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Aims of NERMS

According to the Decree of the Government No. 275/2002 (XII.21.), the main tasks of the National Environmental Monitoring System (NERMS; in Hungarian: OKSER) are the determination of the radiation burden of the Hungarian Population arising from either natural or artificial sources, and the collection of activity concentrations measured in the environment, including:

• external gamma-dose rate
• activity concentrations in
  • different media of the environment (e.g., air, soil, surface waters, natural and agricultural plants, wild and domestic animals, etc.),
  • animal and plant originated foodstuffs consumed by the population,
  • drinking water,
  • building materials,
• indoor and outdoor activity concentration of radon (Rn) and its daughters,
• radioactive contamination incorporated into human body.

Furthermore, NERMS is also responsible to perform the tasks below:

• information of the population,
• publishing annual reports about the results of tasks above,
• preparation of the collected radiological data for the information of the CEC

NERMS consists of NERMS Members, which ones are different ministries, authorities and special installations. The activity of NERMS is governed by the NERMS Steerring Commitee. The NERMS Steerring Committe states the annual environmental sampling and measuring program to be performed by the radiological monitoring networks belonging to the NERMS Members. NERMS Information Centre collects and processes the radiological data measured by the individual monitoring networks, and prepares the annual reports about the results.