Appendix (explanation of symbols in tables)
Environmental Indicators for Hungary
| Socio-Economic Developments | P | GDP; Population; Life expectancy; Mortality; Health |
| R | Environmental expenditures; Pollution control and abatement expenditures; Local environmental expenditures | |
| Climate Change | P | CO2 emissions by sector; Energy consumption; Total CO2, methane, and N2O emissions |
| S | Trends of annual temperature in Budapest in the past 200 years | |
| R | Measures taken against climate change | |
| Ozone Depletion | P | CFC emissions |
| S | Utilization of ozone depleting substances in Hungary | |
| R | ||
| Acidification | P | SO2, NH3, and NOx emissions by sector; Deposition of S and N; TSP emissions by sector |
| S | Soil pH; Area of acidified soils; Air quality / regional SO2, NO2, dust | |
| R | National environmental protection programs | |
| Tropospheric Ozone | P | Total CO and NMVOC emissions |
| S | ||
| R | ||
| Land | P | Use of pesticides; Land use change; Areas withdrawn from agricultural use; Soil types in Hungary; |
| S | Soil loss due to erosion and area affected; Natural soil properties; Lead pollution; Cadmium pollution; Arsenic pollution | |
| R | Arrangements in the area of soil protection | |
| Biodiversity Loss | P | |
| S | Protected vs. total species; Endangered species | |
| R | Protected areas of international importance; Breakdown of nationally significant conservation areas according to cultivation; Number of protected species; Ramsar convention sites | |
| Forests | P | Trends of harvested wood, annual increment & growing stock; Distribution of forest areas among the main forest types; Distribution of the species group as % of forest area |
| S | Forest covered areas; Defoliation rate by % of tree species; Conservation areas according to the type of protection; Growing stock by age classes; Health status of the forests on the basis of surveys for management planning | |
| R | ||
| Eutrophication & Water Quality | P | Use of fertilizers; Waste water composition; Balance of extraction & infiltration in Transdanubia Mountain; Ground water vulnerability; Point pollution of surface waters; Use of pesticides |
| S | Ground water quality; Differences between phreatic surface in 1996 & 1956-60; Changes in chlorophyll, P, & N content in lakes; Changes in ortophosphate, ammonia & nitrate concentration; Changes in O2 balance; Changes in pH | |
| R | Ground water protection; Waste water treatment; Population connected to public sewers | |
| Water Resources & Quantity | P | Water use balance; Water resources of rivers and lakes; Population connected to public water supplies; Irrigated land |
| S | Ground water resources | |
| R | ||
| Urban Air Quality | P | |
| S | Population exposure to air pollution | |
| R | ||
| Urban Population, Land Use & Transport | P | Total urban and rural population: state and trends |
| S | ||
| R | ||
| Waste & Noise | P | Waste generation by type; Hazardous wastes generation; Share of categories of hazardous and solid municipal waste; Transported solid municipal waste by county; Transported hazardous waste by county; Accumulated dangerous waste |
| S | Municipal solid waste composition in 1996; Proportion of population connected to public utility service (Number of flats with public water supply; number of flats on area with sewers); Noise levels; Public opinion on traffic noise | |
| R | Waste incineration |