is one of the international research Centres of the EMEP programme operating under the LRTAP Convention of UNECE.
The Centre focuses its efforts on model assessment of the environment pollution with various toxic substances.
In the framework of cooperation with the Helsinki Commission, MSC-E performs regular evaluation of airborne pollution load of HMs and POPs to the Baltic Sea. This work is carried out in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding between the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN ECE) and is based on the long-term EMEP/HELCOM contract.
In 2020 activity was focused on the evaluation of Cadmium, Lead, Mercury, PCDD/Fs, PCB-153, and B(a)P pollution of the Baltic Sea. Results of the assessment were summarized in the Joint report of the EMEP Centres for HELCOM [Gauss et al., 2020] and presented in the indicator fact sheets.
Joint EMEP SB/WGE Bureaux meeting, March 2021
Heavy metal and POP pollution assessment: Progress and plans
6th Joint session of the Working Group on Effects and the Steering Body to EMEP, September, 2020
Assessment of heavy metal pollution within EMEP
Assessment of POP pollution in EMEP region: current progress and further activities
Task Force on Measurement and Modelling, May, 2020
Progress in MSC-E activities on research and assessment of POP pollution in the EMEP region
TF HTAP Workshop on Hg Trends and Source Attribution - 13 April (online)
Regional and Extra-regional Contribution to POPs - 15 April (online)
22nd Meeting of the Task Force on Measurement and Modelling, online
10 - 12 May
MSC-E Technical Report 2/2020 |
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MSC-E activity (Case study on Spain and France) |
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Country activities (Italy, Spain, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, UK) |
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REACH regulation |
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EEA Report "Air quality in Europe - 2019 report" |
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ETC/ACM Technical Paper 2016 |
UBA Report 2016 "Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons |
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- Harmful to the Environment! Toxic! Inevitable?" |
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ETC/ACM Report 2015 |
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CHMI Report "Air Pollution in the Czech Republic in 2013" |