15 analytical Laboratories from EU Member States have participated in the third technical on-site event during which sampling and analytical methodologies for chemical monitoring according to proposed WFD provisions have been compared. Coordination of the project was provided by the European...

27 Analytical Laboratories from eleven EU Member States and two non-EU countries have participated in a technical on-site event during which sampling and analytical methodologies for chemical monitoring according to proposed WFD provisions have been compared. Coordination of the project was...

This report describes work conducted to assess the feasibility of an experimental monitoring exercise in support to a so-called Watch List Mechanism under the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC in a collaborative design involving EU Member States laboratories and some 200 official monitoring...

This report describes work conducted by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) in the context of an Administrative Arrangement between DG Environment and the JRC. This work aimed at the generation, within a limited timeframe, of a large amount of analytical data, with high...

This report describes work conducted by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) in the context of an Administrative Arrangement between DG Environment and the JRC. This work aimed at the generation, within a limited timeframe, of a large amount of analytical data, with high...

The aim of this work was to evaluate two different digestion procedures for the determination of the concentration of trace and major elements (As, Cd, Co, Cu, Cr, Fe, Mg, Mn, Ni, P, Pb, Sb, V, Zn) in five hundred randomly selected soil samples from LUCAS Soil Survey. The two procedures employed...

This report describes the technical support provided to identify and prioritize among relevant compounds that have to be considered in European regulation dealing with Sewage Sludge. The work includes the results of a screening of typical European situations of sewage sludges with regard to the...

In the year 2010, effluents from 90 European waste water treatment plants (WWTPs) were collected and analysed in total for 160 organic chemicals and 20 inorganic trace elements. The analyses were complemented by applying also effect-based monitoring approaches aiming at estrogenicity and...

In the year 2010, effluents from 90 European waste water treatment plants (WWTPs) were collected and analysed in total for 160 organic chemicals and 20 inorganic trace elements. The analyses were complemented by applying also effect-based monitoring approaches aiming at estrogenicity and...