1. Streamlining of Industrial Emissions Reporting
2nd EIONET NRC workshop on Industrial Pollution
16-17 June 2016
European Commission – DG Environment,
Industrial Emissions & Safety Unit 1 1

2. General background
In relation to Industrial Emissions reporting and its relation to E-PRTR, the Commission is currently implementing two projects:
IED reporting tools and EU registry
Integration of Large Combustion Plants (LCP) reporting into the E-PRTR website 2

3. Project partners:
DG ENV EEA
(project lead) (IT infrastructure) 3

4. IED Reporting tools / EU registry
Main objective
Translate Annex II of Reporting decision into IT tool
Streamline/integrate different reporting obligations
Data sets:
IED installation data – Impl. Dec /795/EU - Annex II
E-PRTR
IED Chapter III – LCP data 4

5. Development of IED reporting tool – state of play
Annex II of IED reporting decision 2012/795/EU  Electronic Reporting Tool (ERT)
IT contract signed in Autumn 2015
Make reporting easier for Member States (MS), EEA and Commission, provide flexibility, accommodate varying structures in MS, etc.
Contract also covers work on EU registry 5

6. EU registry
IED, E-PRTR and LCP data flows cover similar industrial activities
Setting up EU registry containing administrative data on industrial sites
Aim:
streamline reporting of admin data through a single schema (within limits of existing legal framework)
to increase consistency across data flows
to allow exploiting synergies between data flows
to lower administrative burden 6

7. EU Registry on Industrial sites7

8. ‘Level 2’ entities ‘Installation’ (IED, E-PRTR) ‘Facility’ (E-PRTR)
means “a stationary technical unit within which one or more activities listed in Annex I or in Part 1 of Annex VII [to IED] are carried out, and directly associated activities on the same site with a technical connection to the activities listed and which could have an effect on emissions and pollution”
‘Facility’ (E-PRTR)
“one or more installations on the same site that are operated by the same natural or legal person”
(Combustion) ‘Plant’ (IED)
refers to a “combustion plant” covered by Chapter III of the IED or a “waste (co-)incineration plant” covered by Chapter IV of the IED 8

9. ‘Level 1 entity’: interconnecting ‘level 2’ entities
EU registry: register and link different ‘level 2’ entities through their (common) administrative data.
Communality: activities are operated on a ‘site’ = ”geographical location of the facility” (E-PRTR, INSPIRE)
'level 2' entities linked based on their geographical location ('operated on a single site")
simplification: geographical reality presented as unique (X,Y) coordinates, defining 'level 1' entity, encompassing several 'level 2' entities 9

10. Original timeline (under evaluation)
MS workshop on concept IED ERT: Q1 2016
Processing MS Feedback: ongoing
Testing of IED ERT incl. registry: Q3–Q4 2016
MS meeting on feedback testing phase: Q4 2016
Submission of registry data (all level-2 entities, incl. all IED installations) sufficiently in advance of reporting deadline to enable smooth functioning of ERT
MS report via new ERT: Sept. 2017
System in place for E-PRTR/LCP reporting: March 2018
Envisaged date project conclusion: May 2018
These (original) timelines are currently under evaluation. 10

11. Integration LCP reporting in E-PRTR website
Aim:
Single reporting on administrative and geographic data based on INSPIRE principles for industrial point sources
Thematic dataflows covering implementation, emissions, permits etc. etc.
Integration LCP reporting in E-PRTR website

12. Background: LCP data into E-PRTR
For Large Combustion Plants (LCPs) emissions data and fuel use are collected at plant level since under Directive 2001/80/EC.
IED continues these reporting obligations from 1/1/2016 onwards. 12

13. Subject of the project Integrate LCP reporting into E-PRTR
Restructure E-PRTR xml schema
Update reporting workflow and associated tools in Reportnet (EEA)
Carry out a testing phase with MS, help them adjusting their systems
User manual / documentation / update current guidance E-PRTR Reporters 13

14. Project tasks Data specification
Integration options and XML Reporting Schema
Quality assurance & control, data harvesting & transfer routines
Harvesting of data and E-PRTR master database
Deployment, bug fixing and handover
Documentation, Standards and User Manual 14

15. Summary of completed tasks
Task 1 (Data specification): completed. Identifiers created allowing links with IED
Task 2 (Integr. options & XML Report. Schema): completed. New schema(s)/web-form(s) were developed and existing E-PRTR xml-schema were restructured
Task 3 (QA/QC and data transfer): almost fully completed. New QA/QC reporting tools are being implemented 15

16. Summary of ongoing tasks
Task 4 (Data harvesting and E-PRTR master database):
Design DB model, Implementation of harvesting routines, conversion MDB files to XML structure, testing routines and compilation of data
Task 5 (Deployment, bug fixing & handover):
Deployment reporting tools in production environment, deployment of new database model & SQL routines, bug fixing period
Task 6 (Documentation, Standards and User Manual):
Data specification document integration LCP reporting, IT tech. spec's reporting tools, IT tech. spec's data integration, MS reporting user manual, handover documentation. 16

17. Timeline (provisional)
Testing of E-PRTR and LCP modules took place: Q1 2016
MS meeting on feedback testing phase: Q2 2016
Closure of project: Q3-Q4 2016
Finalisation of EU Registry: Q1 2017
Fine tuning of interaction between EU Registry and LCP-E- PRTR integration project: Q – Q2 2017
Envisaged date project conclusion: May 2018
These timelines are currently under evaluation. 17

18. Thank you very much! Further information: DG ENV C.4 (IED)