The Foundation: Agency of Regional Air Quality Monitoring in the Gdańsk metropolitan area was founded in 1993 by the following municipalities: Gdańsk, Gdynia, Sopot and Tczew together with "Nederpol" Company. The Foundation was founded to create the regional monitoring network. Within the air monitoring system continuous measurements of the air quality are taken in several 'representative' points and in so called "hot points", where the concentrations of pollutants are the highest one. The data from the automatic monitoring network in Gdańsk metropolitan area enables:

• identification of the area and reason of air pollution problems
• verification of the criteria evaluate the air quality,
• evaluation of long term tendencies,
• modeling processes,
• evaluation of recommendation effectiveness.

The seat Agency of Regional Air Quality Monitoring in Gdańsk metropolitan area is at: 66 Elbląska Street
80--761 Gdańsk
tel. (+48 58) 301 48 84; tel./fax. (+48 58) 3059372