Environmental Reporting and Information Exchanges in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries: Current situation and preliminary needs assessment in Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Tunisia and Israel
The information contained in this report is the outcome of the compilation and analysis of information and documents available within SMAP Clearinghouse, completed by the information collected in the four above-mentioned countries in the course of SMAP RMSU expert missions, and by the main conclusions of national meetings, namely those centred on current national capacities in terms of using and contributing effectively towards the EU and regional environmental information exchange systems.
The report is made up as follows:
• The first part summarises
the principal international and regional environmental conventions
signed and ratified by all the South and East Mediterranean countries,
and the reporting obligations entailed in said Conventions.
Furthermore, there is a short overview of environmental programmes
dealing, among other things, with pollution in the Mediterranean, such
as Med Pol, SMAP, Medstat and EMWIS, which have developed an
environmental – and sometimes data - information exchange and
management system. This chapter has been drafted both in French and
English.
• The second part describes current status of environmental information
and reporting in the four countries visited, namely Egypt, Syria,
Tunisia and Morocco, with an additional chapter on Israel which was the
object of a simple desk study. For each country there is an overview of
the national and international institutional framework (reminder);
national institutions involved in reporting activities, and mechanisms
setup for environmental information exchange and processing; existing
reports; national environmental information and data management
systems, and capacity-building requirements. The strengths and
weaknesses of environmental information management, institutional and
legal constraints, as well as national capacity-building requirements
in the field of environmental information exchange and management have
been compiled during the national meetings. The national reports have
been drafted in English for Syria, Egypt and Israel, in French for
Tunisia and Morocco.
--
English version
http://smap.ew.eea.europa.eu/media_server/files/J/i/Report_EN.pdf
Version française
http://smap.ew.eea.europa.eu/media_server/files/z/b/Report_FR.pdf
Contact information |
SMAP RMSU
(email: rmsu2@isprambiente.it) |
---|---|
News type | Inbrief |
File link |
http://www.emwis.net/initiatives/smap/fol013717/Jan2009_RMSU_Report_EN.pdf/ |
Source of information | SMAP RMSU |
Keyword(s) | EU-SMAP, EU-MEDSTAT-ENV, Horizon2020, EMWIS, MEDPOL |
Subject(s) | RIGHT , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY |
Relation | http://www.semide.net/initiatives/smap |
Geographical coverage | Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Tunisia, Israel |
News date | 04/05/2009 |
Working language(s) | ENGLISH , FRENCH |