environmental information system in hungary agnes martosné bartha

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Environmental Information System in Hungary

Agnes Martosné Bartha

Aarhus Convention’s Task Force on Electronic Tools

2nd Meeting 26-27. January 2004

Geneva

GRID BudapestGRID BudapestMinistry of Environment and WaterMinistry of Environment and Water

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Main tasks of the Ministry:

elaboration of governmental policy

preparation of legal measures and control of efficiency

preparation of Government’s decision making

winning the public over to environment protection

information of decision makers and citizens

international co-operation

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Basic structure

Deputy State Secretary for Environmental Protection, for Nature Conservation, for Water Affairs

12 Environmental Inspectorate

12 Water Directorates

12 Water Inspectorates

10 National Park Directorates

Environmental Management Institute (KGI)


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Institutes collect data concerning of the environment :Ministry of Environment and Water

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

Ministry of Economic Affairs

Ministry for Information and Telecommunication

Ministry of Health

Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO)

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Data bymeasurement - monitoring (sampling, on-line)

statistical sampling, data collection

official control (measurement, penalty)

self report

remote sensing

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Accesibility of data

Constitution (1949) Act on Data Protection (1992) Act on Statistics (1993) Act on the General Rules of Environmental

Protection (1995)Cabinet Order on National Statistical Data Collection Programme (1998) - yearly up-dated Ratification of the Aarhus Convention (2001)

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Environmental Information System - what for?

Help to formulate environmental policyGive background for legislationEnsure public acces to the information

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What was the situation at the beginning ?

out of date legal regulation

not harmonized data-collection

separate databases

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New legal framework•Act

on the General Rules of Environmental Protection (1995) on Nature Conservation (1996) on Regional Development & Regional Planning (1996)on Housing and Construction (1997)on Waste Management (2000)

• National Environment Programme (1997)• National Concept of Regional Policy (1997)

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International co-operation

• OECD/EU biannual data collection on the state of the

environment and environmental expenditures of society

• EU (EEA) connection to the EIONET network Dobøiš+3 Report EU’98 ReportKIEV’2003 European SoE Riport

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Publications• Environmental Indicators

Environmental Indicators of Hungary 2000; 2002Main Environmental Indicators of Hungary 2000; 2002; Main Environmental Indicators of Hungary 2003 (mini

CD) Key Environmental Indicators of Hungary 2002Environmental Pressure Indicators of Hungary 2003 (joint

publication with HCSO, in Hungarian only)• Environmental Data

Environmental Statistical Data of Hungary (yearbook of HCSO since 1996)

OECD Environmental Data Compendium (biannual publication since 1997, in Hungarian)

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Ministry’s Information Centre (GRID-Budapest) - NFPInstitutes belonging to the Ministry - NRCOther ministries & institutesInternational co-operation (EEA, OECD, UNEP)

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Data dissemination

inspectorates, directorates, national parks (regional level)

Ministry/ UNEP/GRID-Budapest/KGI (national level - aggregated data)

EIONET/thematic centres with GIS databasebiannual report on the state of the environment (for

the Parliament)

information for decision makers and publicPublic Service Office

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Connection to EU/EIONET networkStructure of Hungarian EIONET members Water (Final Report of VITUKI Rt. „Performing

the Tasks of the EEA’s EUROWATERNET System in Hungary for Surface Waters and Groundwater”)

Terrestrial Environment Air and Climate Change Natural protection and Biodiversity Waste and Material Flows

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Connection to EU/EIONET network

Objectives

Description

National Reference Centres EIONET Legislation Link-up of the National EIONET Institutions Data Modelling

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Projects in order to meet Objectives (1.)National Reference Centres results of the survey and comparison list of Hungarian institutions to be join to EIONET reasons why these institutions are on the list suggestions for measures to be taken to transform

institutions to be members of the EIONET

EIONET Legislation

Institutional network needs elaboration of legal, organisational and financial background and basis.

Governmental decree.

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Projects in order to meet Objectives (2.)Link-up of the National EIONET Institutions equipment supply determining the hardware

development of the different institutions basic software supply construction of the network (institutions with

each other and national centre) software - specific unified data exchange standards training of staff

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Projects in order to meet Objectives (3.) Data Modelling environmental and integrated environmental-economical

models information for decision makers, environmental politics

and general public PUBLIC:

WWW.KVVM.HUEEA:http://nfp-hu.eionet.eu.int

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Web server Internet Map Sever

Database server

no direct communication between the web server and the database server shared resources higher security

map request

created map

SQL query result of the query

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