Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale

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- ISPRA -
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State level National Authority
Position of the authority Scientific Authority
Supervisory authority (s) Ministry of the Environment, Landscape and Marine Protection
Consist legally since 2008, active since 2010
Arose from u. a. Servizio Geologico d'Italia
Headquarters Rome
Authority management Stefano Laporta
Website isprambiente.gov.it

The Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (short ISPRA; German: "Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research") is an authority within the portfolio of the Italian Ministry for Environment, Landscape and Marine Protection . The ISPRA has its headquarters in Rome . Together with comparable environmental protection authorities in the Italian regions , it forms the network Sistema Nazionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente ("National Environmental Protection System"). In this context, the ISPRA collects and evaluates data on the state of the environment and acts as the central specialist authority for environmental and nature conservation as well as forGeology in Italy .

organization

The management level essentially consists of the President of ISPRA, an administrative board, a scientific advisory board, an auditing body and an independent supervisory body. The management is in the hands of a general manager, who is subordinate to support services, situation centers and three major departments: an environmental protection department, the geological service and a central administrative department. There are branch offices in Venice , Chioggia , Ozzano dell'Emilia , Livorno , Milazzo and Palermo . ISPRA maintains a specialist library in Rome and a museum in Ozzano.

The ISPRA mareographic network consists of 36 stations, including the Genoa gauge .

history

The origins of ISPRA lie with the Consiglio delle Miniere Mining Authority, founded in the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont in 1822 . At the end of 1867, its geological section was incorporated into the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Trade and was commissioned to carry out a geological survey of Italy and to draw up corresponding geological maps . In the further course, the management tasks remained with this department, while the geological office of the Royal Mining Service (Corpo Reale delle Miniere) was set up for the technical implementation in 1873 . In 1927 the office was renamed Servizio Geologico after reorganization , and in 1960 as Servizio Geologico d'Italia the status of a state cartographic office. In 1987 the geological service came to the new Ministry of the Environment, where it was also given environmental protection tasks. Two years later, the Prime Minister's office took over the supervision of the geological service and other offices that were also concerned with geosciences , water management , soil protection and disaster control . Because the office of the prime minister was then responsible for the reformed Italian civil protection, the geological service was also given disaster protection tasks, especially those of a preventive nature. merged, and this merged by law in 2008 with an Institute for Applied Marine Science (ICRAM) and an Institute for Faunistics (INFS) to the Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale ISPRA in the division of the Ministry of Environment. In the course of the merger, which was implemented until 2010, and the following reorganizations and rationalizations, the Servizio Geologico d'Italia was re-established within the ISPRA as one of the largest and most important organizational units .

network

In 1994, the national health service, Servizio Sanitario Nazionale, was deprived of tasks and services in the field of hygiene monitoring and disease prevention and transferred to new offices in the Italian regions and to the national environmental protection agency ANPA (APAT, merged into ISPRA in 2008). From these regional offices, 19 regional environmental protection agencies with the name Agenzia regional per la protezione ambientale (ARPA) emerged as well as two regional environmental agencies in the two autonomous provinces of Trentino and South Tyrol , which together with the ISPRA, have been creating a network called “National System for the protection of the environment ” (Sistema Nazionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente) . This network is intended to standardize public monitoring of environmental quality, ensure the effectiveness of environmental protection measures and support a sustainable environmental policy to protect public health. Other tasks of the network are the control of potential sources of pollution and other environmental stress factors, research in the environmental field, the technical and scientific support of state, regional and local authorities, as well as the collection, processing and dissemination of environmental data. The chairman of the network is ex officio the president of ISPRA, the vice-chairman is elected by the heads of the environmental agencies of the regions and the two autonomous provinces from among their equals.

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