The department is involved in applied research activities and services in the field of environmental quality control and monitoring, respectively of the environmental components water, air, soil, sediments and waste.

The activity carried out within the department aims at the following directions:

• research activities and monitoring of environmental parameters to solve specific problems arising in the technological processes carried out by economic agents;
• the development and implementation of new effective methods/methodologies for evaluating the quality of the environment, reducing the level of pollution in order to improve the health of the population;
• assessment of the quality of the environmental components water, air, soil within research projects with national / international funding or through documentation requested from economic agents by the environmental authorities.