Transcript Reporting

SOE Reporting in Austria
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Umweltbundesamt
 National Agency for Environment in Austria
(1985)
 Data generation, processing and provision
 450 experts from 55 areas of expertise
 Legal basis Austrian Environmental Control Act
(1995)
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Austria
 8.5 million inhabitancies
 83.879 km²
 GDP/ inh (Purchasing power parity) $ 41.822
 European Union member since 1995
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Framework conditions in Austria
 The SoE report is the report of the minister
 Report prepared by the Umweltbundesamt
 Report has to be given to the parliament
 every third year
 Last one 2013 (reporting period 2010-2012)
 …and made available to the general public
Target group
the political decision maker: the parliament, the
ministers
…. the better the information
 the better the decisions
it is not: the general public, the media, the
teachers, the technical experts …
Recommendations
 Language (clear language, no technical language, no
polemic wording): “editors” and “experts”
 Priority setting - what are the topics, policy will need
guidance in the next three years (European Processes,
Policy Cycle, Radar for upcoming issues in science and
administration)
 Focus on the options. What can be done and what are
the consequences (cost benefit analyses, scenarios, and
we have to include socioeconomic aspects)
SOER Austria - 18 Chapters
Water and Water Management; Air; Soil;
Climate change mitigation; Climate change
adaptation; Agriculture and forestry;
Biodiversity and nature conservation; Noise;
Resources and waste management;
Contaminated sites; Chemicals; Energy;
Industrial installations; Transport; Tourism;
Spatial Development; Health and Environment;
Sustainable Development
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What is our SOE Report?
 A collection of all the relevant environmental
information (it was one of the goals in the past
when internet was not yet available)?
 An activity report (what has been done by ….)?
 A summary of summaries of all other reports?
 A report on environmental indicators (focusing on
the quality and availability of information)?
Structure in the chapters
 Environmental policy objectives (What do we want /
is required)?
 Situation and trend (What do we have?)
 Assessment and outlook (Do we have what we
want?)
 Recommendation (Who should do what?)
Objectives/goals
 Conventions, EU-law, national law, ordinances,
political declarations etc.
Additionally we refer to two basic principles
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the concept of sustainable development
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the concept of health protection
Situation and Trend
Describe the situation (in regard to the objectives)
Examples:
 Concentration of pollutants in water/air
/soil/vegetation (limiting values, threshold values for
pollutants)
 health effects
 Percentage of biofuel in petrol,
 Decoupling of economic development and energy
consumption
 implementation of systems (legal regulations, Globally
Harmonised System for chemicals)
and trends
Assessment and forecast
 We analyse the information, discuss the quality of
the data and the reliability of the results, we give
background information, we compare status and
objectives, analyse the reason of the
development, the reason of success or failure of
measures and we develop recommendations for
measures
Recommendations
 This chapter lists recommendations including the
addressees
Austrian SOER on Water 2013
 Environmental policy objectives
WFD, UWWT Directive; Floods Directive; EU blue
print on water resources
 Situation and trends
Measures taken; Quality (Nutrients, crop
protection products); Flood Events; developments
on EU level
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Austrian SOER on Water 2013
 Assessment and outlook
Measures for Chemical statues, priority
substances; investment demand for UWWT
plants; Impacts caused by Climate change
 Recommendations
UWWT plants; water power plant vs status; revision of
agricultural programmes (Nutrients, crop protection
products); Water quantity; natural disaster management
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Monitoring within a cyclic
procedure
Reporting
conceptual model
monitoring
design
modelling &
assessment
WFD and
Management
Objectives
sampling & field
measurements
Data management &
access
laboratory
analyses
quality requirements at each stage
Reporting is demand driven
 National requirements
 Transboundary cooperation & obligations
 International cooperation & obligations
One (Monitoring) for all (reporting)
Co-operation in preparation
Report preparation ≠ reporting submission
But who has the knowledge and capacity? (e.g. plausibility check
annual water flow in cubic meters per second)
cooperation between data owner, processor and interpretation
Data transfer – word file or internet based reporting tool?
Experts language, approach and definitions
• e.g. assessment of water quantity statues
• e.g. gap filling and data confidentiality (statisticians vs.
experts judgment
• e.g. UWWT Directive vs Water Statistics Reporting
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Contact & Information
Arnulf Schönbauer
Phone: +43 (1) 31304 -3573
Email: [email protected]
Umweltbundesamt
www.umweltbundesamt.at
Titel der Veranstaltung
Almaty ■ 11th June 2014
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