The Institute of Environmental Protection was appointed by virtue of the Order of the Minister of Environmental Protection on April 1 1986. This was, in principle, a reactivation of the Institute that had been established already in 1973. In the following year, together with three other units including the Institute of Communal Management, the Institute of Urbanisation and Architecture and the Institute of Housing Economy was incorporated into the Institute of Environmental Formation. Simultaneously with the reactivation of the Institute of Environmental Protection the latter Institute ended its mission.

The main task of the Institute of Environmental Protection is to elaborate scientific and technical foundations of environmental protection within the scope of the Ministry of Environment. While the development of state policies at national and international levels gives the Institute a special place among various research and development units dealing with environmental protection, its other distinguishing features include special tasks such as integrated environmental studies. The major areas of activity include, inter alia:

Development of basic documents in support of the State environmental policies and strategies, co-operation in developing international policies.
Integrated study of the environment, including processes and effects of environmental degradation, especially in regions degraded by industrial activity.
Protection of the atmosphere.
Climate protection.
Protection against noise and vibration.
Nature and landscape conservation.
Protection and restoration of land.
Protection and restoration of water resources.
Protection of Baltic Sea and the coastal zone.
Waste management in the environment.

Our competence in the above areas includes:

Economic and legal foundations for environmental protection including international co-operation.
Standards, levels and indices of environmental quality and pollution emission.
Environmental monitoring (assessment of the state of the environment and its changes).
Methods and systems of documentation and predicting changes in the environment.
Documentation and databases on protected areas, design of protected areas and their management plans.
Air pollution measurement and analytical methods.
Principles, concepts and programmes of environmental management.
Environmental impact assessment of economic objects and ventures.
Environmental impact assessment of substances, products and installations.
Protection of the environment and natural resources in physical planning.
Means and techniques of environmental protection including restoration of degraded areas as well as the evaluation of efficiency of protective measures.
Integrated monitoring of the environment ("Puszcza Borecka" - Integrategrated Monitoring Station working within GEMS and EMEP programmes).

Dr.Dr. Wojciech Mill

Institute of Environmental Protection, Section of Integrated Modelling

ul. Grunwaldzka 7b/2

41-106 Siemianowice Sl.

Phone/Fax: +48 32 2281482

E-mail: mill@silesia.top.pl

03-08-2005