BALTIC SEAENVIRONMENT PROCEEDINGS No. 59 - Helcom

The Duties of EGAP
HELCOM SEMINAR
Riga, Latvia
30. August - 3. September 1993
EC EGAP
Expert Group on Air Pollution
Niels 2. Heidam, Chairman
National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark
According to the Terms of Reference the main duties of EGAP are
June 1993
A. To advise the Environment Committee on monitoring and assessment of the state of
airborne pollution in the Baltic Sea and cooperate with other international organisa-
tions that are concerned with long range transport and deposition of air pollution.
B. To advise the EC on the need for measures to reduce emissions of air pollution that
influence the Baltic Sea.
C. To prepare emission inventories for harmful substances that are deposited from the
atmosphere to the Baltic Sea in significant quantities.
The Aims of EGAP Monitoring
To fulfil1 these duties the participating countries have set up a network of monitoring
stations in the Baltic Sea area. The aims of this monitoring programme are
1.
2.
To collect and provide data that enable the dry and wet deposition of airborne
pollutants and their variation in time and space over the Baltic Sea to be estimated.
The anthropogenic pollutants of concern are those that may cause eutrophication or
toxic bioaccumulation.
To measure on a monthly basis - from at least one station in each country - con-
centrations in air and precipitation of such eutrophicating or bioaccumulating
components.
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