The Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring (REM) data bank was set-up in 1988 to bring together and store in a harmonized way environmental radioactivity data produced in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident. In this way the data bank has mainly two objectives:
- to keep a historical record of the Chernobyl accident, for further scientific study
- to store the radioactivity monitoring data of the EC Member States in order to prepare the Monitoring Report. By means of this report the Member States are informed of the radioactivity levels in the environment in the European Community, as stated in art. 35 - 36 of the Euratom Treaty.
REM is an online database containing a unique collection of environmental radioactivity measurements from a wide number of different sources, media and countries, mainly the 28 EU Member States.
