The National Environmental Remediation Programme in Hungary

1. The National Environmental Remediation Programme in Hungary Laura Lilla Koritár Ministry of Environment and Water Contaminated Sites Bratislava, 16-18. 06. 2008.

2. The National Environmental Remediation Programme (OKKP) • History • Regulations • Tasks of the OKKP • Databases • Results of the OKKP • Developments in the future • EU structural funds

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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.

6. Tasks of the OKKP • General tasks: direction, operation, coordination, legislation, R+D 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Thank you for your attention! koritar@mail.kvvm.hu