ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale

The ISPRA, was established by the Law 133/2008.
It performs the functions, with the financial resources, equipment and personnel, of the APAT referred to the Article 38 of Legislative Decree No 300 of 30 July 1999, and subsequent amendments, of the Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica (INFS, i.e. National Institute for Wildlife) referred to the Law of 11 February 1992 157, and subsequent amendments, and of the Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca scientifica e tecnologica Applicata al Mare (ICRAM, i.e. Central Institute for Scientific and Technological Research Applied to the Sea) referred to the Article 1-bis of Decree-Law 4 December 1993, 496, converted into law with amendments, Article 1 , paragraph 1 of the Law January 21, 1994, No 61.
ISPRA is supervised by the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea.

http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/site/it-IT/

Into ISPRA also merged the Mareographic Service, which provides the Web portal IDROMAR that allows to make an immediate data analysis selecting a location through the drop-down menu or the interactive map, making an advanced analysis in the section Data Analysis, having information about Networks Structures of the Marigraphic Service, reading scientific articles and making a registration to reach portal advanced functionalities.

http://www.idromare.it