1. INFORMATION ON AIR EMISSIONS (GHG and air pollutants)
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INFORMATION ON AIR EMISSIONS
(GHG and air pollutants)
SEIS Country Visit Workshop - Slovenia
2 June 2009, Ljubljana
Melanija Lešnjak
(Head of Air Quality Section)

2. Our mission Environment and Nature Convervation Office –
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Our mission
Environment and Nature Convervation Office –
Air Quality Section (17 employees)
We implement legislation in the field of air/GHG emissions
We are the competent authority for issuing (environmental and other) permits
RTE registry, national emission inventory
We collect data, check compliance, report and provide data to the public

3. Legal framework NATIONAL LEGISLATION EU ACQUIS - GHG monitoring - LCP
- GHG emission trading VOC
- ODS & F-gases IPPC
- Fuel quality & biofuels NEC
CONVENTIONS
- UNFCCC - POPs Stockholm Convention
- CLRTAP Montreal Protocol
NATIONAL LEGISLATION
- CO2 tax exemptions
- non-IPPC permits
- emission monitoring & reporting
for stationary sources ...

4. Regular Reporting To EC and EEA: according to EU legislation
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Regular Reporting
To EC and EEA: according to EU legislation
For regional/global Conventions
Other: OECD, EUROSTAT ...
National: national state of the environment report & indicators

5. Public information on the internet
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Public information on the internet
Reports provided to EC, EEA, Conventions
(mostly as internet links to CDR)
Different information:
1) national emissions of GHG and air pollutants including
data interpretation (EIONET indicators etc.)
2) info on issued environmental permits
3) info on VOC installations
4) yearly emissions from stationary emission sources
5) licenses issued for monitoring
(emissions/fuel quality/VOC content in paints and varnishes)
6) accounts and transactions in emissions trading registry
7) CO2 tax exemptions
8) allowed uses of ODS and F-gases

6. Requests for public information
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Requests for public information
General public: air emissions in the neighbourhood
NGOs: GHG emissions, industrial emissions
Jounalists: CO2 tax, (bio)fuels, trafic/industrial emissions
Chamber of commerce, R&T institutes ....
Students

7. Our data bases National emissions inventory:
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Our data bases
National emissions inventory:
Excel spreadsheets – at present
Oracle data base – under development
REMIS - yearly reports on emissions from stationary sources
GHG emission permits
VOC-solvent management plans
CO2 tax exemptions
MS Access data bases
Future plans: Oracle data base on emissions from stationary sources & environmental permits

8. Our views: EU/Conventions Framework
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Our views: EU/Conventions Framework
Amount of reporting: 25 reports in 2009 !!!
EC’s effort on legislation streamlining (incl. reporting) – too slow
Different reporting templates, (too) frequent changes in contents and templates
Sophisticated systems are demanding in particular for small MSs
Example: ETS - small database, but demanding software and its operation requirements
Reporting under Conventions: to be harmonised with EU reporting to the highest possible extent

9. Our views: Domestic Framework
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Our views: Domestic Framework
Lack of IT support at EARS for development and maintenance of solid databases
Increasing requests for public information – need for (more) IT support to exctract data from our data bases
Frequent changes in domestic legislation

10. 9/14/2018
Our vision
Transformation of our present data bases to Oracle and their interconnection,
in order to:
better support administrative (permiting) procedures,
enable better data quality controls & compliance checks
enable automated outputs for different reporting templates
enable automated outputs for web (public information)