Transcript 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.

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
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Content
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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
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EEA (European Environment Agency):
Agency):
Who are we?
 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
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•Networks
•- EEA member and cooperating countries
 EEA is dependent upon strong networks to perform our work
 32 EEA Member countries
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EU-27, Iceland, Liechtenstein,
Norway, Switzerland and Turkey
 EEA cooperating countries
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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)
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Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon,
Morocco, Syria, Tunesia and the Occupied
Palestinian Territory (+ Libyia)
 ENP East
•Member countries
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•Cooperating countries
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Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,
Moldova, Ukraine
Why a PRTR? - Purpose
 Public access to environmental information
 Inventories of pollution
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from industrial sites (point sources) but also
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diffuse sources of pollution
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The European Pollutant Release
and Transfer Register (E-PRTR)
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
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•Legalframework
Legal
framework––International
internationalcontext
context
 International context
 UN-ECE* Protocol on PRTR
under the Aarhus Convention concerning
Access to Information, Public Participation
in Decision-making and Access to Justice
in 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
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* UN-ECE: United Nations 7
Economic Commission for Europe
** status on 25/10/2011
Legal framework – European Union context
 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)
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Legal framework – EU Member States
 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
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European PRTR – Point source reporting
 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
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European PRTR – Point source reporting
 Coverage
 25,000 facilities
 65 industrial activities
 91 pollutants
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activities in 9 sectors:
91 pollutants in 7 groups:
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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.
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Greenhouse gases
Other gases
Heavy metals
Pesticides
Chlorinated organic substances
Other organic substance
Inorganic substances
Point Source DATA FLOW
Facility
Release/transfer report
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Competent authority
Validation
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Country
Compilation of reports
Europe
Compilation for EU
Publication of E-PRTR
Public
(http://prtr.ec.europa.eu/)
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European PRTR – Website
A cooperation between EEA and the European Commission
http://prtr.ec.europa.eu
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European PRTR – Website
 Data is searchable by:
 facility name,
 address
 country
 industrial activity
 pollutant
 map
 etc
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Facility search - basic
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Facility search - advanced
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Facility search - Result list
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Facility details – general information
•Activity definition
and …
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Facility details – pollutant releases
… amounts of
pollutants released
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Facility details – Time series
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Map search:
entirely geographical access to data
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Map search:
What is close to you ?
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Map search:
Zoom and select an individual facility
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Data confidentiality: quick facts
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
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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:
website presentation
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Article 4(2)(d)
Confidentiality of commercial or industrial information
Diffuse sources included in E-PRTR
 32 maps
 Scale: 5km by 5km (grids)
 Sectors:
 road transport,
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shipping,
aviation,
domestic heating,
agriculture
business (diffuse emissions)
 Pollutants:
 small
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nitrogen oxides (NOX),
sulphur oxides (SO2),
carbon dioxide (CO2),
ammonia (NH3)
particulate matter (PM10)
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•Diffuse sources:
•Residential combustion (NOx)
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•Diffuse sources: Road transport (NOx)
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•Diffuse sources: Road transport (NOx)
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•Diffuse sources: agriculture (NH3)
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•Diffuse sources: domestic shipping (NOx)
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•Diffuse sources:
•international shipping (SO2)
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Incorporation into E-PRTR website
(data download via EEA’s dataservice)
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[email protected]
ANNEX on EPER and E-PRTR
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MS PRTR protocol ratification:
Different MS data in European and national PRTR?
MS data in E-PRTR
MS specific PRTR
Legal 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
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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
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Differences
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Pollutants (Annex 2)
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PRTR Protocol: 86 / E-PRTR Regulation: 91
(additional pollutants: Octylphenols and Octylphenol ethoxylates, Fluoranthene, Isodrin,
Hexabromobiphenyl, and Benzo(g,h,i)perylene))
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Thresholds (Annex 2)
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E-PRTR more stringent thresholds for 6 pollutants
PCDD+PCDF (dioxins + furans), Tetrachloroethylene (PER), Tetrachloromethane (TCM),
Trichlorobenzenes (TCBs and all isomers), Trichloroethylene, Trichloromethane
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Specific implementation
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Activity threshold
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E-PRTR: capacity threshold
PRTR Protocol: capacity or employee threshold
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