EURO-ECO 2007 Hanover 4 - 5 December 2007	Environmental and Engineering Aspects for sustainable living
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow

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The task of providing favourable ecological situation and the environment is becoming a priority problem in the conditions of the growth of large megapolices accompanied by an intensive expansion of industry and transportation. Its solving is impossible without monitoring the environmental condition, which provides the information for justified selection of adequate nature-protecting measures whereas being the only means of control over their efficiency.

Nature preserving policy of the city of Moscow is carried out in accordance with the strategic document „Ecological doctrine of the city“ which adheres to the principle of sustainable development and comfortable living standards for the Moscow citizens prohibiting damage to the environment. Ecological monitoring is envisaged by the doctrine as one of the top activity directions. According to the policy of Moscow in this sphere its major task is not only a «passive observance» over the state of the environment, although it is its direct technical and methodological function. The strategic task of the ecological monitoring is its integration into the system of making administrative decisions and informational source to implement other nature preserving functions of the state, such as a state ecological control, state ecological expertise, regulation of negative impact as well as elaborating a system of providing ecological information update for the population.

Moscow is the first subject of the Russian Federation, which proceeded with setting up its own system of ecological monitoring. Today, Moscow enjoys its own legal basis in the sphere of the ecological monitoring and the Common System of Ecological Monitoring in compliance with modern technical requirements. The Common System of Ecological Monitoring comprises subsystems of monitoring the quality of the atmospheric air, ground waters, level of noise, soil, the state of green plants and geoecological processes. Each system is represented by a network of stationary observation points spread all over the city territory and located in different functional zones. The schemes of the observation points resulted from collective work efforts of Moscow leading scientific teams aimed at obtaining full, accurate and evidence-based information on the state of the city environment.

The creation of the Common System of Ecological Monitoring provided the possibility to obtain factual evidence basis of environmental and/or health hazards without which no justified administrative of court decision is possible. It practically enables to realise the constitutional right of the citizens to obtain ecological information. Regular technical upgrading of the systems of monitoring and amendments in the observation programmes with account of architectural changes, introduction of new measurement tools and methods, new information on major pollutants, changes in emission/output parameters, etc.

Each subsystem of monitoring in Moscow is integrated into the city systems of monitoring for other natural environments and entitled to detect cause and consequence connections in the whole set of ecological problems of the megapolice. The regulations on using the data of the Common System of Ecological Monitoring are stipulated on legislative level alongside with municipal organizations and types of activities which are obliged to use the data of the ecological monitoring.