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Promotion of best practices for national environmental information systems and tools for data harvesting at EU level

Country fiche: Croatia(draft version 8 October 2018)

Date of 2nd evaluation: Aug 2018

SummaryOverall information governance

The environmental data of Croatia is distributed among various portals and services. There are two main environmental portals the ‘National environmental portal’: www.haop.hr which contains a list of links for all the thematic portals, and the site of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy www.mzoip.hr which holds the legal and policy information of all the six main policy domains. The information for the different domains is found in:

Air: www.mzoip.hr and iszz.azo.hr Biodiversity: www.mzoip.hr and www.bioportal.hr Water: www.mzoip.hr and envi.azo.hr Chemicals: www.mzoip.hr , narodne-novine.nn.hr , roo.azo.hr , servisi.azo.hr , envi.azo.hr Industrial emissions: www.mzoip.hr and hnproo.azo.hr Waste: www.mzoip.hr

Some thematic portals are linked, but not all. For that reason, the governance system is referred to as a mixed system. There is no link between the environmental portals and the INSPIRE portal.

Overall findings including on content, sharing and usability

Some of the thematic portals are excellent sources for data, information and studies. Most of the legal, policy information and monitoring and historical data is found and occasionally metadata and an indication of quality control was found. In general, most sites as well as the two big portals have a user-friendly structure. Downloads if available, are offered in standard-formats (pdf, XML), although the access sometimes requires registration or is not free of charge, e.g. Environmental Pollution Register -ROO.

Guidance

To improve findability of information and data the main environmental portal and the various thematic portals should be better interlinked. Also the INSPIRE portal should be better linked with the thematic portals. The lack of easy to find metadata will hinder re-use of data and it is important to pay attention to the provision of metadata.

IntroductionThis country fiche is a product of a project1 financed by the European Commission carried out mainly in 2018. The objective of the project [was] to retrieve information based on all the environmental data spread out in all different locations and systems and to find a way to collect the data in an efficient manner. If extracting the needed data, it could lower the burden for reporting by the Member States. Currently, the legal obligation to report and monitor throughout the full environmental domain shows a scattered landscape of different environmental management information systems targeted at the specific specifications in the regulatory framework. It would be a major benefit to align common base data used throughout environmental acquis.

As a starting point, the situation for every Member State was analysed and summarised in a country fiche in which the current situation (2018 or earlier) on governance, content, sharing and usability performance of the national environmental systems are described. The country fiches are linked to the preparation of the guidance document for good practices for national environmental information 1 ‘Promotion of best practices for national environmental information systems and tools for data harvesting

at EU level’ under Framework Contract No 07.0203/2017/761039/SER/ENV.E.4 of Directorate General for Environment

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http://www.mzoip.hr/

http://hnproo.azo.hr/


http://envi.azo.hr/

http://servisi.azo.hr/

http://roo.azo.hr/

https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/


http://envi.azo.hr/


http://www.bioportal.hr/


http://iszz.azo.hr/



http://www.haop.hr/


systems. For more information on the project and the methodology, see the final paragraph of the country fiche and the project webpage (www.eis-data.eu ) 2 .

Governance By ‘governance’ we mean the structure that Member States have put in place for active dissemination of information and data on the environment. Good governance means that Member States actively disseminate environmental data and information in an (easy) accessible manner for all and the system is well-maintained and updated as frequently as feasible. In the Governance part we look into the structure and refer to INSPIRE.

The Croatian environmental information and especially environmental data is distributed among various sites and portals. Most of these portals are well-structured and hold a lot of information but the link between the main portal and the thematic sites is often missing. The main portal holds legal and policy information of all the six policy domains, but the monitoring data is distributed among various thematic portals. Some thematic portals are linked, but not all. For that reason the governance system is referred to as a mixed system.

INSPIRE

The INSPIRE portal (geoportal.nipp.hr) is a separate site that contains no relevant environmental data yet and for now there is no link between the environmental portal and the INSPIRE portal.

Criterion Rating

Remarks

1.1 How is the governance of dissemination of environmental data and information arranged? There is a mixed system as described in the

governance figure.

1.2 What is the link with INSPIRE and the INSPIRE portal No link between the environmental portals and

the INSPIRE portal

2 During the duration of the project.

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http://geoportal.nipp.hr/en

http://www.eis-data.eu/


ContentThe criteria on content indicate the ease of finding environmental data and information within a Member State. We searched in the six main environmental domains, Air, Biodiversity, Water, Chemicals, Industrial Emissions and Waste and restricted the search to one specific Directive as indicated above the tables. If the answer ‘not found’ is given it does not necessarily mean the information is not there, but it means we could not find it using the methodology set out in documents available on www.eis-data.eu.

General overviewFor all the policy domains the legal information, the national plans and policies and monitoring data is easily found, except for the domain of chemicals for which everything was found, but with some difficulty. The legal information, the national plans and policies is found at the portal of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy. The impact assessment studies are found in half of the policy domains, sometimes at a thematic portal and sometimes at the main portal. The monitoring data is generally found in a thematic portal and historical data is in most cases found there as well. The metadata and indication to quality control is occasionally found. In all cases no mention of INSPIRE themes was made with regards to the monitoring data found in all the policy domains. The reports on the state of environment and information on permits are both found at the main portal.

Content criteria related to State of the Environmental report and permits/licenses

Criterion Rating Remarks

1.0 Are reports on state of the Environment provided? Difficult to find. There are reports in the

Publications section of the main portal www.mzoip.hr, found via the menu. The main report for the state of the environment was found in ec.europa.eu

2.1 Is information on permits and licenses available? Easily found information via the menu on

environmental permits at www.mzoip.hr

easily found (within 5 clicks); difficult to find (more than 5 clicks); not found

Content criteria related to legislation

For the domain of Air, the following legislation is selected: Directive 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2008 on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe. The criteria below are searched for in relation to this directive. For the search for monitoring data we focussed on data of air quality.

Criterion: Air Rating Remarks

2.2 Are links to European legal base of this legislation provided? Easily found links in the main portal via the

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Search protocol

First search main environmental portal (and if relevant linked portals) via menu and keyword search

If not found, next search other relevant portals in longlist via menu and keyword search If not found, finally perform keyword search in general search engine

http://www.mzoip.hr/hr/okolis/okolisna-dozvola.html

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eir/

http://www.mzoip.hr/en/search.html



menu, www.mzoip.hr .

2.3 Are links to national policies, plans, programs related to environment linked to this legislation provided? Easily found via the menu: links in the main

portal regarding regulations for air protection at www.mzoip.hr.

2.4 Are monitoring data (or summaries thereof) connected to this legislation provided? A search for air quality data (spatial or statistical) is performed.

Easily found air quality data for the republic of Croatia in the main portal iszz.azo.hr .

2.5 Are environmental impact studies connected to the legislation provided? Easily found in the main portal Air quality in the

Republic of Croatia, iszz.azo.hr.

2.6 Are the monitoring data found in provided according to the INSPIRE directive? No INSPIRE theme is mentioned with regards to

the monitoring data found at 2.4

2.7 Are historical datasets available of the monitoring data found? Easily found Air quality index data in the

Republic of Croatia, iszz.azo.hr.

2.8 Is metadata of the monitoring data found accessible and harvestable? No metadata found related to the monitoring

data found at 2.4.

2.9 Is there an indication of quality control (incl. accuracy, consistency, coherence, completeness, schema validation) given for the monitoring data found?

No indications found for data quality control related to the monitoring data found at 2.4.

easily found (within 5 clicks); difficult to find (more than 5 clicks); not found

For the domain of Biodiversity, the following legislation is selected: Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora. The criteria below are searched for in relation to this directive. For the search for monitoring data we focussed on data of habitats.

Biodiversity Rating Remarks

2.10 Are links to European legal base of this legislation provided? Easily found links for types and habitats,

information and regulations, via ministry of Environment Portal at www.mzoip.hr.

2.11 Are links to national policies, plans, programs related to environment linked to this legislation provided? Easily found links for Basic regulations in the

area of nature protection, via ministry of Environment portal, www.mzoip.hr.

2.12 Are monitoring data (or summaries thereof) connected to this legislation provided? A search for habitat data (spatial or statistical) is performed.

Easily found Habitat data among other GIS data sets at www.bioportal.hr.

2.13 Are environmental impact studies connected to the legislation provided? Easily found environmental impact studies for

different types of habitats, www.mzoip.hr.

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http://www.mzoip.hr/hr/priroda/propisi-i-medunarodni-ugovori.html

http://www.bioportal.hr/gis/



http://iszz.azo.hr/iskzl

http://iszz.azo.hr/iskzl

http://iszz.azo.hr/iskzl/

http://www.mzoip.hr/hr/okolis/zrak.html

http://www.mzoip.hr/hr/okolis/zrak.html




2.15 Are historical datasets available of the monitoring data found? Easily found but difficult to be further explored,

because the main GIS data site is completely in Croatian: www.bioportal.hr.

2.16 Is metadata of the monitoring data found accessible and harvestable? Found accessible Metadata but not harvestable,

www.bioportal.hr.



For the domain of Water, the following legislation is selected: Water frame directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy. The criteria below are searched for in relation to this directive. For the search for monitoring data we focussed on data of water quality data of WFD water bodies.

Water Rating Remarks

2.18 Are links to European legal base of this legislation provided? Easily found Regulations in the field of water

management, www.mzoip.hr via menu.

2.19 Are links to national policies, plans, programs related to environment linked to this legislation provided? Easily found Planned water management

documents via menu. www.mzoip.hr

2.20 Are monitoring data (or summaries thereof) connected to this legislation provided? A search for water quality data of WFD water bodies (spatial or statistical) is performed.

Easily found via menu. Seems that data exist (e.g. from 1980 to 2012) but the whole portal is in Croatian Language, envi.azo.hr

2.21 Are environmental impact studies connected to the legislation provided? No information was found on the main portal,

nor in the other portals in the longlist or via keyword search in a general search engine.



2.23 Are historical datasets available of the monitoring data found? Easily found via menu. It seems that these data

exist (e.g. from 1980 to 2012) but the whole portal is in Croatian language. envi.azo.hr

2.24 Is metadata of the monitoring data found accessible and harvestable? Found via menu. Metadata is accessible but not

harvestable. The portal is in Croatian, envi.azo.hr


No indications found for data quality control related to the monitoring data found at 2.20

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http://envi.azo.hr/

http://envi.azo.hr/

http://envi.azo.hr/

http://www.mzoip.hr/hr/vode/planski-dokumenti-upravljanja-vodama.html

http://www.mzoip.hr/hr/vode/propisi-iz-podrucja-vodnoga-gospodarstva.html




For the domain of Chemicals, the following legislation is selected: Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 – REACH of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and establishing a European Chemicals Agency. The criteria below are searched for in relation to this directive. For the search for monitoring data we focussed on data on presence of chemicals in soil or water.

Chemicals Rating Remarks

2.26 Are links to European legal base of this legislation provided? Difficult to find general links / regulations

including chemicals. Not easy to find links especially for REACH legislation using search, www.mzoip.hr.

2.27 Are links to national policies, plans, programs related to environment linked to this legislation provided? Easily found links to national Plans at ministry

of Environment portal using search, www.mzoip.hr

Also found specific report ''A gradual emission reduction program for certain pollutants in the Republic of Croatia for the period up to the end of 2010, with projections of emissions for the period from 2010 to 2020'' in URL narodne-novine.nn.hr.

2.28 Are monitoring data (or summaries thereof) connected to this legislation provided? A search for presence of chemicals in soil or water (spatial or statistical) is performed.

Difficult to find. Found Environmental Pollution Register (ROO) information system via general search engine, but the database is password protected at roo.azo.hr .

2.29 Are environmental impact studies connected to the legislation provided? No information was found on the main portal,

nor in the other portals in the longlist or via keyword search in a general search engine.

2.30 Are the monitoring data found according to the INSPIRE directive? No INSPIRE theme is mentioned with regards to


2.31 Are historical datasets available of the monitoring data found? Easily found on GIS on line portal using search

engine, plants with dangerous chemicals, locations of reported accidents from chemicals etc. at envi.azo.hr.

2.32 Is metadata of the monitoring data found accessible and harvestable? Found using search. Metadata accessible, but

not harvestable in GIS portal. There, XML files exist but difficult to be harvested at servisi.azo.hr or envi.azo.hr.


Found using search. There is Presence of reference about data quality control and direct link to results. The content of register may contain metadata but the access is password protected and user login must be initiated, roo.azo.hr

easily found (within 5 clicks); difficult to find (more than 5 clicks); Not found

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http://roo.azo.hr/

http://envi.azo.hr/?topic=9

http://servisi.azo.hr/industrija/wms?request=GetCapabilities)

http://envi.azo.hr/?topic=9

http://roo.azo.hr/

https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2009_12_152_3712.html

https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2009_12_152_3712.html

http://www.mzoip.hr/hr/okolis/propisi-i-medunarodni-ugovorixxxxx/propisi-i-medunarodni-ugovori-iz-zastite-zraka.html

http://www.mzoip.hr/hr/okolis/propisi-i-medunarodni-ugovorixxxxx/propisi-i-medunarodni-ugovori-iz-zastite-zraka.html.


For the domain of Industrial Emissions, the following legislation is selected: Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control and the Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 January 2006 concerning the establishment of a European Pollutant Release. The criteria below are searched for in relation to this directive. For the search for monitoring data we focussed on data of industrial emissions in air.

Industrial emissions Rating Remarks

2.34 Are links to European legal base of this legislation provided? Easily found legal documents for industrial emissions

in environment section of the portal using search functionality, www.mzoip.hr

2.35 Are links to national policies, plans, programs related to environment linked to this legislation provided? Easily found documents for national policies in

industrial emissions, in main environmental portal using search at www.mzoip.hr

2.36 Are monitoring data (or summaries thereof) connected to this legislation provided? A search for data on industrial emissions in air (spatial or statistical) is performed.

Easily found at Croatian National Portal for Environmental Pollution Register (ROO), using search functionality at hnproo.azo.hr

2.37 Are environmental impact studies connected to the legislation provided? No information was found on the main portal, nor in

the other portals in the longlist or via keyword search in a general search engine.

2.38 Are the monitoring data found in provided according to the INSPIRE directive? No INSPIRE theme is mentioned with regards to the

monitoring data found at 2.36

2.39 Are historical datasets available of the monitoring data found? Difficult to find. The link hnproo.azo.hr is for industrial

activities or similar, for years 2008-2013, but not exactly historical datasets.

2.40 Is metadata of the monitoring data found accessible and harvestable? Metadata is accessible, but not harvestable. Found this

url, but not actually showing metadata, hnproo.azo.hr.



For the domain of Waste, the following legislation is selected: Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste. The criteria below are searched for in relation to this directive. For the search for monitoring data we focussed on data of amount of waste or landfill sites (spatial/statistical).


2.42 Are links to European legal base of this legislation provided? Easily found by using the main environmental

portal menu: Regulations and International Treaties for Waste, www.mzoip.hr

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http://www.mzoip.hr/hr/otpad/propisi-i-medunarodni-ugovori.html

http://hnproo.azo.hr/MapSearch.aspx

http://hnproo.azo.hr/AreaOverview.aspx

http://hnproo.azo.hr/MapSearch.aspx

http://www.mzoip.hr/hr/okolis/okolisna-dozvola/osnovne-informacije-o-postupku-izdavanja-okolisne-dozvole/zakonska-osnova-.html

http://www.mzoip.hr/hr/okolis/okolisna-dozvola/osnovne-informacije-o-postupku-izdavanja-okolisne-dozvole/zakonska-osnova-.html


2.43 Are links to national policies, plans, programs related to environment linked to this legislation provided? Easily found by using the main environmental

portal menu: Waste management strategies for Republic of Croatia, www.mzoip.hr

2.44 Are monitoring data (or summaries thereof) connected to this legislation provided? A search for data on produced waste or landfills (spatial or statistical) is performed.

Easily found by using the main environmental portal menu: Waste Management Plan for the Republic of Croatia for the period 2007-2015 www.mzoip.hr

2.45 Are environmental impact studies connected to the legislation provided? Difficult to find by using the main environmental

portal menu. Found Waste Management Strategy of the Republic of Croatia (including evaluation of the existing state of waste management etc., in www.mzoip.hr



2.47 Are historical datasets available of the monitoring data found? No historical datasets found related to the

monitoring data found at 2.44.

2.48 Is metadata of the monitoring data found accessible and harvestable? No metadata found related to the monitoring

data found at 2.44.



SharingThe criteria on sharing indicate the ease with which data and information provided by an environmental portal can be shared. Users can be persons to look up information and/or view and download the data on a portal, but it can also mean automatic extraction of data and information by harvesting.

For the main environmental portal, a number of issues regarding sharing are evaluated.

The environmental data infrastructure in Croatia is varied, but most interactive maps are very good. There are viewing services available for almost all domains with some portals offering a download option. On the main environmental portal most of the sharing criteria were met. There is a data and mapping component integrated in the portal, with possibilities to view and download the data. Information on the license for re-use is not available, data licences are not clearly stated and in some instances, metadata is not provided, access to registers is open and environmental data is freely available. Communication via the portal is possible with a specific contact person.


3.1 Is it possible to view the data? Presence of links to view services, data for air quality index through a gis portal. Data can be exported to xls format and viewed at iszz.azo.hr

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http://iszz.azo.hr/iskzl/index.html

http://www.mzoip.hr/hr/otpad/strategije-planovi-i-programi.html

http://www.mzoip.hr/hr/

http://www.mzoip.hr/hr/otpad/propisi-i-medunarodni-ugovori.html


3.2 Is it possible to download the data in most commonly used file formats? Downloads in common file formats possible, in

csv xls format, iszz.azo.hr

3.3 What communication possibilities are available? Contact point in iszz.azo.hr

3.4 Is the license to re-use data published? Not found

3.5 Is access to registers or lists open? (catalogues, thesaurus, vocabularies) Access to registers is open. Found GIS registers

in iszz.azo.hr and in www.bioportal.hr

3.6 Is environmental data freely available (free of charge)? Data is open free of charge. GIS data sets and

metadata are in www.bioportal.hr

UsabilityThe criteria regarding the usability indicate the ease of use by consumers.

Most of the portals are available in Croatian and English, although often not all the content has been translated.

When searching for content, the percentage of successful searches was approximately 64%. Of the found answers, 75% was found easily (within 5 clicks). Found by using the menu: 39% of the found answers.


4.1 Are environmental indicators used? Presence of indicators for environmental quality at www.mzoip.hr

4.2 Are facilities to support the user provided? Some Help-functionality exists. The following options

are present: website search functionality, sitemap, clear menu/table of content, FAQ, how-to's.

4.3 Are alternatives for visually and hearing

impaired users available? No alternatives available

4.4 Is the portal multi-lingual? Primarily in official of language(s) of country, secondly in English and thirdly in other languages

4.5 How was your overall experience? Moderate

4.6 How do you judge the appearance of the site Attractive

4.7 What is your impression of the complexity of the site Clear

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http://www.mzoip.hr/en/environment/air.html



http://iszz.azo.hr/iskzl/emeta.htm

http://iszz.azo.hr/iskzl/upit.htm

http://iszz.azo.hr/iskzl/index.html


4.8 Percentage of criteria of content found by using

the menu 34-66%

4.9 Percentage of criteria of content found 34-66%

4.10 Percentage Criteria of content found easily >66%

GuidanceTo improve findability of information and data the main environmental portal and the various thematic portals should be better interlinked. Also the INSPIRE portal should be better linked with the thematic portals. The lack of easy to find metadata will hinder re-use of data and it is important to pay attention to the provision of metadata. This will be improved automatically when better use is made of the INSPIRE portal for environmental data of the policy domains.

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Longlist These are the EIS’s that were found for Croatia during the first inventory. In the first column is indicated which column we encountered during the evaluation.

√ Portal Portal type

URL Owner Administrator

Metadataportal National http://envi-metapodaci.azo.hr Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy

Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy

Geoportal National http://geoportal.dgu.hr/ republika Hrvatska Državna Geodetska Uprava

Državna Geodetska Uprava (State Geodetic Administration)

√ Environment Agency HAOP National http://www.haop.hr/ Croatian Agency for Environmental Nature (HAOP)

Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre (ALRC)

√ Ministry for Environment National http://www.mzoip.hr/ Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy

Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy

√ Air quality in the Republic of Croatia

National http://iszz.azo.hr/iskzl/ Croatian Agency for Environmental Nature (HAOP)

Croatian Agency for Environmental Nature (HAOP)

Emissions from immovable sources

National http://iszz.azo.hr/stacion Croatian Agency for Environmental Nature (HAOP)


Croatian Waters National http://www.voda.hr Croatian Waters Croatian Waters√ ENVI atlas of the environment National http://envi.azo.hr Croatian Agency for

Environmental Nature (HAOP)


Waste Disposal Portal National http://sprjecavanjeotpada.azo.hr



Geoportal NSDI National http://geoportal.nipp.hr/ State Geodetic Administration, NSDI Division

State Geodetic Administration, NSDI Division

√ CRO Habitats - a system of habitat types in Croatia

National http://www.bioportal.hr/ Croatian Environment and Nature Agency

Croatian Environment and Nature Agency

√ Search engine for regulations National https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/√ Environmental Pollution

RegisterNational http://roo.azo.hr/ Croatian Environment and

Nature AgencyCroatian Environment and Nature Agency

√ http://servisi.azo.hr/ (not available)

√ Croatian National Portal for the Environment Pollution Register (HNPROO)

National http://hnproo.azo.hr/ Croatian Environment and Nature Agency (HAOP)

Croatian Environment and Nature Agency (HAOP)

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http://servisi.azo.hr/


Reference to project and methodologyThe evaluation was carried out by at least two members of the project team for ‘Promotion of best practices for national environmental information systems and tools for data harvesting at EU level’. Differences between the results of both evaluations are discussed and checked and this country fiche visualises the results. For background information and references regarding the method we refer to the guidance document available at www.eis-data.eu.

DisclaimerThis draft country fiche is part of an ongoing project and is work in progress. This document has been prepared for the European Commission however it reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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