Estonia-Latvia Interreg project, contributes to the implementation of the EUBSRS priority area "NUTRI - Reducing nutrient inputs to the sea to acceptable levels" and the achievement of the EUBSRS objective "Save the Sea"
Project partners are Ministry of the Environment of Republic of Estonaa Keskkonnaministeerium, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre, LSFRI "Silava" (Latvia), Latvian Institute of Hydroecology and Latvia University of Agriculture.
The Estonia-Latvia programme contributes 363,196.50 EUR, partners' self-contribution 64,093.50 EUR.
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The objective of the project is to develop an integrated nitrogen management system for the Gulf of Riga in close cooperation between Estonian and Latvian authorities and research institutions. The integrated nitrogen management system involves economy wide inventory of the nitrogen cycle and definition of the risk areas in the Gulf of Riga catchment where to act. This means the development and implementation of the model that follows the Impact-Pathway-Source approach to propose the most cost-efficient and effective measures for increasing the efficiency of use of N and reducing N losses. The new Integrated Nitrogen Management system, to be developed in current Project, will provide a harmonised framework for participating states – Estonia and Latvia, to be implemented afterwards by Estonia and Latvian authorities. The implementation will be based on the existing river basin management plans and marine strategies and in frames of the existing bilateral and regional cooperation arrangements.