Centre on Emission Inventories and Projections

The EMEP Centre on  Emission Inventories and Projections (CEIP)  hosted by the Umweltbundesamt Vienna (UBA-V) Austria, started on 15 January 2008. The new centre builds on the current emission related  work  within EMEP and will provide extensive support to the Parties and to the modellers

The main task of the CEIP is to collect emissions and projections of acidifying air pollutants,heavy metals, particulate matter and photochemical oxidants from Parties to the LRTAP Convention, and prepare data sets as input for long-range transport models. The emission centre has also been assigned the task of reviewing the submitted emissions to assist the Parties improving the quality of national inventories.

Currently, the centre operates the UNECE/EMEP emission database (WebDab) which contains information on emissions and projections from all Parties to the LRTAP Convention in two separate data sets:

a) official emissions as submitted by Parties, and

b) emissions used by modellers (gap-filled emissions). 

The new EMEP centre at  Umweltbundesamt Vienna maintains close cooperation with the other EMEP centres like  CCC,  CIAM,  MSC-E, and  MSC-W.  Important collaboration partners are also the  UNECE secretariat, the  TFEIP, the Austrian Ministry of Environment, the  EEA and the European commission.