Model assessment of environmental pollution with toxic substances
Meteorological Synthesizing Centre /East (MSC-E) is an International Research Centre hosted by the Department of Environmental Sciences at the Jožef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia). Responsible for model assessment of environmental pollution with heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants for the EMEP Programme of the UNECE Air Convention.
Events
10th Joint session of EMEP Steering Body and WGE
The 10th Joint Session of the EMEP Steering Body and the Working Group on Effects (WGE) took place in Geneva (Swtzerrland) from September 9-13, 2024. At this meeting, the EMEP Centres, Task Forces, and the WGE’s International Cooperative Programmes (ICPs) reported on their recent and ongoing activities and discussed plans and [...]
25th meeting of the Task Force on Measurements and Modelling (TFMM)
The 25th meeting of the Task Force on Measurements and Modelling (TFMM) of EMEP took place from May 6-7, 2024, in Warsaw, Poland. TFMM serves as a forum for the Parties to the Air Conventions, EMEP Centres, and other international organisations to discuss and evaluate measurements and modelling, and to further [...]
Information on pollution levels
MSC-E conducts operational modelling of heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) contamination and their transboundary transport across countries. Annual status and changes of the pollution are provided through pollution maps, temporal trends, and estimates of transboundary pollution.
Latest Publication
Assessment of heavy metal and POP pollution on global, regional and national scales. Joint MSC-E, CCC, CEIP, IMR, CEIMAT, INERIS, ENEA and FMI Report

Co-operation with international organizations and programmes
MSC-E collaborates with various international organisations and programmes to enhance research and assessment approaches used by the Centre and to disseminate the scientific knowledge gained through the Air Convention. These international bodies include the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the Stockholm Convention on POPs, the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM), the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR), the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), and others.