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| I. | CONCEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIMEN BANK (ESB) |
| 1. | The Environmental Specimen Bank in the context of environmental monitoring |
| 2. | Principles of the Environmental Specimen Bank |
| II. | IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONCEPT |
| 1. | Representative sampling areas |
| 1.1 | Environmental specimens |
| 1.2 | Human specimens |
| 2. | Representative functional sub-areas and sampling sites |
| 2.1 | Environmental specimens |
| 2.2 | Human specimens |
| 3. | Representative specimen types |
| 3.1 | Environmental specimens |
| 3.2 | Human specimens |
| 4. | Sampling |
| 4.1 | Documentation |
| 4.2 | Statistics |
| 4.3 | Sampling frequency |
| 4.3.1 | Environmental specimens |
| 4.3.2 | Human specimens |
| 5. | Transportation of specimens |
| 6. | Specimen characterization |
| 7. | Quality assurance |
| 7.1 | Intra-laboratory quality assurance |
| 7.2 | Inter-laboratory quality assurance |
| 7.3 | Documentation |
| 7.4 | Statistics |
| 8. | Storage |
| 8.1 | Storage facilities |
| 8.2 | Parallel storage facilities |
| 9. | Documentation |
| 9.1 | Reports |
| 9.2 | Representation |
| 9.3 | Assessment |
| 9.4 | References to other Federal Government surveys |
| 10. | Regulations for use |
| 10.1 | Retrieval and use of specimens |
| 10.2 | Use of data |
| 10.3 | Release of data |
| 10.4 | Fees for external users |
| 10.5 | Data protection |
| 11. | Accompanying research |
| 11.1 | Review of the sampling sites |
| 11.2 | Special programmes for the conservation of evidence in case of extraordinary, non-routine situations |
| 11.3 | Fingerprint analysis |
| 11.4 | Methodological development |
| 11.5 | Review of specimen types |
| 11.6 | Durability studies |
| 11.7 | Reference materials |
| 11.8 | Retrospective investigations |
| 12. | Information system for the Environmental Specimen Bank |
| Annex 1 | Principles of the ESB sampling plan for environmental specimens |
| Annex 2 | Annual programme for the collection of environmental specimens |
| Annex 3 | Specimen types of the relevant ecosystems |
| Annex 4 | Rules for the provision of specimens and data from the ESB and for the processing of enquiries to the ESB |
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