Latest ETC Reports (included in homepage)

ETC/BD Technical paper 1/2020: Report for a list of Annex I habitat types important for Pollinators

ETC/BD Technical paper 3/2020: Impact caused by Invasive Alien Species of Union concern on habitats and species of the Nature Directives and Natura 2000 sites

ETC/BD Working paper B/2019: A list of priority habitats requiring spatial connectivity and their restoration potential, in the framework of Action 12 of the Nature Action Plan (update)

ETC/ATNI Report 6/2019: EEA-33 Industrial Emissions Country Profiles. Methodology report.

The industrial emissions country profiles present the emissions of air and water pollutants and greenhouse gases in fact sheets for each country. The significance of industry, given by gross value added, energy consumption and water use, as well as generation of waste are added to the presentation. The trend in emissions and waste generation are given in relative numbers. The scope of industry in this respect includes in short all industrial activities reported under the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) excluding agriculture (activity code 7.(a) and 7.(b)). The data sources to the country profiles include Eurostat, the E-PRTR, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reported under the Monitoring Mechanism Regulation (MMR) and air pollutant emission inventories reported under the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP).

ETC/ATNI Report 9/2019: European air quality maps for 2017. PM10, PM2.5, Ozone, NO2 and NOx spatial estimates and their uncertainties.

The paper provides the annual update of the European air quality concentration maps and population exposure estimates for human health related indicators of pollutants PM10 (annual average, 90.4 percentile of daily means), PM2.5 (annual average), ozone (93.2 percentile of maximum daily 8-hour means, SOMO35, SOMO10) and NO2 (annual average), and vegetation related ozone indicators (AOT40 for vegetation and for forests) for the year 2017. The report contains also NOx annual average concentration map for 2017. The trends in exposure estimates in the period 2005-2017 for PM10 and ozone, resp. in the period 2007-2017 for PM2.5 are summarized. The analysis is based on interpolation of annual statistics of the 2017 observational data reported by EEA Member countries in 2016 and stored in the Air Quality e-reporting database. The mapping method is the Regression – Interpolation – Merging Mapping. It combines monitoring data, chemical transport model results and other supplementary data using linear regression model followed by kriging of its residuals (residual kriging). The paper presents the mapping results and gives an uncertainty analysis of the interpolated maps.