The mission of our www page is to provide reliable and professional information as well as customer driven assistance in order to promote and support effective solutions to ecological problems encountered in the working, living and leisure environments. We believe that expertise of our Institute offering, since many years, research, technical and advisory service will be of assistance to those who seek answers or need help within the broad field of environmental protection. In the www page you will find the information not only on services provided by our research laboratories but also on a wide range of Institute's skills and activities together with relevant references. You will also gain access to the information on environmental education and training drawing upon the Institute' s expert knowledge, on our seminars and conferences as well as on our publishing activity and information sources including databases and networks of ecological information. We also present here our activities within the scope of the State Environmental Monitoring System and facilitate making contacts to other agencies tackling various environmental issues. At the Institute' s Publishing site you may browse on our publications available for sale, and soon you will have an opportunity to order them electronically. We would like to invite you to take this opportunity and visit our Library which has a rich and in some respects unique collection (e.g. on the international collaboration on environmental issues). We believe that each contact with us will provide a good opportunity to broaden your knowledge on environmental protection and will be of help in your everyday activity.