Ensuring the environmental agenda at SŽDC headquarters

The independent Environment Department numbers 7 people and each of them is responsible for a specific factor of the environment, thus operating as its gestor for ecologists - water managers of SŽDC organizational units that they methodically control.

Basic overview of the individual environmental agenda at SŽDC headquarters

• complex assessment of the railway transport impact on the environment including making statements to the projects of modernization and optimization of the railway infrastructure
• issuing methodical measures in order to meet obligations resulting from legal regulations in the environmental field
• representing SŽDC at meetings and proceedings with administrative authorities of central character, i.e. MŽP ČR, MD ČR, MZd ČR, Czech Inspection Headquarters for Environment and with other bodies of state administration and further within international cooperation (UIC – Environment, Energy and Sustainability Platform)
• gestion, methodical support and inspection function in individual fields of the Environment Department:
  
  • waste economy (including the issues of PCB), air protection, water management, nature and landscape protection, public health protection (noise and vibration issues)
• providing selected functions based on the principle of their centralization
  
  • accredited measurement of stationary sources of air pollution
  • disposal of hazardous waste, oil register with possible presence of PCB
  • monitoring drinking, waste and technological water
  • redevelopment of old ecological burdens including soil analysis
  • continuous mapping of ecological burdens and their subsequent disposal further to the possibilities of funding from Structural Funds
• providing and updating software for the administration of the Environment agenda including periodical training: SW EisProW for areas of waste economy and air protection
• dealing with ecological consequences of emergencies
• environmental accounting (precise specification of environmental costs) and reporting
• installation, maintenance and management of environmental control systems (ČSN EU ISO series 14000) – civil engineering administrations, Regional Infrastructure Department Liberec