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he presenting work is devoted to a comprehensive environment impact assessment for mercury, which enters the air, water bodies and soil from anthropogenic sources. In this paper, for the first time, the approach to obtaining estimates for the mercury footprint on a global scale will be presented. This is a very important result of big research work because it allows us to get adequate assessments of the success of any activities on implementation e.g. of the Minamata Convention. In this model global GIS data as a source of information was used, which is necessary for the modelling of processes of mercury migration between compartment and transboundary transfers. The result of this work is maps of the mercury footprint for environmental media. This result allows us to assess the most vulnerable areas and components of the environment, as well as to predict the results that may be caused by regulatory impact