1. Support for the REFIT actions for the ELD
Task 1: Development of the prototype for an
ELD data gathering tool
4 and 5 October 2017
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2. Outline Process for the development of a prototype for the EU tool
Objective
Establishment of the Conceptual Framework and ELD assessment framework as the basis for an EU tool
Desk research – implementing situation on data gathering
Consultation
Development of the prototype
Functional Analysis
Development of a template and prototype
Conclusions
Next Steps
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3. Process for the development of ELD tool
Objectives of the project
responding to the issues raised by the Evaluation Study on the implementation of the ELD
addressing the following three barriers to the full implementation of the ELD and to reaching its objectives:
Insufficient evidence base for evaluation - there is a need for a register;
Lack of clarity regarding key concepts;
Lack of knowledge on the ELD at national level.
Task 1, Task 2 and Task 3 of the project respond to these three barriers.
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4. Process for the development of ELD IT tool
Objectives of Task 1
ELD REFIT evaluation report concludes that the relatively lack of data on ELD cases and incidents in Member States is linked to the lack of national ELD registries in the majority of Member States. Task 1 aims at:
ensuring that appropriate data and information on ELD cases and ELD implementation is collected at national and EU levels through an ELD tool/Registry.
implementing a mock-up to assess the feasibility of a tool for the reporting, gathering and exploration of ELD implementation data.
The ELD IT tool will encourage the collection and sharing of information on environmental incidents to improve implementation and to enable evaluation of ELD
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5. Process for the development of ELD tool
Establishment of the conceptual framework taking into account REFIT report of ELD and composed of:
Definition of ELD objective
Definition of full implementation of ELD objective: meaning/indicators (Assessment framework)
Definition of project tasks responding to barriers
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6. Process for the development of ELD tool
Establishment of the conceptual framework :
Definition of ELD objective
Environmental damage (incl ELD case); assessment
ELD regime –
definition of operator and damages
Notification of damage and liability
Definition of type of liability
Preventive and remedial measures taken
Compensatory remediation (interim loss pending full recovery)
Financial securities applicable
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7. Process for the development of ELD tool
Establishment of the assessment framework with indicators
Objectives
Judgement criteria
Evaluation criteria
Indicators
Sub-indicators
General objective
To prevent and remedy environmental damage
Objectives of the Directive are still relevant
Relevance
Incidents of damage to environment (E)
Biodiversity damage
Water damage
Soil damage
Air damage
Other types of damages to the environment
Liability cases for environmental incidents under national administrative, civil and criminal law (U)
Administrative law
Civil liability law
Criminal law
The ELD incidents are identified (they are significant)
Environmental damage is prevented or remediated
Relevance / Effectiveness
ELD cases (significant damage) (E)
To establish a framework of environmental liability based on the ‘polluter-pays' principle,
The operators carrying hazardous activities take measures and pay for damages caused
Effectiveness / Efficiency
Cases where the operator takes action and pays for the damage (U) -
Defences applied (E)
Type of liability (E)
Fault based
Strict liability (per each ELD Annex III activity)
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8. Process for the development of ELD tool
Establishment of the assessment framework with indicators
Objectives
Judgement criteria
Evaluation criteria
Indicators
Sub-indicators
Specific objective
Ensure prevention of environmental damages
 Member States progress towards achieving the objectives set out in the Directive
Preventive measures adopted in cases of imminent threat to the environment are adopted and avoided damage
Effectiveness
Cases where preventive measures applied avoided damage (E)
Environmental management systems used
Environmental management systems not used
Cases where preventive measures applied did not avoid damage (E)
Ensure full remediation of environmental damages including for interim loss of resources
Remedial measures are adopted to ensure full recovery
Cases where remedial measures adopted ensure full recovery (E)
Primary remediation
Primary and complementary remediation
Compensatory measures for interim losses
Time to ensure full recovery
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9. Process for the development of ELD tool
Establishment of the assessment framework with indicators
Objectives
Judgement criteria
Evaluation criteria
Indicators
Sub-indicators
Operational objective
Ensure the availability at reasonable costs of insurance and other types of financial security
Costs and benefits associated with compliance with the Directive
Efficiency
Relevance/Efficiency
Costs of action taken (U)
Financial securities applied (E)
Cost of enforcement (U) -
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10. Process for the development of ELD tool
Desk research
Table of information with
Quantitative information on incidents of environmental damage and on ELD cases
Qualitative information on whether specific ELD indicator is recorded and available to public
Summary document of data sources in MS
Table presenting type of data sources in MS
Only few Member States have such registries, e.g. EL, LV, PT.
Others, e.g. FR, gather information through other registries (ARIA database)
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11. Process for the development of ELD tool
Desk research
Table presenting type of data sources in MS
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12. Process for the development of ELD tool
Consultation
ELD Government Experts in all Member States on data gathering tools
ELD expert authorities of selected Member States on existing data
France, Greece, Portugal, Romania, UK
ELD experts testing the prototype
Greece and Portugal
Commission sources for inspiration:
NOAA’s Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program (DARRP) tool,
INSPIRE Dashboard tool,
Starred datasets to view together with ELD data:
Natura 2000 sites (Habitats and Birds Directives);
E-PRTR Directive (Industrial facilities)
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13. Process for the development of ELD tool
Member States ELD Application EU
Member States
EU DATABASE
EU ELD Central Application
European Union ELD Central Application – Web Access
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14. Process for the development of ELD tool
Technical specifications: FrontEnd (Presentation Layer) Full responsive application Latest open source development technologies
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15. Process for the development of ELD tool
Technical specifications: Bussiness Logic (Application Layer)
Technologies used: 
JAX-WS para Web Services
Spring JDBC para acceso a base de datos
Spring security para control de acceso a partes de la aplicación (autenticación y autorización)
Highcharts JS v  Para gráficos de barras, etc.
OpenLayers.js Para mapas GeoServer  
Users management module
Registration of new users in the application
Modifying user's data
Delete an existing user. Note that all user drops are "logical"
(users are not physically deleted from the tables)
Activation mechanism for users who uses password to access - send mail
Password Recovery
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16. Process for the development of ELD tool
Technical specifications: Business database
Content:
Environmental damage
The liable legal person
Remediation process
Remediation cost
Administrative costs
Defences applied
Type of liability
Financial securities
Judicial review
Directive applied
Geographic information of the environmental damage locations
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17. Process for the development of ELD tool
EU ELD Register Template established 4 main features of the ELD IT tool:
Map viewer for exploration of environmental incidents and ELD cases;
Dashboard (Statistics interactive data visualisation);
Country fiches on ELD qualitative & quantitative data and links (content management system);
Data entry form to edit data through Internet end points;
Please test it and play with it!!
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18. Process for the development of ELD tool
ELD tool prototype:
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19. Process for the development of ELD tool
Map viewer:
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20. Process for the development of ELD tool
Dashboard (I)
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21. Process for the development of ELD tool
Dashboard (II)
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22. Process for the development of ELD tool
Country fiches (overview)
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23. Process for the development of ELD tool
Country fiches (detailed)
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24. Process for the development of ELD tool
Upload data (I)
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25. Process for the development of ELD tool
Upload data (II)
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26. Process for the development of ELD tool
Upload data (III)
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27. Conclusions Conclusions Lack of data is an issue
Member States involvement did not allow to obtain more info in the mock up
Potential for future use / easy to input existing information and manage the content
Potential for future use by MS and promoting decentralised data collection
Envisaged as a hub on MS geographical information on the environment supported by INSPIRE Directive compliancy
Envisaged to be an Open Source tool to be authorised and used by MS as a national information system
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28. Project Next Steps Final development of prototype
Comments up to 10 October
Final Report on Task 2:
Common Understanding Document of key concepts & terms
Final Report on Task 3: Training and Capacity building
Final Draft Report
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29. Thank you
Marta Ballesteros Marco Pinto Alberto Telletxea
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