Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review

In 2006, the trends in the change of ecological risk factors in Lithuania were similar to those of 2005. The risk factors, which contributed to the change of the state's ecological condition in the field of the atmosphere protection, included the rapidly growing number of automobiles, inefficient city traffic control systems, and the lack of bypasses, whereas the risks in the sector of water consumption safety were posed by a worn out central water supply networks, insufficient quality of the drinking water and dug well water. Thus, the objectives set down in the National Ecological Security Assurance Programme are to reduce ecological risk, prevent a negative impact on the environment and to set the national priorities in the sphere of the prevention of emergencies.