Linking and Streamlining Reporting E-PRTR a register for industrial emissions 16 January 2009

Industrial emissions: E-PRTR, IPPC and sectoral Directives Air Quality: EMEP Water Quality: WISE surface water air Production of paper and board and other primary wood products Main Annex I activity Production of pulp from timber or similar fibrous materials Thermal power plant Annex I activity WWTP Facility P, Operator P Facility Q, Operator Q A B C F E D cooling water Other installation Non-Annex I activity

Shared Environmental Information System SEIS is a collaborative initiative of the Commission and the EEA together with the MSs, to establish an integrated, shared and sustained information system for environmental information in Europe serving two main purposes: - improve the sharing of environmental data and information (or data impacting environmental policies) within Europe and provision of services to public policy makers and citizens; - offer to MSs and EU institutions an efficient system to access environmental data and information to fulfil their reporting obligations related to Community environmental policies and legislation, avoiding duplication of efforts, overlapping and redundancies.

SEIS Principles information should be managed as close as possible to its source information is provided once and shared with others for many purposes data and information should be readily accessible to end-users to enable them to access it timely information should be made available to the public after due consideration of the appropriate level of aggregation, given possible confidentiality constraints, and at national level in the national language(s)

Summary main benefits of SEIS Streamlining of data requirements and data flows More informed policy decisions Wider availability of information and better return on investment Common standards, tools and services At EU level: it will facilitate considerably the current streamlining efforts of data requirements and flows and data flows including better legislation. The MSs inputs will be more consistent and integrated. This will allow efficient EU-level analysis to inform policy discussions related to environmental issues and sustainable development using tools and services that are already developed under established programmes (eg GMES) or that will be developed due to the SEIS boost. This increase of European capacity will lead to more effective and integrated outputs at both MS and EU levels that can be used as the basis for communicating messages and actions against well-defined policy priorities. At MS level: They will benefit from the streamlining and priority setting of data requirements and data flows that SEIS will facilitate with less duplication of efforts. The implementation of the SEIS principle 'report once use many' will enable the use of the same information not just by the small thematic or geographic communities of policy makers (<50 people) but by many other users: policy makers in other themes or sectors, informed public, researchers (>10000). This will render MSs investments for monitoring more cost-effective. Furthermore, MSs will benefit from the standards, tools and services that would need to be developed at European level for implementing SEIS (e.g. portals, viewers, information integrator for performing integrated analysis or for creation of metadata). Finally, MSs will benefit from cross-country benchmarking and from the multi-lingual communication that SEIS will enable. At global level: substantial efficiency gains can be achieved by organising the SEIS in the EU in such a way that allows both MS and the EU to meet their policy commitments and evaluation obligations under the various international conventions and global initiatives. The SEIS will increase the credibility of the EU vis-à-vis international initiatives and programmes related to environmental data collection, management and exploitation such as GEO, GEOSS, Biodiversity conventions etc.

SEIS and E-PRTR SEIS and E-PRTR State of Play: E-PRTR implements SEIS principles: Electronic reporting, Storage of information in database Access to the public through Internet Potential: Distributed E-PRTR storage of data in national PRTR E-PRTR website downloads from national PRTR based on a network of public information providers sharing environmental data and information

What is EPER/European PRTR?

based on IPPC Directive From EPER to E-PRTR European Pollutant Emission Register based on IPPC Directive 12,000 facilities Triennial data (2001 and 2004) 50 substances and 32 different sectors Threshold values about 90% of the emissions of the industrial facilities European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register 2007 first reporting year Annual data from 2009 Point sources emissions - 91 substances (including POPs) emitted from 65 different sectors Additional information Off-site transfer of waste and waste water Emissions caused by accidents on the site Releases to land Diffuse emissions

System = data flow+quality control+register The register is cost effective tool for: Enhance harmonisation of data collection and transfer system Monitor compliance Setting priorities (knowledge based decision) Raising environmental awareness Existing pollutants inventories PRTR

EPER (2001-2004) POPs E-PRTR (2007-) Aldrin Chlordane Chlordecone DDT Dieldrin Endrin Heptachlor Lindane Mirex Toxaphene Dioxins and Furans PCBs Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) * Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) * PeCB PeCB * PBDE (Penta BDE, Octa BDE) PBDE (Penta BDE, Octa BDE) * Endosulphan * Trifluralin * SCCPs

How does the Register function Data accessibility: Tabular queries Geographical queries Graph chart Data download

HCB releases to air

Data gap analysis I Getting the numbers to match up:  making sure that what is reported now is based on common data and approaches and has cross checking and reporting on differences Improving the accuracy of reported data: Includes a focus on actually using facility level data in national estimates and improving national statistics and the use of data from other instruments. Removing reporting duplication: Focussing on what steps/changes are needed to reduce duplicative/redundant reporting elements.  Will include SEIS type eReporting ideas and some thoughts on E-PRTR and how this is integrated with NECD/CLRTAP National reporting (EMEP Database ) and WFD reporting (WISE Database).

Data gap analysis II Releases from diffuse sources Gathering existing data 91 pollutants / agriculture, aviation, construction, domestic fuel combustion, fossil fuel distribution, SMEs, solvent use-road traffic Compile an EU-wide inventory When data is not available > Initiate corresponding reporting

A coordinated effort: MS and operators cooperate to improve the quality of data Community wide electronic database informs the public about important pollutants emissions, mainly from IPPC installations Watch-dog: opportunity for the public to submit inputs, comments and information

Some further streamlining opportunities Link and harmonise Facility ID (WISE-PRTR-IPPC-ETS) > SEIS Traceability Link numerical and descriptive data to spatial data > Integration of different database Apportionment: point source (UWWT~IOWWT) and diffuse sources identification Link emissions releases (discharge) and accidental releases (losses) into water bodies with discharge point ID and coordinates Compare aggregated data (WISE) and disaggregated data (PRTR) Eu-wide inventory for diffuse source (multi-pollutants, multi-sectors) > promote POPs trends

Conclusions EPRTR Regulation Art.5 & 9 contains rules for determining how to collect data Operator is responsible for data collection and quality assurance MS responsible for quality assessment Best available information Internationally approved methodologies Importance of measurement for waste and water Traceability Data transformation according to different user needs (data aggregation) > POPs Avoid duplicating reporting (SEIS and streamlining opportunities)

For more information… DG ENV industrial emissions website http://www.ec.europa.eu/environment/ippc/index.htm EPER >E-PRTR website www.eper.ec.europa.eu/ WISE http://water.europa.eu/en/welcome EMEP http://www.emep.int/

Thanks for your attention Dania Cristofaro DG Environment - Directorate C Climate Change&Air Unit 4 Industrial Emissions & Protection of the ozone layer E-mail: dania.cristofaro@ec.europa.eu