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Information System - ETOX

Information System for Ecotoxicological Effect Data and Quality Targets

– Link-up to Environmental Decision Making

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Section IV 2.4Substances Hazardous to Water

Federal Environment AgencyBerlin

(Umweltbundesamt)

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Which elements do we need for the derivation of quality criteria?

Protocol for derivation

Effect data

Objectives

Library Data basesInternet

Derivation and Control

Information of the public

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Introduction ETOX is a information system, that includes effect data,

quality criteria for chemicals for the media water, soil and biota.

ETOX is used in the derivation process of German water quality criteria.

To develop quality criteria for priority substances according to European Water Frame Directive

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Information System - ETOX

Developement Goals Online Data Retrieval and Input Bilingual Web Page (German – English) Data input organised in projects Data exchange between authorities and research

institutes Exchange of information between authorities and public

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Data Input Projects

Ongoing Projects

LAWA-Projects

UmweltbundesamtImport GSBL-public

UmweltbundesamtUp date, German Quality Targets and Effect Data

DataPool

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Data Status and Release Process

Project: The record has not yet been released for further data review (private). The record is accessible only to users, who have access to the corresponding project.

Validation: The record was released for further checking by the verifying institution. Further editing in the project in not possible any longer.

Internal: After validation the record of a project can be first released for internal use.

Public: After final verification the record may be released to public users and can be researched by all users.

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Information System ETOX

SQL-Server Database

Web-Server

Web-ClientInternet

Search

Administration

Input

http://webetox.uba.de/webETOX/

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Outlook Water Quality Criteria for further Pesticides,

Pharmaceuticals and other priority pollutants (LAWA-Project)

Predicted No Effect Concentrations (PNEC) specified in the Risk Assessment Reports (planed)

Up date Canadian Environmental Quality Guidelines

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Thank you for your attention!

Dieter Schudomadieter.schudoma@uba.de

www.umweltbundesamt.de

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Searching effect data and quality targets in ETOX does not require any registration

Registered user:Data Input, Search of data restricted to projects or internal useAdministration:User, Projects, Master Data and Downloads

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Download reports with public access

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