3. geographical and temporal coverage

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3. GEOGRAPHICAL AND TEMPORAL COVERAGE

3.1. Geographical Coverage

The geographical coverage for each database or monitoring programme varies depending on the scope of each programme. Table 3.1 shows the EEA area countries involved in each monitoring programme. Germany has the highest level of participation in monitoring programmes (a total of 27). Whilst some countries are signatories to Conventions and their associated monitoring programmes they have not reported data. For example, Spain and Luxembourg have not reported data for the Joint Monitoring Programme under the Oslo and Paris Conventions and no information is available from the Netherlands relating to monitoring carries out under the Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution.

Table 3.1 Countries involved in each database or monitoring programme

Database name

IRL

AMAP/Freshwater

AMHY

Baltic Monitoring Programme

Bucharest/85

CORINE/WATER

EC Bathing Waters Directive

EC Freshwater Fish Directive

EC Shellfish Waters Directive

Elbe/89

EUROSTAT Lakes

EUROSTAT Rivers

Exchange of Information Directive

FRIEND

GEMS/WATER

GRDC/WMO

HELCOM/PLCs

HYDABA/ICPR

ICES-Environmental databank*

JAMP/OSPAR94

Joint Monitoring Programme

LRTAP/ICP-IM

LRTAP/ICP-Water

MEDPOL

Monitoring Master Plan

PARCOM/Mercury

PARCOM/Radioactive

PARCOM/Refineries

PARCOM/Titanium Dioxide

Regensburg/87

SIREN-IW/OECD

The Dobris Assessment

Note* Also includes, Canada, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, USA

3.2. Temporal Coverage Per Country

The metadatabase contains information on the history of monitoring for 22 programmes. However, there is no information relating to that carried out for:

the Dobris Assessment;
the CORINE information system;
the Shellfish Water Directive;
he Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (fresh and salt water); and
the pollution land compilations monitoring under the Helsinki Convention.

The temporal information included covers the total number of years that sampling has been carried out for each EEA country (Table 3.2) and the year that monitoring started for each programme. Table 3.3 shows the number of years that monitoring has been carried out in non-EEA countries.

Table 3.2 Number of years of sampling per EEA country involved in each monitoring programme

Database name	A	B	D	DK	E	F	FI	GR	I	IRL	IS	L	N	NL	PT	S	UK
AMAP/Freshwater
AMHY					59	128	4	3	64						62
Baltic Monitoring Programme			15	15			15									15
Bucharest/85	7		7
CORINE/WATER
EC Bathing Waters Directive		8	8	8	8	8	1 (20*)	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
EC Freshwater Fish Directive										1				1			3
EC Shellfish Waters Directive
Elbe/89			5
EUROSTAT Lakes			13	1	11		21	7		14		11	19	10	6	21	11
EUROSTAT Rivers		14	19	15	21	12	3 (20^)	9	9	12		16		20	9		17
Exchange of Information Directive		14	15	15	6	15		10	15	15		15		15	6		15
FRIEND	31	11	31	53	31	25	50	3	28	24	41	8	37	23		40	25
GEMS/WATER		12	12	2	4	12	10		1			2	6	12	11	0	11
GRDC/WMO	25	8	51	37	23	25	69	3	25	7	39	8	39	44	12	23	22
HYDABA/ICPR			15			15								15
Joint Monitoring Programme		13	13	13		13				13			13	13	13	13	13
LRTAP/ICP-IM			6				6						7	4	4	12	6
LRTAP/ICP-Water	7	4	9	7	0		17			8			9			10	7
PARCOM/Mercury		11	11		11	11							11	11	11	11	11
PARCOM/Radioactive		6	6	6	6	6							6	6	6	6	6
PARCOM/Refineries		10	10		10	10				10	10		10	10	10	10	10
PARCOM/Titanium Dioxide		13	13	13	14	14				14	14		14	14	14	14	14
Regensburg/87	4		4
SIREN-IW/OECD	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13		13	13	13	13	13	13
The Dobris Assessment

Notes:
* 1 year as EU Member State, 20 years using same procedures as given in the Directive
^ 3 years of official data, 20 years of data in total

Table 3.3 Number of years of sampling per country outside the EEA area involved in each monitoring programme

Database name	AG	AL	BU	BY	CH	CY	CZ	EE	EP	GE	HR	HU	IL	LE	LI
AMHY			9		82
Baltic Monitoring Programme
Bucharest/85			7								7	7
Elbe/89							5
FRIEND			9		35		64
GEMS/WATER												12
GRDC/WMO		9	22		28	21	50			11		36
HELCOM/PLCs
HYDABA/ICPR					15
LRTAP/ICP-IM			NK	NK	4		4	NK		NK		5
LRTAP/ICP-Water			NK	NK			12					1
MEDPOL	NK	19				19			NK				19	NK	NK
PARCOM/Radioactive					1
SIREN-IW/OECD					13		13					13

Notes: NK Not known

Database name	LT	LV	MAL	MD	MO	PL	RO	RU	SI	SK	SY	TN	TR	UA	Y
AMHY							151		45						13
Baltic Monitoring Programme	3	3				16		14
Bucharest/85				7			7			7				7	7
Elbe/89										5
FRIEND							35	51	25	61					13
GEMS/WATER								11
GRDC/WMO	42	13		15		37	67	21			4			20	37
HELCOM/PLCs	NK	NK				NK		NK
HYDABA/ICPR
LRTAP/ICP-IM	1	1		NK		6	NK	5						NK
LRTAP/ICP-Water	NK	NK				4		4
MEDPOL			19		NK						NK	NK	19		19
PARCOM/Radioactive
SIREN-IW/OECD						13				13