The report provides a systematic summary presentation of the data on hazardous substances’ concentrations reported by the 39 member and collaborating countries to the European Environment Agency. It gives a quick overview of the state and availability of State of Environment (SoE) hazardous substances data in rivers, lakes, groundwater, transitional/coastal/marine waters, occurrence, concentrations levels and developments over time as well as "traffic light indicators" at country level by comparisons with quality standards, where applicable. These overviews are considered useful for a compact display of the thousands of data records for each substance, but should not be seen as an assessment of the situation between the reporting countries.
Recipient: EEA