{"id":11885,"date":"2021-07-01T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/?p=11885"},"modified":"2025-03-25T08:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:00:36","slug":"expert-conference-improvement-of-legal-tools-in-the-protection-of-the-marine-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunce-st.org\/en\/news\/expert-conference-improvement-of-legal-tools-in-the-protection-of-the-marine-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert conference “Improvement of legal tools in the protection of the marine environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Days after the catastrophic fire in Split in 2017<\/strong>, when a fire engulfed the Karepovac <\/strong>landfill, citizens breathed polluted air, but the Institute of Public Health<\/strong> in its statements did not mention the negative impact on health which have much exceeded harmful particles in the air. On the one hand, in the public was claimed that the amount of harmful particles were within the permitted values, although in the days of active fire were registered the values of PM10 particles four times higher and five times increased values of hydrogen sulfide<\/strong>, and on the other hand, recommendations to citizens to stay in their homes. A similar situation was repeated after the fire at the Jaku\u0161evac <\/strong>landfill, when citizens did not receive adequate and timely information. These are only some of the data are listed in the Ombudsman’s Report<\/strong> entitled “Right to Healthy Living and Climate Change in Croatia 2013-2020<\/strong>“, presented on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at the expert meeting on the improvement of legal tools in the protection of the marine environment organized by the Association for Nature, Environment and Sustainable Development Sunce. The expert meeting was held as part of the project Preserving the Adriatic Sea Ecosystems by Active Participation of Citizen – SEAS<\/strong> (link<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Statistics from the European Environment Agency<\/strong> record as many as 400,000 premature deaths caused by air pollution a year, and it is not negligible data according to which the World Health Organization links air pollution with premature deaths from heart attacks and strokes, lung diseases and cancer, reduced lung function, respiratory infections and asthma. In the EEA Report on Air Quality in Europe<\/strong> from 2020, the Republic of Croatia <\/strong>is among the six countries with exceeded the upper limit value of fine airborne particles. At the same time, only in the wider Split <\/strong>area, there is only one state measuring station, on Vis<\/strong>. All this information is stated in the Report of the Ombudsman<\/strong>, which was presented by Maja Hasanba\u0161i<\/strong>\u0107 from the Office of the Ombudsman at an expert meeting organized by Sunce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n