46/02)
National Environment Strategy (Official Gazette 46/02)
Decree Law on the National Environmental Information System (Official Gazette No. 74/99) – new proposal
Other legal acts related to environment protection (Air protection Act, Waste act, etc)
Zagreb,

3. CEA’s scope of activities
Prescribed by Environmental Protection Act
The Agency is envisaged as a focal point for:
collecting and integration of the environmental data on a national level
their processing,
maintaining the environmental database
environmental monitoring
reporting on environment
Collaboration with EEA – Agency is National Focal Point
CEA: 40 permanent employees
Water/marine Unit – employees
Zagreb,

4. Environmental topics covered by Agency
Water
Sea
Air quality and climate changes
Waste
Biodiversity
Soil and agriculture
Sector pressures (energetic, industry, transport, tourism, environment and health)
Zagreb,

5. CEA (AZO) is responsible for and maintains
Waste Information System
Marine Information System
Air Information System
Soil Information System
Database on Polluted Locations (GEOL)
Corine Land Cover Database
KEO – Cadastre on emissions in environment
Cadastre on risky and potential risky installations
Environmental projects database
More databases predicted according to new environmental protection law
EIS National Environment Information System – distributed but connected databases ( like SEIS)
Zagreb,

6. Inland Water & Marine Unit – activities (1)
Main activities
Development of national list of indicators (water, sea, fishery, mariculture)
Development and maintain databases
Pollutant emission register /Register on emissions in sea and water
Collecting water and sea related data
Reporting (EEA, UNDP, publications,..)
Establishment of national dataflow and referent centres
Zagreb,

7. Inland Water & Marine Unit – internatiol projects
ASEMP- Adriatic Sea Environmental Master Plan, web based tool – module Croatia, (completed)
In progress:
CROW project - Integration of Water-related Tables and Concepts into a Croatian Reporting Structure of the National Environment Information System, CROW
SIDA project - Calculating and mapping of critical loads on surface water for selected sites in Croatia
Zagreb,

8. Inland Water & Marine Unit – databases (1)
Pollutant emission register - emissions to water/sea
set of data on:
- sources
- types
- amounts
- methods
- points of discharge and off-site transfer
of pollutants and waste to the environment (OG 35/08)
CEA shall provide annual report of emissions to water
Harmonized with EU (E-PRTR register)
Zagreb,

9. Inland Water & Marine Unit – databases (3)
SEA WEB PORTAL – in develpoment:
Marine indicator database
Online real time networking of 3 institutes and CEA
24 marine indicators (13 calculated for the period – 2006
More indicators predicted as next step, and more instructions will be connected in network
Metadata on indicators
Concept of distributed but connected databases (EIS)
Zagreb,

10. Inland Water & Marine Unit – databases (4)
SEA WEB PORTAL – in development:
Marine indicator database
Visualisation of indicator:
Textual
Tabular
GIS
Zagreb,

11. Inland Water & Marine Unit – databases (5)
SEA WEB PORTAL – in develpoment:
Marine indicator database
Visualisation of indicator:
Textual
Tabular
GIS
Zagreb,

12. Inland Water & Marine Unit – databases (6)
SEA WEB PORTAL – in development:
Marine water bathing quality database – GIS viewer
Visualisation of indicator:
Textual
Tabular
GIS
Zagreb,

13. Inland Water & Marine Unit - databases EEA data requests (1)
PRIORITY DATASETS
DATA PROVIDER
EEA
Numb. stations
River quality
Croatian Waters (CW)
(CEA- pressures; CLC) 45
Lake quality CW
(CEA- pressures – CLC 9
Groundwater quality
Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia (MHSC)
CW – not delivered
424
(river Sava basin)
Water quantity
MHSC 77
Transitional, coastal and marine water quality
IOF, ISCZ, RBI-CMR
(CW, CEA) 47
Zagreb,

14. Inland Water & Marine Unit - databases EEA data requests (2)
PRIORITY DATASETS
2003
2004
2005
2006
River quality 
 
Lake quality
Groundwater quality 
Water quantity
Transitional, coastal and
marine water quality
Zagreb,

15. More information Thank you for your attention ! www.azo.hr
Zagreb,