The National Environmental Remediation Programme in Hungary

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The National Environmental Remediation Programme
in Hungary

• Laura Lilla Koritár
• Ministry of Environment and Water
• Contaminated Sites
• Bratislava, 16-18. 06. 2008.

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The National Environmental Remediation Programme
(OKKP)

• History
• Regulations
• Tasks of the OKKP
• Databases
• Results of the OKKP
• Developments in the future
• EU structural funds

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History

• Realization of the problem The Short- and Long
  Term Governmental Action Plan of 1991
• Starting point Governmental Decision No.
  2205/1996 (VII.24) adopted the National
  Environmental Programme
• Stages of the OKKP short-term (1997-98),
  medium-term (1998-2002), long term (2003-2030)

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Regulations

• Act LIII of 1995 on the general rules of
  environmental protection fundamental elements of
  protection
• The Government Decree No. 219/2004. (VII. 21.) on
  the protection of groundwater
• Joint Decree No. 10/2000. (VI.2.)
  KöM-EüM-FVM-KHVM on limit values established for
  the protection of groundwater and the geological
  medium
• Technical regulations

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Tasks of the OKKP

• The aim of the OKKP is to
• identify and register the threat and damage of
  the groundwater and the geological medium
• reduce the risk of pollution
• facilitate the reduction and elimination of
  pollution
• eliminate the damages of the surface water and
  the nature.

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Tasks of the OKKP

• General tasks direction, operation,
  coordination, legislation, RD activities, PR,
  domestic and international relations
• Countrywide tasks Environmental Register System
  of Groundwater and Goelogical Medium (FAVI), the
  National Remediation Priority List (NKPL),
  sub-programmes
• Individual remediation projects stages
  fact-finding, engineering interventions,
  post-monitoring

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Databases

• FAVI has 3 subsystems
• FAVI-KÁRINFO the database of contaminated sites
• FAVI-ENG the database of authorised activities
• FAVI-MIR the database of monitoring results
• NKPL
• Ranking registered contaminated sites
• Scheduling the remediation projects

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Results of OKKP

• Remedial activities 1994-2007 134,5 billion HUF
  from gov. sources
• FAVI-KÁRINFO 15 000 objects
• NKPL I 440 sites
• NKPL II 409 sites
• NKPL III 6 sites

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Results of OKKP

• FAVI-ENG 9233 clients, 22046 objects
• Publications 4 handbooks, 7 guides, 10
  booklets, 8 informative publications, 6 CD-s
• available at

www.kvvm.hu/szakmai/karmentes/kiadvanyok/index.htm
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Developments in the future

• continue collecting data completed with
  historical research
• tuning of the method of National Priority List
  integrated in FAVI-KÁRINFO
• develop the data content of the databases
• estabilish a relation between FAVI-KÁRINFO and
  Property Register

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EU Structural Funds

• Environment and Energy Operational Programme
  (EEOP)
• to promote sustainable development in Hungary
• 14 tenders to start in this year
• 2007-2013 of EEOP 37 billion HUF (cca. 148
  million EUR) is available
• Regional Development Operative Programmes -
  Redevelopment of brownfield areas
• Further information www.nfu.hu

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• Thank you for your attention!
• koritar_at_mail.kvvm.hu