Italian Committee of United Cities ( C ICU)

1. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 Databases of dangerous substances: identification, main features

2. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 GEOENVIRON Scope of activity: illegal landfills, various industrial activities Location: SHMU, VUVH Contact persons: SHMU: dr. P. Roncak – peter.roncak@shmu.sk VUVH: dr. M. Holubec, PhD – holubec@vuvh.sk MoE: Mrs. E. Fatulova fatulova.elena@enviro.gov.sk

3. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 Information contained:8,132 waste disposal sites (municipal, agric., construction, wood processing, sludges, manufact.) + 533 industrial sites. Information collected via questionnaires to industry: however only 103 questionnaires returned out of 216 distributed. Landfills are divided according to organic and non-organic waste. Theoretical coverage at national level should be about 30,000 sites. Best coverage in Michalovce District.

4. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 Main feature: adoption of scoring system of sub-risks for: a) soil, b) ground water, c) land-use. Each sub-risk is further divided. A+B+C produce the combined scoring of risk for the site being investigated: >50: potential environmental risk is high 44 - 49: potential environmental risk is medium <43: potential environmental risk is low On this basis, sites are prioritised for decision-making.

5. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 Main features of sub-risks (a) **: Soil: class (score from 0 to 12 for the 3 classes), changes in the property of top soil (vulnerability – 3 classes, score from 0 to 6), Contaminants: mobility, toxicity and degradation (score from 0 to 6 - mobility; 0 to 4 - toxicity; 1 to 4 - degradation).

6. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 Main features of sub-risks (b) **: Ground water: proven effects (score 20 to 25), distance from recipient (score 2 to 5); contaminants: mobility (score 0 to 6), toxicity (score 0 to 4), and degradation (score 1 to 4).

7. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 Main features of sub-risks (c) **: Land use: existing use, vulnerability, exposure of humans to contaminants especially in toxicity terms, location of contaminants, risk of landfill explosions.

8. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 Future steps required GeoEnviron results from a Danish-funded project (1998 to 2001), continued under Slovak funding (2003 to 2004). Ministry of Environment shall decide upon future funding to continue work, especially to insert paper version of data available at district offices and deliver associated training to use database. Ministry considers GeoEnviron a useful tool.

9. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 LABOD Database Scope of activity: only for waste water treatment companies; unsuitable for industrial data and information on discharge of dangerous substances. Location: VUVH Contact persons: VUVH: dr. M. Holubec, PhD – holubec@vuvh.sk

10. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 Components of LABOD 1. Waste water to be treated 2. Information on producers of waste water treated 3. Kind of technology used in treatment process 4. Efficiency of treatment process: data from discharged waters into water bodies

11. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 Information available via LABOD All info is published in a yearbook available to the public. Info available: SS, BOD, COD, total N, NO3, NO2, NH4, PO4, oils, quantities of waste water treated, data on primary and secondary treatments, efficiency of treatment, technology used. The yearbook is specific for each water treatment company and each plant within this.

12. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 RISO Database Scope of activity: kind of waste; approved landfills Location: SAZP (Env. Protection Agency) Contact: www.riso.sazp.sk (public) Mrs. M. Kissova - kissova@sazp.sk Mrs. K. Lenkova - lenkova@sazp.sk (trans-boundary movement of hazardous waste) Known to regional/district offices as legally required to transmit information to RISO.

13. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 Information contained (a): Waste: producer, kind of waste produced (disposed or re-used recycled), code of waste according to the EC catalog, division between hazardous or non-hazardous, and location (on regional basis). Landfills: data from a SAZP internal database (no specific name). Waste treatment stations: number, location, process adopted.

14. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 Information contained (b): Transport of hazardous waste, within Slovakia only. Trans-boundary transport unavailable as is banned under the Basel Convention except for PCBs, mainly exported to France for final treatment. In 2002, 40 kg of PCBs, PCBBs and PCTs exported.

15. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 Stock and marketing of dangerous substances in Slovakia (a) Information available via the Centre for Chemical Substances and Preparation (Bratislava). Info on new substances notified transits via the Chemical Bureau (Ispra, Italy). Electronic address: www.cchlp.sk under Links/ databases: Chemical substances on the market in the SR; biocidal products placed on the market in SR.

16. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 Stock and marketing of dangerous substances in Slovakia (b) See under competent authorities: Toxicological Information Centre – provides with information to medical doctors on chemical substances, antibiotics and various toxic substances, including statistics and various sector databases. www.healthnet.sk

17. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 GEOFOND Scope: ground water data collected in boreholds, availability at national level of ground water, excluding thermal water Location: State Geological Survey (SGUDS) Contact persons: Dr. Gargulak – gargulak@gssr.sk Mrs. E. Zacharova – zacharova@gssr.sk

18. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 Kind of data – 8 categories 1. abandoned mining sites 2. planning of mining explorations divided for metal and non-metal resources 3. register of borehols 4. geo-physics 5. geo-chemistry 6. register of geological maps 7. register of landslides 8. register of illegal landfills

19. Italian Committee of United Cities (CICU) Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute PHARE - twinning Project SK02/IB/EN01 Data on dangerous substances Collection started end of 2004 in cooperation with SHMU, it appears not yet according to requirements of Directive 76/464 (e.g. difference between List I and II). Before data were targeted only to identify the possibility / impossibility to drink water.