E-PRTR European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register - Public access to information

E-PRTR European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register - Public access to information

Eva Goossens, EEA ([email protected])

"Get your right to a healthy community“ Subregional Workshop on PRTR for countries in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia

Subregional Workshop on PRTR4th November 2011

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EEA – who are we – what do we do?

PRTR – why?

Legal framework in Europe

European PRTR

Coverage / data flow

Website – Public access

Diffuse sources in E-PRTR

Rationale for diffuse inventoryContent of the presentation


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EEA is an independent agency of the European Union

Role: to provide sound, independent information on the environment be a major information source for those involved in developing,

adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, and also the general public

EEA (European Environment Agency): Who are we? EEA (European Environment Agency): Who are we?


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•Member countries

•Cooperating countries

EEA is dependent upon strong networks to perform our work

•Networks •- EEA member and cooperating countries

32 EEA Member countries EU-27, Iceland, Liechtenstein,

Norway, Switzerland and Turkey

EEA cooperating countries 7 West Balkan countries: Albania,

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia as well as Kosovo under the UN Security Council Resolution 1244/99.

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ENP South (Mediterranean) Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon,

Morocco, Syria, Tunesia and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (+ Libyia)

ENP East Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,

Moldova, Ukraine


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Why a PRTR? - Purpose

Public access to environmental information

Inventories of pollution

from industrial sites (point sources) but also

diffuse sources of pollution


On-line access to information of pollution generated by industry and diffuse sources, such as transport, agriculture, and domestic heating, for which emissions cannot be measured at specific points

The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR)


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International context

UN-ECE* Protocol on PRTRunder the Aarhus Convention concerningAccess to Information, Public Participationin Decision-making and Access to Justicein Environmental Matters

‘open’ global Protocol 27 Parties

EU, 21 EU MS + Albania, Croatia, Norway, Switzerland, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Entered into force October 2009 Data available as of 2012 (reference year 2010)

86 pollutants

* UN-ECE: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe** status on 25/10/2011

•Legal framework – international contextLegal framework – International context


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European Union (EU) legislation

Regulation (EC) 166/2006 Establishes the European PRTR

Based on a previous register (EPER) and IPPC Directive

32 countries:

– 27 EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway– Switzerland and Serbia (voluntary)

Annual reporting

Data available as of 2007 (first published in 2009)

Implements the PRTR Protocol + beyond 91 pollutants (Hexabromobiphenyl, Octylphenols, Fluoranthene, Isodrin,

Benzo(g,h,i)perylene + 86 of the PRTR Protocol)

Legal framework – European Union context


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E-PRTR

Obligation to report data to EU

National PRTR = national choice

National legislation

Point source / diffuse sources

Pollutants: number and thresholds

Ratification of PRTR Protocol – national PRTR should at least be in compliance with the requirements of the UNECE Protocol

Legal framework – EU Member States


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Who?

Operators of 29,000 facilities undertaking one or more ‘Annex I’ activities above a capacity threshold set in the E-PRTR Regulation

What?

Releases of pollutants to air, water and land reporting threshold (per pollutant and media) routine and accidental releases

Off-site transfers of waste Hazardous waste > 2 tonnes per year Non-hazardous waste > 2000 tonnes per year

Off-site transfer of pollutants in waste water Pollutants above Annex II threshold

European PRTR – Point source reporting


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Coverage 25,000 facilities 65 industrial activities 91 pollutants

65 activities in 9 sectors: Energy Production and processing of metals Mineral industry Chemical industry * Waste and waste water management Paper and wood production and processing Intensive livestock production and

Aquaculture Animal and vegetable products from the food

and beverage sector Other activities.

91 pollutants in 7 groups:

Greenhouse gases Other gases Heavy metals Pesticides Chlorinated organic substances Other organic substance Inorganic substances

* No thresholds

European PRTR – Point source reporting


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Competent authorityValidation

CountryCompilation of reports

Europe Compilation for EUPublication of E-PRTR

Public (http://prtr.ec.europa.eu/)

FacilityRelease/transfer report

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Point Source DATA FLOW


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A cooperation between EEA and the European Commission http://prtr.ec.europa.eu

European PRTR – Website


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Data is searchable by: facility name, address country industrial activity pollutant map etc

European PRTR – Website


Facility search - basic


Facility search - advanced


Facility search - Result list


•Activity definition and …

Facility details – general information


… amounts of pollutants released

Facility details – pollutant releases


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Facility details – Time series


Map search: entirely geographical access to data


Map search: What is close to you ?


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Map search: Zoom and select an individual facility


When information is kept confidential by a Member State, a reason has to be provided in accordance with Art.4 Directive 2003/4/EC on public access to environmental information •261 facilities in 4 countries ( Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Sweden)•Mainly waste transfers and facility names

Reasons for confidentiality

• Proceeding of public authorities – Article 4(2)(a) • International relations, public security or national defence

- Article 4(2)(b) • the course of Justice- Article 4(2)(c) • Commercial or industrial information - Article 4(2)(d) • Intellectual property rights - Article 4(2)(e) • Personal data (natural person) - Article 4(2)(f) • The interest or protection of any person providing data on

a voluntary basis - Article4(2)(g) • The protection of the environment to which such

information relates – Article 4(2)(h)

Data confidentiality: quick facts


Article 4(2)(d) Confidentiality of commercial or industrial information

Data confidentiality: Data confidentiality: website presentationwebsite presentation


Diffuse sources included in E-PRTR

32 maps Scale: 5km by 5km (grids) Sectors:

road transport, shipping, aviation, domestic heating, agriculture small business (diffuse emissions)

Pollutants: nitrogen oxides (NOX), sulphur oxides (SO2), carbon dioxide (CO2), ammonia (NH3) particulate matter (PM10)


•Diffuse sources: •Residential combustion (NOx)


•Diffuse sources: Road transport (NOx)


•Diffuse sources: agriculture (NH3)


•Diffuse sources: domestic shipping (NOx)


•Diffuse sources: •international shipping (SO2)


Incorporation into E-PRTR website (data download via EEA’s dataservice)

[email protected]


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ANNEX on EPER and E-PRTR


MS PRTR protocol ratification:Different MS data in European and national PRTR?

MS data in E-PRTR MS specific PRTRLegal framework E-PRTR Regulation National legislation

Information Point source data (facilities) Point source data (facilities) + inventory of diffuse sources

Publication E-PRTR website National PRTR website

Frequency / timelines Annual update (from 2010 onwards April – data of year x-2)

At least annual update of point source data

Industrial sectors/activities 65 At least 65 of PRTR protocol

Pollutants 91 ? (at least 86 of PRTR protocol)

Thresholds Defined in E-PRTR regulation At least in compliance with PRTR Protocol


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E-PRTR Regulation versus PRTR Protocol

Differences

Pollutants (Annex 2)

PRTR Protocol: 86 / E-PRTR Regulation: 91(additional pollutants: Octylphenols and Octylphenol ethoxylates, Fluoranthene, Isodrin, Hexabromobiphenyl, and Benzo(g,h,i)perylene))

Thresholds (Annex 2)

E-PRTR more stringent thresholds for 6 pollutants PCDD+PCDF (dioxins + furans), Tetrachloroethylene (PER), Tetrachloromethane (TCM), Trichlorobenzenes (TCBs and all isomers), Trichloroethylene, Trichloromethane

Specific implementation

Activity threshold

E-PRTR: capacity threshold PRTR Protocol: capacity or employee threshold

E-PRTR European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register - Public access to information

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