Unpleasant odors affecting people life quality are often of great concern for Public Authorities. As well in Italy where the Five Star Movement is organizing a study session on odor annoyance in collaboration with the company Lab Service Analytica: recently awarded with a Horizon 2020 SME Inst. Research and Innovation programme grant for his device OdorPrep. The session on odor annoyance will take place in Rome the 10th of October 2010.

   The deputy of the parliament Gianluca Rospi, from the party Five Star Movement and member of the Commission for Environment, Territory and Work, will open the venue. Prof. Pierluigi Barbieri (University of Trieste), as chairperson of the morning session, will introduce lectures about relevant case studies and experiences with odor harassments carried out by Italian National Public Authorities and the University of Bari and Trieste.

   One more year, Aquaenviro is organizing another event focused on odour management.  After some successful events related with this subject, the organization has decided to do it again.

   Nuisance emissions can have a substantial impact upon the quality of peoples’ life especially when it is associated with waste handling and treatment plants, wastewater and sludge treatment plants and the application of materials to land. In the UK, nuisance odours from industrial, trade and business premises are regulated by local councils under the Environment Act 1990 and controlled under H4 guidance.