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2. THE IEDB CONTENT AND COMPOSITION
The Rules and Procedure provide for the regular updating of summary information on the following five thematic components of the IEDB:
Component 1: Surface Water Resource Quantity and Uses;
Component 2: Surface Water Quality;
Component 3: Pollution Hot Spots in the Basin;
Component 4: Biodiversity;
Component 5: Legislation and regulatory framework.
Component 1 – Surface Water Resources and Uses:
The regular updating of information will be provided for the following parameters:
- Locations of water monitoring sites (see Table 1, Annex 2 “Transboundary Monitoring Programme for the Dnipro Basin” to the Agreement);
- Flow rates (m3/s);
- Wastewater discharges into surface water bodies:
- Total volume of discharges (thousand m3);
- Total volume of wastewater discharged without any treatment (thousand m3);
- Total volume of insufficiently treated wastewater discharges (thousand m3);
- Total volume of wastewater discharges treated to the standard (thousand m3);
- Total volume of uncontaminated wastewater discharges that meet the standard without prior treatment (thousand m3);
- Quality parameters of wastewater discharges:
- BOD5 in wastewaters discharged into water bodies (tonnes);
- Oil products in wastewaters discharged into water bodies (tonnes);
- Ammonium nitrogen in wastewaters discharged into water bodies (tonnes);
- Nitrate nitrogen in wastewaters discharged into water bodies (tonnes).
Component 2 – Surface Water Quality:
- Locations of monitoring sites;
- General physical and physical/chemical characteristics of water quality:
- Suspended solids (mg/dm3);
- pH;
- Oxygen regime:
- Dissolved oxygen (О2) (mg/dm3);
- Mineral salts and ion concentrations in water:
- Chlorides (Cl) (mg/dm3);
- Sulphates (SO4) (mg/dm3);
- Mineralisation (mg/dm3);
- Organic substances in water:
- Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) (mgО2/dm3);
- Nutrients in water:
- Ammonium nitrogen (NH4) (mg N/dm3);
- Nitrate nitrogen (NO2) (mg N/dm3);
- Phosphates (PO43-) (mg P/dm3);
- Heavy metals in water:
- Copper (Cu) (mg/dm3);
- Zinc (Zn)(mg/dm3);
- Manganese (Mn)(mg/dm3);
- Total iron (Fetotal) (mg/dm3);
- Toxic organic contaminants in water;
- Oil and petroleum products (mg/dm3);
- Surfactants (mg/dm3);
- Integral indicators of water quality: Water Pollution Index (WPI).
Component 3 – Pollution Hot Spots in the Basin
- Locations of Hot Spots (see Annex 1 “Priority Investment Portfolio” to the Strategic Action Programme for the Dnipro Basin and the Mechanisms for its Implementation”);
- Summary characteristics of discharges (the same parameters as those included in the “Wastewater Discharges into Surface Water Bodies” and “Quality Parameters of Wastewater Discharges” sections of the Component 1), and
- The ratio reflecting severity of impact of a discharge on the downstream water quality, measured at a respective downstream transboundary monitoring site.
Component 4 – Biodiversity
- Protected areas in the Basin and their protection status:
- Map of protected areas;
- Description of protected areas;
- The Red Data Book species:
- Map showing distribution of flora species included into the Red Data Book;
- Description of flora species included into the Red Data Book;
- Map showing distribution of fauna species included into the Red Data Book;
- Description of fauna species included into the Red Data Book;
- Catchment conditions that have effect on biodiversity:
- Forest cover and cultivation ratios;
- Area of agricultural land;
- Agricultural land, broken down by land user;
- Area of restored land;
- Area of disturbed and disused land;
- Area of drained/irrigated land;
- Urbanisation rate;
- Total area of degraded land; and
- Other indicators, for which data are available and open for free exchange in all riparian countries of the Dnipro Basin.
Component 5 – Legislation and Regulatory Framework of Environment Protection, Nature Use and Water Resource Conservation
- Interstate agreements of the riparian countries of the Dnipro Basin in the field of environment protection, water and resource management, and exchange of information;
- Laws, agreements, conventions and framework documents adopted by the international community for managing the international waters;
- Other specific aspects of legislative and regulatory framework in the field of management and use of water resources and other related natural resources.
