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Serbian Environmental Protection Agency
SEPA AND EEA,
FIVE YEARS OF COOPERATION
Dejan Lekic
EEA NFP Serbia
Serbian Environmental Protection Agency
SEPA – Who we are?
 Serbian Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) was founded by
the Law on Ministries in 2004 as a specific organization within the
Ministry of environmental protection and it became operational in
November 2004.
 Main mission of SPEA is to ensure the availability of reliable data
and information on the state of the environment, essential for
effective environmental policy realization.
 SEPA has been established as a result of a need to have an
organization that will focus on gathering environmental data and
development of the National Information System for environmental
protection.
 Integrating the work of all the scientific, professional and educational
institutions, cooperating with international bodies, SEPA provides a
central point for data and information access and dissemination.
Previous Experience - CARDS
 SEPA also continued focusing its efforts on the establishment of the
National Automatic Air Quality Monitoring Network (funded from EU
CARDS project). Until now, national budget contributed to this
system by establishing 9 automatic air quality monitoring stations.
 Set of 28 automatic stations (together with one mobile automatic
station), provided through the support of EU, will be installed during
2009, covering the whole territory of Republic of Serbia.
 Establishment of the National Reference Air Quality Laboratory
(funded by EU CARDS and Serbian Environmental Fund) is ongoing
and its equipment will be installed till the end of 2009.
 The whole system, consisting of automatic air quality monitoring
network and national reference laboratory will lead to the creation of
an integrated air quality control, monitoring and analysis as well as
to the implementation of EU methodologies and standards in this
field.
Cooperation with ЕЕА
 SEPA has been also seen as a key national institution for communication and
cooperation with relevant bodies of European Union (EU), namely a National
Focal organization for collaboration with European Environment Agency (EEA).
 Contribution to the European wide EIONET (Information and Observation
network) data and information collecting and reporting system.
 In 2004, SEPA started active collaboration with EEA in providing first data on air
and water quality, trying to organize data collection procedures at the national
level, reaching very modest reporting level in reporting towards EEA within
priority data flows of only 17% (together with Montenegro).
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 During the year 2008/2009 SEPA
increased its reporting towards EEA in
both quantitative and qualitative way and
according to the EEA score Serbian level
of reporting reached 78%, a significant
improvement from previous years.
Serbian Reporting
Score and trend
2004-2009
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Godine
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Cooperation with ЕЕА
Evaluation of the
deliveries from
Serbia (2008-2009)
New activities – SOER 2010
 For the first time Serbia is involved, together with other WB countries, into the
European State of Environment Report 2010 (SOER 2010)
 Each country will contribute in three themes:
 Diversity
 Commonality
 Flexibility
 Serbia delivered all the requested documents within proposed timeline
Serbian deliveries at
the SOER Web site
SEPA – EEA - IPA 2008
IPA 2008 - "Assistance to Serbian Environment Protection Agency as
National focal point institution for cooperation with European Environment
Agency in strengthening the EIONET in Serbia" (1.6 mil. €):
 The global objective is to increase the capacity of the SEPA and its data
monitoring providers to carry out the monitoring and reporting responsibilities by
supporting the Republic of Serbia in honoring its domestic and international
environmental protection obligations.
 The specific objective is to design and
help establish a fully functional National
Environmental Information Network
(National EIONET) that will improve
(operational) reporting towards the EEA
and other relevant institutions.
Serbian National
EIONET Scheme
International Cooperation Projects – Near Future
 IPA 2009 - "Assistance to the Serbian Environmental Protection
Agency (SEPA) in the development and management of the Serbian
National Environmental Information System (SNEIS) as a component
of the European Shared Environmental Information System"
 "Establishment of the Environmental Management Center" (bilateral
support from Norway)
 "Extension of the participation of the WB countries in the activities of
EEA " (ЕЕА and EC support through IPA)
 "Strengthening Administrative Capacities for Implementation of Air
Quality Management System" (IPA 2007)
Serbia Progress Reports
 Serbia Progress Report 2007:
"... The Environmental Protection Agency continued to carry out a number of
tasks particularly in the areas of data collection and cooperation with the
European Environment Agency. An integrated cadastre of polluters in Serbia has
also been developed. However, the Agency lacks the necessary capacity to fully
implement the integrated monitoring strategy."
 Serbia Progress Report 2008:
"... The Environmental Protection Agency is fulfilling its tasks in the areas of data
collection and cooperation with the European Environment Agency. Its
performance is improving, but the Agency still lacks the capacity to ensure
proper implementation of the integrated monitoring strategy."
 Serbia Progress Report 2009:
"... The Serbian Environmental Protection Agency has maintained a good
level of cooperation with the European Environment Agency on the
European environment information and observation network."
"... The Environmental Protection Agency remains fully operational and its
performance is improving. However, it still lacks the capacity to ensure
proper implementation of the integrated monitoring strategy."
Where do we go?
Where IPA can help?
 Creation of the National Reference Centers for each particular
environmental theme according to the EEA methodology
 Establishment of the National Environmental Indicators as a
superset of EEA Indicators
 Creation and Implementation of the Integrated Monitoring
Strategy
 Design and Creation of the National Shared Environmental
Information System
 Fulfillment of all the international reporting obligations, reaching
100% score in EEA priority data flow reporting.
 Full EEA membership including active engagement in all the
EEA projects and activities.
Where IPA can help?
 We waited ten years to start the cooperation...
 We then waited almost ten years to start implementing European
methodologies and practices...
Help us to get involved in all activities right NOW!
SEPA AND EEA,
FIVE YEARS OF COOPERATION
Thank you for your attention
Dejan Lekic
EEA NFP Serbia