1. SEIS and Data Centres SEIS and Data Centres 25 October 2007, Dublin 8th Joint UNECE TFEIP & EIONET Meeting

2. Definition Data Centre “an institutionally supported facility providing convenient access to, manipulation of, and/or distribution of data sets pertaining to a specific thematic area (including supporting information and expertise) for a community of users.” (Go4, 2006)

3. The “Group of 4” common architecture

4. Data centres within SEIS emvironmental data centres Data and Information Air Land use Chemicals Climate Change Biodiversity SoilForests WasteWater Natrual resources...

5. Operational Data Centres  long-term lifetime not tied to a specific project  provides information in a supervised and proofed quality  storing, maintaining, and making available data for users  adapted for current and expected user needs

6. Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) EEA will be responsible for the data centre on air This data centre must provide quality assured data at European level for:  emissions of air pollutants  air quality

7. …. ….. the data centre on air will have a wide scope in making data available A great deal of data also needs to be made available to users in an integrated way:  National Emission Ceilings (NEC) inventories National Emission Ceilings (NEC) inventories  CLRTAP inventories Zones in relation to air quality thresholds CLRTAP inventoriesZones in relation to air quality thresholds  Summer ozone reporting Summer ozone reporting  Near real time data Near real time data  AQ Plans and programmes AQ Plans and programmes  EPER reporting EPER reporting  IPPC reporting IPPC reporting  Spatial modelling of air quality Spatial modelling of air quality  Spatial modelling of air emissions Spatial modelling of air emissions  ……

8. EEA work programme 2008/2009 Design and implement the data centre on air This task will need:  the expertise of ETC Air and Climate Change  the support of National Reference Centres on air quality and air emissions  the cooperation of DG Environment, Eurostat and JRC

9. What has been done in the last year New air emissions data-viewer in final testing stage Now Airbase data available to public in EEA Data Service New Airviewer now being tested – will be available to public with results of EoI 2007 data collection (2006 data) maps generated from the stations and statistics

10. URLs for you to visit Air Emissions Dataviewer not yet in Demo testing… EEA Dataservice Airbase tabular data http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/ metadetails.asp?id=949 http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/ metadetails.asp?id=949 Draft AQ viewer (new Airview) “look at the stations” http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/demo/airview http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/demo/airview Draft AQ viewer (new Airview) “look at the pollutants” http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/demo/airview value/ http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/demo/airview value/

11. And EEA Information Centre ….. http://eea.europa.eu/enquiries

12. Emission datasets for potential inclusion in the air data centre To each of the identified relevant datasets, a DRAFT priority is attributed for (potential) inclusion into the data centre. The DRAFT priorities are assigned as follows: High: Necessary to include the dataset in the data centre Medium: Valuable to include the dataset in the data centre Low: Limited value to include the dataset in the data centre A data set is “included” into the Air Data Centre if: collection, QA/QC and dissemination of the data set is under the (joint) responsibility of the Data Centre. The data set will be disseminated through the common architecture to be decided on by the Go4. In the mean time, the data set is disseminated to Go4 and the larger public through the EEA data service.

13. Emission datasets for potential inclusion in the air data centre NEC Directive – 2001/81/EC (High) LRTAP Convention & Protocols - EC LRTAP Inventory (High) EU Monitoring Mechanism/UNFCCC for GHGs - indirect pollutants (High) EPER decision - 2000/479/EC (High) E-PRTR Regulation –2006/166/EC (High/Medium) IPPC Directive – 96/61/EC Emission limit values (Low) LCP Directive – 2001/80/EC (Low) EC Regulation on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Low) Stockholm Convention on POPs (2001) (Low) The Eionet PDFs will have the same priority as the corresponding dataset of the official reporting obligation assigned earlier

14. The definition and functions of data centres is an on-going activity A number of definitions are still being developed and refined across the GO4 partners e.g. the detailed content scope (for example should ‘assessment-related’ products such as indicators be included, the data used in indicators, or neither if the basic data is already available within the data centre)? It’s very much on-going work…!

15. Thank you