UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub is implementing EU funded project: “European Union for Improving Environmental Monitoring in the Black Sea (EU4EMBLAS). The overall objective of the project is to help improve protection of the Black Sea environment. This objective will be pursued through further technical assistance focused on establishing modern systems and facilities for environmental monitoring (in Georgia and Ukraine), capacity building, assessment of environmental status in line with EU MSFD/WFD and public awareness raising on the Black Sea environmental issues.
One of the key EU4EMBLAS project results is aimed to equip relevant national institutions with facilities and suitable analytical equipment to be able to perform analysis of environmental marine monitoring samples to obtain data that are required for environmental and ecological status assessment of the Black Sea harmonised with the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and Water Framework Directive (WFD) requirements, considering the Black Sea Specific Contaminants (BSSCs).
In order to achieve this aim, necessary analytical and sampling equipment needs to be provided to the relevant institutions, which are currently able to perform only basic analyses, not sufficient to respond to the requirements for environmental and ecological status assessment.
In Georgia, the National Environmental Agency of Georgia (Tbilisi) and its Fisheries and Black Sea Monitoring Centre (Batumi) has been identified and agreed as recipient organization of technical support provided by the project in form of laboratory and sampling equipment. It is covering GC–MS instrument for determination of organic compounds in water samples, fully automated SPE device, sample preparation device together with relevant chemicals and spare parts.
