The aim of this report is to assess the current  status and general needs  of the environmental  state
in  the  Republic   of  Moldova. Raport is prepared for the June 1998 Ministerial conference in Aarhus, Denmark.

Guiding    assistance   by EEA and assistance by TACIS programme in  preparing  the  report  is  acknowledged.

The objective  of  the  report  is  to  help  set up recent data  and short information on the environment, impact of  human activities and economic sectors on the environment, policies and measures for sustanable development in the Republic of Moldova.

The Republic of Moldova  presented  the Report TThe State and the Protection of the Environment in the Republic of Moldova and the Volume The Republic of Moldova. The National Strategic Action Plan for Environmental Protection 1995-2020 at the Sofia meeting.

This is a follow-up short report on progress in field of environment in the Republic of Moldova since the Dobris meeting - Ministerial conference in Aarhus. The report reviewed major environmental problems a specially marked for the future evaluation at Sofia conference.

This report is based largely on existing very important materials as well as National reports on environmental state, publications above mentioned and on Draft Environmental Performance Review of the Republic of Moldova, prepared known specialists of UNECE  in March 1998, on other publications, mentioned in the text and part of References. All these references are based on data collected by the Department of Environmental Protection, National Institute of Ecology, Service of Hidrometeo, State Ecological Inspectorate, Department of Statistics, Academy of Sciences, other state organisations. Lack of harmonisation of data,  collection, processing data and communication problems, limitation of resources and time have resulted in reflecting of environmental problems in any parts of the country. For a number of  topics (such as stratospheric ozone deplegtion, chemicals, urban environment, major accidents) the data availability in whole country is still poor. A specially problem are artificialy create in Transnistria part, where the the access to data are temporarly stopped.
 
Further improvements in harmonising, monitoring and rep[orting on the environment in the Republic of Moldova are needed to provide a better basis for information exchange.