EIONET – CIRCA Operation

Zoran Lozanovski

Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning

Joint EEA-UNEP “Regional Workshop on Environmental Information Management”

Skopje, 11- 13 April 2005

EIONET – MK• EIONET

– Collaborative network of the European Environment Agency and its Member Countries

– Macedonia (EIONET-MK) is part of the EIONET from September 2000

• http://nfp-mk.eionet.eu.int/

• CIRCA– A collaborative tool (Extranet) tuned towards Administrations’

needs– Web based environment: User friendliness– Sophisticated document repository– Access control: Fully configurable– Customisation and flexibility– Management: Decentralised & No need for HTML knowledge

EIONET – MK

EuroStat EC EEA OECD UNEP

NFP and other National Authorities

The Public and Decision-Makers

ETC

DG

DG

NRC

CURRENT DATAFLOW: Ad-hoc overlapping dataflows on email, floppy, fax, letter

EuroStat EC EEA OECD UNEP

NFP

The Public and Decision-Makers

ETCDG

DG

ReportNet

Target Dataflow

Current Data and Information Flow

EEA, EUROSTAT, UNECE, WHO, …

Industry

RHPI

Government / Non-government organizations

...

MEPP

HMA

WWW

Target DataflowReportNet

Macedonian Environmental Information Center

NRC• Air• Water• Waste• Soil• Noise• ...

Industry Institutions Statistic Office

State institutions

NGO’s ...

Media, and general public

MEIC - EIONET-MK

• On-line since September 2000

• Used for data/information exchange– National– International (EEA)

• Status: Latest Circa is running

• Problems

• Needs / Recommendations

MEIC Operation

DB

MEIC

WWW

EIONET

.xls.doc…

NEIS

MEIC – NEIS Concept

AIR, WATER, WASTE, …

E-MAILCLIENT APP.FILE IMPORT…

MOEPP WWWSTD. REPORTSPRO…

DB

MoEPP & MEIC - Establishment

MEIC

•Scope and Function

•Equipment (def. & procur.)

DMS - Assessment

NEIS - Blueprint

NEIS - development

NEIS – GIS Integration

NEIS ROADMAP

1998

Phare ‘97

REReP 1.8

Phare ‘97

Phare ‘99

MEIC – NEIS Target #

STD. REPORT

DB

MOEPP WWW

Target # Needs

• Simplified publishing

• Simplified access

• Integration with MEPP WWW

• Faster Internet connection

Solution:

• (Lite?) CIRCA (est. 2005-2006)

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