Air quality

Air quality is monitored on the national and local level through the network of air quality monitoring stations

Air quality is monitored on the national and local level through the network of monitoring stations: national network for permanent air quality monitoring, monitoring stations of local and regional self-government units and monitoring stations of polluters. The obtained monitoring data are used for air quality monitoring and assessment, followed by proposing and implementing measures for prevention and reduction of air pollution.
 

Air quality monitoring stations

The national network for permanent air quality monitoring currently includes 21 established air quality monitoring stations, while it is planned to establish additional five monitoring stations in Zagreb, Split, Osijek and Omišalj (island Krk). Eleven stations are located in settlements and industrial areas – three in Zagreb, two in Slavonski Brod, and one each in Rijeka, Kutina, Osijek, Sisak, Varaždin and Karlovac, while 11 stations are located in rural and protected areas: Kopački rit, Desinić, Plitvička jezera (Plitvice Lakes), Parg, Višnjan, Polača-Ravni kotari, Vela straža-Dugi otok, Hum-island Vis, Opuzen-delta of the river Neretva, and Pula Fižela.

The air quality monitoring results from all monitoring stations established in the territory of the Republic of Croatia are continually delivered to the database Air Quality in the Republic of Croatia and published every hour on the website of the Institute for Environmental and Nature Protection.

Air quality is determined for each pollutant annually, once a year for the previous calendar year.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy issues annual air quality reports containing the evaluation of air quality in the territory of the Republic of Croatia. The said reports and other documents related to air quality are publicly available on the website of the Institute for Environmental and Nature Protection.