ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OF SLOVAK REPUBLIC - PARTIAL SYSTEM OF GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS

Among general terms at the accession of states of Middle and Eastern Europe into European Community, acquisition of quality data about environment on national level, their processing into system information and mutual exchange of information play the main role.

By the Resolution of the Government of the Slovak Republic Nr. 620 dated 7th September 1993 directed the ME SR, MA SR and MZ SR to safeguard the performance of the functions of the centres of partial monitoring systems and to co-ordinate the realisation of the partial monitoring systems and partial information systems.

The Concept of the Monitoring system of the environment of the Slovak Republic and the Concept of integrated information system of the environment define the environmental monitoring as a systematic, spatially and temporarily defined observation of precisely defined attributes of the environmental compounds or influences upon the environment (usually in monitoring net points). To a certain degree of reliableness they are able to characterise given area and, to a higher level a larger region.

The Monitoring system of the environment consists of the ten systems. One of them is Monitoring of geological factors. Its centre is at GS SR. Thematically it is focused on those geological factors and on such outputs, which seem to be convenient as the input data for issues of protection of the environment and for optimum utilisation of geopotentials of the country. It is focused mainly on geological hazards, harmful natural or anthropogenic processes, which jeopardise the environment, as well as humans. The monitoring serves for observations and assessment of the mechanisms of negative changes in the geological environment.

Recently, Monitoring of Geological Factors consists of 13 autonomous subsystems, defined according to different type of the influencing geological process activated by natural or artificial factors: Landslides and other slope deformations; Erosion processes; Weathering processes; Volume unstable soils; Influence of mining impact upon environment; Changes of anthropogenic sediments; Stability of massifs underlying historic objects; Covered anthropogenic sediments; Tectonic and seismic activity; Snow pack quality; Seismic phenomena; Stream sediments quality and Radon volume activity.