Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service DHMZ

"... provide governments with information on the deposition and concentration of air pollutants as well as on the quantity and significance of long-range transmission of pollutants and fluxes across boundaries. Information on the relative importance of local and distant sources resulting from such a programme will guide national authorities in setting appropriate local and regional permissible emission levels, taking into account international implications of these levels. The information on the deposition and concentration of air pollutants will be a basis of abatement strategies in the regions affected"

1. Fine particulate matter and human health;
2. The recovery of acidified soils and ecosystems;
3. Tropospheric ozone and human health, vegetation and ecosystems;
4. Eutrophication; Reactive nitrogen compounds and human health and ecosystems;
5. Nitrogen dioxide and human health;
6. Persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and human health and ecotoxicological effects; and
7. Urban air quality and human health.

SCIENCE - EMEP establishes sound scientific evidence and provides guidance to underpin, develop and evaluate environmental policies;

PARTNERSHIP - EMEP fosters international partnership to find solutions to environmental problems;

OPENNESS - EMEP encourages the open use of intellectual resources and products;

SHARING - EMEP is transparent and shares information and expertise with research programmes, expert institutions, national and international organizations, and environmental agreements; and

ORGANIZATION - EMEP is organized to integrate information on emissions, environmental quality, effects and abatement options, and to provide the basis for solutions.

1. Instrumentation and other techniques for monitoring and measuring emission rates and ambient concentrations of air pollutants (art. 7 (b));
2. Improved models for a better understanding of the transmission of long-range transboundary air pollutants (art. 7 (c));
3. Meteorological and physico-chemical data relating to the processes during transmission (art. 8 (e));
4. The need to use comparable or standardized procedures for monitoring whenever possible (art. 9 (b));
5. The establishment of monitoring stations and the collection of data under the national jurisdiction of the country in which the monitoring station is located (art. 9 (c));
6. The establishment of a framework for a cooperative environmental monitoring programme, based on and taking into account present and future national, subregional and other international programmes (art. 9 (d));
7. The desirability of extending the national EMEP networks to make them operational for control and surveillance purposes (art. 9 (i)).
8. Countries are required to provide information on emissions for use in the model calculations.