D2.1.1 Integrated Regional Programme for Pollutants Emissions Reduction and on Air Quality Improvement on the Territory of the City of Prague Agglomeration Status: The document is approved (see the Decision of the Council of the City of Prague No. 1461 of 12th September 2006). The project framework: The documents were in their draft form developed on the basis of the provisions of Section 6 (5) and Section 7 (6) of the Act No. 86/2002 Code on air pollution control, and Annexes Nos. 2 and 3 to the Act and following to the document of the Long-Term Objective of Air Pollution Control in the City of Prague. Party Ordering: The City of Prague represented by Department of the Environmental Protection of the Prague City Hall. Supplier: ATEM – Studio of Ecological Modelling, spol. s r. o. Description, course of the development: The programme is focused on the solving of the current as well as prospective air quality conditions when the highest acceptable values of certain pollutants concentration are exceeded. The programme works out a number of concrete remedial measures, which may affect qualitative parameters of air in positive manner. The programmes, after being approved, should become the initial documents for public administration performance at the level of the entire City and respective City parts not only in the area of air pollution control yet also in land-use planning, land-use decision making, permitting of new construction and/or modifications to current constructions, assessing intended activities and plans, which may significantly affect air cleanness, and assessing development concepts and programmes. The objective of the Programmes is to meet the obligation following from the valid legislation on air pollution control, namely compliance with immission limit values and emission ceilings by 2010. The documents are available at: the electronic version is available on the Internet pages of the Prague City Hall in the column The Environment (envis.praha-mesto.cz); printed version is available in the Collection of Legal Regulations of the City of Prague (Regulation No. 14/2006 issuing the Integrated Regional Programme for Pollutants Emissions Reduction and on Air Quality Improvement on the Territory of the City of Prague Agglomeration, section 11/2006). Additional activities: The Commission of the Prague Council was established to implement the Integrated Regional Programme for Pollutants Emissions Reduction and on Air Improvements on the Territory of the City of Prague on 27th February 2007. The Commission supervised the implementation projects on the respective provisions stated in programme. The Commission observed, and discussed it with positive, too. The implementation projects will be discussed consequently by the Committee of the Environment of the Prague Council. Contacts, information: Prague City Hall, Department of Environmental Protection of the Prague City Hall, Section of Air Pollution Control. Update prepared to sign: 3/2008..

In 2006 and 2007 the works continued simultaneously on the updating of the Strategic Plan of the City of Prague (detailed information in Czech can be obtained at the internet pages of the City of Prague (magistrat.praha-mesto.cz, column Rozvojové projekty - Strategický plán).

The following brief descriptions depict the state of preparatory works on these documents by February 2008. At the end there is an overview and brief descriptions of other important documents related to environmental protection, which were adopted by the City authorities and self-government bodies before. Furthermore, a list and brief annotations of other substantial documents dealing with the environmental protection issues, which were approved by the City bodies in the past, are available herein.

Area-specific regional concepts developed in 2004 and discussed by the City bodies in 2005: