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6. LABORATORIES TAKING PART IN TMP. MEASUREMENT QUALITY CONTROL
Laboratories responsible for TMP execution were determined based on the following criteria:
- accreditation of laboratories in the field of testing in accordance with TMP requirement;
- territorial assignment of functions regulated by the national systems of surface-water monitoring;
- availability of conditions for information exchange within the TMP.
Table 3 lists laboratories and organisations engaged in implementation of the TMP’s basic programme.
Table 3. List of laboratories and organisations taking part in implementation of TMP basic programme
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Laboratories |
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2 |
3 |
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Republic of Belarus (Ministry of Nature) |
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1 |
Regional laboratories on the territory of the Vitebsk region |
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2 |
Regional laboratories on the territory of the Mogilyov region |
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3 |
Regional laboratories on the territory of the Brest region |
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4 |
Regional laboratories on the territory of the Gomel region |
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5 |
Hydrobiology laboratory of Centre on Radiological Control and Environmental Monitoring |
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6 |
Radiological laboratory of Centre on Radiological Control and Environmental Monitoring |
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7 |
Central laboratory of the RB Ministry of Nature (Analytical Control Department) |
RO[5] |
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Russian Federation |
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8 |
Laboratory of the Programme Management Team in the Smolensk Region – ITC “Ecology” |
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9 |
Laboratory of the Federal United Enterprise “Tsentrregionvodkhoz”, Klintsy town, Bryansk region |
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10 |
TC “Kursk-Geomonitoring” Laboratory |
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11 |
Laboratory of the Federal United Enterprise “Belgorod Water Reservoir” |
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12 |
Federal United Enterprise “Tsentrregionvodkhoz” under the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia |
RO |
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Ukraine |
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13 |
Laboratory of the Rivne Main Department of Ecology and Natural Resources |
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14 |
Kyiv-based Central Municipal Department Laboratory |
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15 |
Central Laboratory of the Dniprovskiy Basin Water Resources Department |
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16 |
Laboratory of the Sumy Main Department of Ecology and Natural Resources |
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17 |
Laboratory of the Zhytomyr Main Department of Ecology and Natural Resources |
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18 |
Laboratory of the Kherson Main Department of Ecology and Natural Resources |
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19 |
Laboratory of the Chernihiv Main Department of Ecology and Natural Resources |
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20 |
Svitlovodsk-based Central Municipal Laboratory |
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21 |
Ukraine’s Research Institute of Environmental Problems |
RO |
Material-Technological and Methodological Base for TMP Implementation
One of the TMP’s objectives is to form the instrumentation base at the laboratories of the three basin countries, which would allow the use of modern methods of analysis and guarantee the obtaining of reliable, valid and comparable information. In forming the TMP’s material-technological base, the main approach consists in using and implementing the instrumentation and methodological base which correspond to the accepted international practice in the sphere of surface-water monitoring.
Appendix I contains recommended methods of quantitative measurements (Table 1) and the list of equipment (Table 2) needed for implementing methods of water-quality analysis adopted in the TMP.
The equipment is generally delivered during Stages 1 and 2. The main criteria for choosing the laboratory equipment are:
- to complete laboratories with instruments needed for TMP implementation;
- to gradually replace morally and physically obsolete equipment.
Measurement Quality Control
Quality measurements within the TMP framework are ensured by conducting:
- internal and external auditing of laboratories;
- inter-laboratory comparative analyses (ILCAs).
At the national level, quality of measurements is ensured by carrying out internal and external auditing of the analysis procedure specified by the Quality Assurance Manual of each laboratory and carrying out ILCAs with the involvement of laboratories of the country participating in the TMP. At the international level, measurement quality control is ensured by conducting ILCAs with the involvement of laboratories of TMP member-countries.
The frequency of conducting ILCAs at each level is at lest once a year. ILCAs in each country are carried out by a laboratory under the Reference Organisation, which organises the development of the ILCA programme, preparation of samples for analysis, sending these samples to laboratories, data gathering and processing, and subsequent evaluation of the results and provision of recommendations for each laboratory.
The organising of ILCAs in the TMP member-countries as well as the processing of their results is carried out by the intergovernmental working group under the Kharkiv-based International Dnipro Centre for pollution monitoring.
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[5] EO – Reference Organisation that takes part in the observation quality assurance programme and serves as a basis for organising and conducting periodic expeditionary inspections and special studies within the TMP framework.
