The EU aims to protect the environment and human health by ensuring cleaner industrial processes. As a result, the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) is drastically reducing harmful emissions to the air, water and soil....
Following a request from the Commission, the Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) reviewed the Guidance Document No. 27: ‘Technical Guidance for Deriving Environmental Quality Standards’ prepared by a collaborative framework (the Common Implementation Strateg...
Water quality is a critical factor to public health worldwide. Accidents in past and present documented the vulnerability of our water supply chain. Therefore fast, reliable, sensitive and cheap water-monitoring systems are needed, working independently at a low level of maintenance and hands on...
The use of effect-based tools has been mentioned in the context of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) guidance no.19 (on water chemical monitoring), in the CIS guidance no. 25 (on sediment and biota monitoring), and (in relation to sediment assessment...
