27 April 2023
Organized by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) and the UNICEF Office for the Balkans, with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the conference “Regional Network on Air Quality Information Management” was held in Petrovac, Montenegro.
In addition to representatives of environmental protection agencies, hydrometeorological institutes, ministries of environment and UNICEF offices from Western Balkan countries, the conference was also attended by representatives of the European Environment Agency and representatives of other institutions whose work is related to air quality management.
The main topics of the first day of the conference included the strategic engagement of the European Environment Agency in cooperation with Western Balkan countries, the review of the EU Air Quality Directive, air quality in the Balkan countries, instruments for communicating air quality data, the role of the public, science and young people in this process, as well as the contribution of the SEPA project to improving air quality in the Balkan countries.
On the second day of the conference, the experiences of Western Balkan countries in air quality monitoring and data communication were presented. On this occasion, Kosovo’s experiences in air quality monitoring, communication and reporting of data, carried out by representatives of the Hydrometeorological Institute of Kosovo, were also presented.