Last update: 28/08/2009
Technical Documentation
Technical documents produced by the Institute, in collaboration
with other external structures, are available in this area of the
website.
Guidelines for the preparation of the monitoring plan
aimed to verify "the absence of threats to the waters and aquatic
ecosystems" resulting from the direct discharge into the sea of
waters resulting from the extraction of hydrocarbons. Ex Art.104,
paragraph 7 of the Legislative Decree 3 April 2006,
n.152.
Publication
Implementation of Directive 2000/60/EC - Classification of the
ecological status of water bodies attaining marine coastal and
transition waters.
Acid volatile
sulfides - AVS (Acid Volatile Sulphides)
Technical specifications cards for the
application of the regulations on the marine-coastal
environment
1) Methodological cards for assessing the Chemical
Status and for the analysis and sampling of biological quality
elements in the coastal marine
environment
ISPRA, both as former APAT and as
former ICRAM, has actively collaborated over the years with the
Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea for the development of
Protocols and analytical Methodologies aimed at the implementation
of the surveys, as provided by the marine environment Monitoring
Programs funded and held by the Ministry - Directorate of Nature
Protection - in collaboration with the coastal Regions, according
to Law 979/82.
At the end of 2001 the book “Analytical
Methods of Reference” was published.
In 2007-2008 ISPRA realised other technical specifications cards,
following attached under request of the Ministry of Environment.
They are used in analytical activities attaining the ongoing
Monitoring Programme. The cards were prepared by processing the
results of monintorig activities previously undertaken, financed by
the Ministry. They were prepared and shared among former APAT,
former ICRAM, Ministry of Environment and some Regional Agencies.
The cards of Posidonia and Macrozoobenthos were realised in
collaboration with experts of the University of Pavia and of the
Zoological Station "Anton
Dohrn" in Naples.
The following cards are also available on the analytical methods
adopted in the ongoing Monitoring Program, for the analysis of the
physical-chemical parameters and concentration of chemical
pollutants in water, sediment, Biot and analytical Methods for
waters realised by former APAT.
IThe contents of the methodological cards above available are also
applicable to the Community legislation being implemented, such as
Directive 2000/60/EC.
2) Technical reports concerning the criteria for
establishing a coastal typology in relation to Directive
2000/60/EC
3) Operational tools for the classification of the
ecological status of coastal and transitional waters,in relation to
Directive 2000/60/EC
IThe results of the research
contracts with the University of Pavia, Department of Ecology, and
with the Zoological Station "A. Dohrn" of Naples, the Laboratory of
Ecology of Benthos, for the development of appropriate
methodological protocols for the classification of the Italian
coastal waters through the Angiosperms (Posidonia oceanica) and
benthic Macroinvertebrates are shown in the attached Report.
These results are reported in a single document integrating both
the contracts referring to years 2005-2006 and 2007-2008. The
document sets out the path for the Mediterranean intercalibration
and the activities undertaken for the application of methodologies
developed for the Italian coastal waters.
As part of the scientific and technical support to the Ministry
of the Environment for the implementation of Directive 2000/60/EC
and for the preparation of Decrees, Ispra has defined the technical
proposal for an ecological classification system for marine-coastal
transition waters, which falls within the second phase of the
intercalibration. For the element of biological quality Macrophytes
(transitional waters) is available Guidline for a proper
application of the Macrophyte Quality Index (MaQI), prepared by
Professor Adrian Sfriso (University of Venice), author of the
index, in collaboration with ISPRA.
4) Technical specifications for the application of teh
in force regulations on transition systems
Implementation of Directive 2000/60/EC. Methodological
proposal for the analysis and evaluation of hydromorphological
aspects
