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ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT<br />

• calculation of a PECregional on the basis of a st<strong>and</strong>ardised regional environment with<br />

agreed model parameters;<br />

• calculation of a PECregional on the basis of country specific model parameters.<br />

A st<strong>and</strong>ardised regional environment should be used <strong>for</strong> the first approach in the calculation of<br />

PECregional. When more specific in<strong>for</strong>mation is available on the location of production<br />

/emission sites, this in<strong>for</strong>mation can be applied to refine the regional assessment. The second<br />

approach may sometimes result in a better estimation of the concentrations <strong>for</strong> a specific<br />

country. However, depending on the in<strong>for</strong>mation on production site location, it will lead to a<br />

number of different PEC values which makes a risk characterisation at EU level more<br />

complicated.<br />

Calculations are per<strong>for</strong>med <strong>for</strong> a densely populated area of 200 .200 km with 20 million<br />

inhabitants. Unless specific in<strong>for</strong>mation on use or emission per capita is available, it is assumed<br />

that 10% of the European production <strong>and</strong> use takes place within this area, i.e. 10% of the<br />

estimated emission is used as input <strong>for</strong> the region. The model parameters proposed <strong>for</strong> this<br />

st<strong>and</strong>ard region are given in Table 12. It should be noted that it is extremely difficult to select<br />

typical or representative values <strong>for</strong> a st<strong>and</strong>ard European region. There<strong>for</strong>e, the rationale behind<br />

the values of Table 12 is limited. Nevertheless, these values present a starting point <strong>for</strong> the<br />

regional scale assessments. Characterisation of the environmental compartments <strong>for</strong> the<br />

regional model should be done according to the values in Table 5.<br />

Table 12 Proposed model parameters <strong>for</strong> regional model<br />

Parameter Value in regional model<br />

area of the regional system 4.104 km 2<br />

area fraction of water 0.03<br />

area fraction of natural soil 0.60<br />

area fraction of agricultural soil 0.27<br />

area fraction of industrial/urban soil 0.10<br />

mixing depth of natural soil 0.05 m<br />

mixing depth of agricultural soil 0.2 m<br />

mixing depth of industrial/urban soil 0.05 m<br />

atmospheric mixing height 1000 m<br />

depth of water 3 m<br />

depth of sediment 0.03 m<br />

fraction of the sediment compartment that is aerobic 0.10<br />

average annual precipitation 700 mm . yr-1<br />

wind speed 3 m . s-1<br />

residence time of air 0.7 d<br />

residence time of water 40 d<br />

fraction of rain water infiltrating soil 0.25<br />

fraction of rain water running off soil 0.25<br />

EU average connection percentage to STP 80%<br />

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