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Contents

Acknowledgements. 6

Executive summary. 7

1 Introduction. 10

1.1 Purpose of the study.10

1.2 EPER chemicals and modelling priorities.11

1.3 Structure of this report15

2 Methodology. 16

2.1 Model evaluation criteria16

2.2 Contents of a model toolbox.18

3 Phase 1 — Model evaluation. 20

3.1 General aspects20

3.2 Air Quality models20

3.3 Multimedia models38

3.4 Surface water models59

3.5 Sewage treatment models.63

3.6 Conclusions from Phase 166

4 Phase 2 — Strategy, demonstration and proposals for development67

4.1 Strategy development.67

4.2 Demonstration of the staged approach to modelling chemical density. 73

4.3 Work plan for predicting chemical density from EPER releases.97

4.4 Conclusions from Phase 2107

Appendix 1: Technical specification. 109

Appendix 2: List of participants. 112

Appendix 3: Comments on the draft final report from experts at the Brno chemical modelling

summer school, July 2005. 113

Appendix 4: Proceedings of expert workshop, 16 August 2005, EEA, Copenhagen 117