Event/ date: WB WS UWWTD & emissions, 18-19.06.13, SkopjeAuthor: Anita Künitzer1

West Balkan Regional workshop on Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) and SoE emissions to water,

18 – 19 June 2013, Skopje, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Introduction

By Anita Künitzer, ETC/ICM Manager

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Time Plan for WB water project

The ETC/ICM West Balkan project runs from October 2012 to November 2013.

 •The country visits will take place as follows:•Country visit 1 in country Albania in October•Country visit 2 in country Macedonia in [date tbd]

•The regional workshops take place as follows:•Regional workshop on water quantity in Skopje,10/11 January 2013•Regional workshop on emissions to water/UWWTD in Skopje, 18/19 June 2013

Event/ date: WB WS UWWTD & emissions, 18-19.06.13, SkopjeAuthor: Anita Künitzer

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Regional workshop on emissions to water/UWWTD (1)

Proposed work on emissions to water including a regional workshop:

•Development of questionnaire of existing information about point sources emissions and proxy data for West Balkan countries

•Inventory of existing data and gaps; general proposal of substitution of gaps by proxy data (e.g. number of inhabitants, p.e.), including methodology

•Calculation of missing data about emissions according to the agreed methodology, result be sent one month before regional meeting

•Regional workshop: Information of the status of existing and calculated data to be presented to the WB countries at the regional workshop (June 2013). Back to back discussion on the specific issues, problems, inconsistencies with individual WB countries. Presentation of harmonization of emission data for different purposes.

Event/ date: WB WS UWWTD & emissions, 18-19.06.13, SkopjeAuthor: Anita Künitzer

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Regional workshop on emissions to water/UWWTD (2)

Proposed work on UWWTD incl. workshop:

•Questionnaire regarding the current status of UWWTD data availability and the availability of data for CSI 024

•On the basis of data availability , specific plans for the use of data should be proposed per country and the plan for support presented and discussed bilaterally

•Provision of support in data compilation and submission

•Data QAQC

•Regional workshop: Information of the status of data compilation to be presented to the WB countries at the regional workshop (June 2013). Back to back discussion on the specific issues, problems, data gaps with individual WB countries. Presentation of draft update of CSI 24 with WB data, and draft UWWTD WISE maps.

•Final processing of submitted data. Finalization of WISE maps, data viewer, CSI 024 update that includes WB data by September 2013

Event/ date: WB WS UWWTD & emissions, 18-19.06.13, SkopjeAuthor: Anita Künitzer

UWWTD data viewer

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Reporting to the European Environment Agency

1. Priority data flows2. WISE data requests for Directives

Event/ date: WB WS UWWTD & emissions, 18-19.06.13, Skopje Author: Anita Künitzer

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