Information Management

7. INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

The process of information management begins with the obtaining of data by laboratories engaged in the TMP implementation. This data is entered into the primary databases of the corresponding laboratories. Then, in compliance with the information exchange procedure adopted in the national ecological monitoring systems, the data is transferred, in the format of measurement protocols accepted in the basin countries, to Reference Organisations identified in each country (see Chapter 6). Reference Organisations carry out data management according to the procedure adopted in the respective basin countries, and then transfer the monitoring data to the National Dnipro Information Centres (NDICs). NDICs together with the International Dnipro Information Centre (IDIC) further manage information as stipulated by the International Environmental Data Exchange Regulation, hereafter – the Regulation (see Appendix III to Agreement).

Information management within the framework of conducting expeditionary inspections of the basin and special studies is defined by the corresponding procedures for expeditionary activity and work specifications. In so doing, a database on expeditionary inspections at the national level is created and then the data is transferred to the international level as stipulated by the Regulation.

The main document reporting on the progress in TMP implementation is the TMP annual technical report. Its structure is given in Appendix II. The report is drafted by the Intergovernmental Working Group under the International Dnipro Centre for Pollution Monitoring (IDCPM). Technical reports are published in the form of a text document, which is submitted to the corresponding international and nation bodies of basin management and placed on the official web-site of the Programme.

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