Institute of Environmental Protection

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• Institute of Environmental Protection
• Maciej Sadowski
• Grazyna Porebska

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• The Institute of Environmental Protection RD
• The Institute of Environmental Protection was
  established in 1986 and is an independent RD
  unit acting under the Ministry of Environment.
• IEP staff consists of 92 research employees
  plus administrative and technical service.
• The main task- scientific and technical
  foundations of environmental protection (polices,
  methodologies, monitoring)

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• The Institute's research and development
  activity covers following fields of environmental
  issues
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• Programming of environmental research activities
  on national level
• Environmental policy - environment protection
  strategies on national level and programmes for
  local governments and enterprises including
  economic analyses
• Environmental monitoring
• measurements and analyses of surface and ground
  waters, waste waters, atmospheric precipitation,
  soil and sludge, gaseous and dust pollution, food
  and food products
• determining contents of range of elements
  including heavy metals, carbon, nitrogen and
  phosphorus, WWA, PCB compounds.

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• 1. Water protection- water protection
  policies,- programmes of water protection in
  catchment areas,
• - technical licensing for wastewater
  treatment and sewage sludge processing
  installations
• - expert opinions in the field of Polish
  legal regulations and requirements.

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• 2. Land protection- studies and projects of
  degraded land use, land reclamation, assessment
  of environmental risk from land degradation and
  waste dumping,- techniques and technologies of
  land reclamation, wastewater and sludge
  management,- monitoring of land degradation.

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• 3. Waste management- waste management
  programmes for local governments and
  enterprises,
• - hazardous waste management,- economic and
  legal analysis.

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4. Protection of the atmosphere- development of
measurement systems,- expertise in the choice of
measuring devices,- assessment of impact of
enterprises on the atmosphere,- elaboration of
factors and standards for selected industrial
processes.
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5. Climate change - Elaboration of the national
climate change policy - Support to the Ministry
on issues related to the - UNFCC and KP - GHGs
inventories - Participation in preparations to
the emission trading system (NAP, emission
projections, registries)
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• 6. Environmental acoustics
• - studies and assessment of noise pollution,
• - Elaboration of noise protection policies and
  measures,
• - development of measurements methods for the
  Environmental Monitoring Service,
• - development and update of legal acts on
  acoustics and environmental acoustics.

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7. Nature and landscape conservation- designing
of protected areas,- nature valorisation and
inventory,- opinions and projects in the scope
of sustainable tourism,- development of
protection plans for national and landscape
parks, - development of Clearing House Mechanism
on Biodiversity in Poland.
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• 8.    Environmental impact assessment

-  EIA of technologies, substances and
products,-  EIA of existing and modernised
objects.
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Examples of research projects carried out in the
Institute (over 40 completed in 2003 and 2004)on
national level 1.      National strategy of air
protection, 2.     Development and validation of
references analytic method for quantitive
analisys of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PPAs) and
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in stable
environmental matrix soils, sewage sludge and
plant materials. 3.      Emission inventory for
years 2001 and 2002 4.      Preparation of heavy
metal critical load maps as the Polish
contribution into research development for Aarhus
Protocol on Heavy Metals. 5.      Conditions and
rules of preparation of references materials for
identification best available techniques for
existing coking plants installations. 6.
Landscape parks in Poland
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• Participation IEP in international RD
  activitiesProjects
• STAR Standarisation of river classifications
• Reduction of dioxin emission from the
  metallurgical sector in Poland
• ERA_NET- SKEP-Scientific Knowledge of
  Environmental Protection
• GEMS Global and regional Earth-system
  Monitoring using Satellite and in-situ data
• SAFE SME Action for the Environment in
  Candidate Countries
• NETs
• ACCENT Atmospheric Composition Change an
  European Network
• Food Safety
• Pathway of pollutants and mitigation strategies
  of their impact on the ecosystems
• ENVITECH-net including 67 polish scientific
  entities