The National Environmental Remediation Programme in

HungaryLaura Lilla Koritár

Ministry of Environment and Water

Contaminated Sites Bratislava, 16-18. 06. 2008.

The National Environmental Remediation Programme (OKKP)

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

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)

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

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.

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

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

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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Industrial and trade sector

Technological material storage

Agricultural areas, objects

Other activities

Results of OKKP

• FAVI-ENG – 9233 clients, 22046 objects

• Publications – 4 handbooks, 7 guides, 10 booklets, 8 informative publications, 6 CD-s

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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

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

Thank you for your attention!

koritar@mail.kvvm.hu