Air pollution is hard to escape, no matter where you live. Poor air quality has considerable economic impacts, increasing medical costs, reducing workers' productivity, and damaging soil, crops, forests, lakes and rivers. Air pollution can seriously affect your health and the environment. Online access to the air quality data is a corner stone of good environmental governance as it provides information to the citizens and decision makers. Reliable air quality data enables policy makers to take targeted actions. 

Under the ENI SEIS II East project the EEA advanced accessibility and use of air quality measurement data in the region by building capacity and providing methodology and IT tools based on the EU Air Quality Directives and the European Air Quality Index.   The project built on SEIS pillar of collaboration and focused on fostering collaborative and cross-functional approaches. Increasing the use and public accessibility of air quality measurement data contributed to the implementation of the Shared Environmental Information System.

 Country Factsheet on Air Quality 

In English:  Armenia // Azerbaijan // Belarus // Georgia // Republic of Moldova // Ukraine

In Russian:  Armenia // Azerbaijan // Belarus // Georgia // Republic of Moldova // Ukraine

© Arif Miletli, Sustainably Yours/EEA

Under the ENI SEIS II East project the EEA successfully delivered:

• Fact sheets for the six countries on their status of air quality monitoring and data management
• Applied European Union Air Quality Index methodology
• Two regional capacity building events (Copenhagen and Tbilisi) with five follow-up country visits (the visit to Belarus was cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak) out to gauge the current situation with legislation, institutional set-up and existing infrastructure (automatic stations, air quality information systems, databases, IT infrastructures, etc.) and deliver hands-on training on the open source e-reporting tool RAVEN developed by the EEA and its experts.
• Translated EMEP/EEA air pollutant emission inventory guidebook into Russian. This joint EMEP/EEA air pollutant emission inventory guidebook supports the reporting of emissions data under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) and the EU National Emission Ceilings Directive. It provides expert guidance on how to compile an atmospheric emissions inventory.

The full working software of RAVEN can be found at and downloaded from the open source repository GitLab: https://git.nilu.no/eea-tools/raven

RAVEN Software requirements, installation and user documentation can also be found under: https://git.nilu.no/eea-tools/raven

A demonstration version can be found at https://raven.nilu.no