1 Reportnet – an introduction Reportnet – an introduction Presentation for the Meeting on IPPC/WI Brussels, 3 March 2009 Søren Roug, EEA

2 Data reporting before Reportnet… The Public and Decision-Makers NFP, other National Authorities PCP, NRC EEA Big report consultants ETC ACC ETC BD ETC Water CECOthers

3 EEA The Public and Decision-Makers ETC ACC ETC BD ETC Water NFP and other National Authorities PCP, NRC ESTATOthers DG ENV, others Reportnet …and after :-)

4 What is Reportnet? Reportnet is a system of integrated IT tools and processes creating a shared information infrastructure to support the reporting of environmental data and information in Europe

5 Reportnet modules  Reporting Obligations Database ROD (A web database of reporting obligations)ROD  Data Dictionary/XML schemas (Software tools for data element specifications)  Data Exchange Modules (Software tools supporting the delivery process)  QA and conversion system Converters (Tools to evaluate the quality of a delivery)Converters  Directory DIR (A web database of users, organisations and roles)DIR  Central Data Repository CDR (A website to upload reported data, Automatic QA)CDR

6 Waste reporting obligations in ROD

7 Factsheet on the obligation

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9 Definitions in Reportnet Data Dictionary Example: Noise Agglomerations

10 CDR: the data from the countries

11 Delivery possibilities Uploading office files – Excel, Access etc. – Automatic QA is not possible Generate XML from database system and upload Filling out webforms – only for small amounts Uploading and converting special MS- Excel template

12 CDR: delivering ELV Directive

13 Automatic Quality Assurance Application of QA scripts (:=============================================================:) (: Rule 1 :) (: Goes through all the Rows in the document and checks if there exist:) (: similar EWN codes in the same document:) (:=============================================================:) declare function local:checkEWNCode($url as xs:string) { for $pn in fn:distinct-values(fn:doc($url)//dd8:EWN-Code) let $i := fn:doc($url)//dd8:EWN-Code= $pn] where fn:count($i) > 1 order by $pn return {$pn} };

14 Completing the delivery

15 What happens after delivery? Automatic QA is run on all XML files Delivery is made available to the public Data Requester is notified Requester does manual QA Potentially requester rejects the delivery Then Reporter is notified and must fix the issues

16 Monitoring of data flows - ROD again