1. Large Combustion Plants dataflow management
2nd Eionet NRC workshop on Industrial Pollution
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2. Institutional setting and IT tools
Legal obligation: Directive 2001/80/EC (Large Combustion Plants - LCP) - Annex VIII (B) requires annual reporting of energy input and total emissions to air (SO2, NOx and dust) from all large combustion plants, on a plant by plant basis (LCP reports).
Electronic reporting tool (web-form) was developed to improve the accuracy and completeness of Member States’ LCPs reports (deliveries are made through EEA Reportnet);
Around 20 Quality Assurance/Quality Control checks (QA/QCs) are run automatically and also the European Topic Centre on Air Pollution and Climate Change Mitigation (ETC/ACM) verifies LCP data submitted by Member States, by a two steps process by providing Excel feedback files to them;
Further, LCP Datasets are aggregated into an European LCP database and published on the EEA website and integrated in the E-PRTR website to ensure access to the public;

3. Summary of the delivery process

4. Web-form visualisation

5. Overall workflow, timing
EU Member States prepare LCP reports by using the web-form by 31 March every year. During this process, automated QA/QCs are run by the countries (schema validation and thematic checks) after filling in and saving data in the web-form.
During April – May, EEA analyses MS LCP reports and provides feedback files (Excel) to countries flagging potential outliers or errors;
MS are invited to answer and provide clarifications to the feedback files;
In case a MS confirms that the LCP report contains errors, the MS will have to resubmit it’s LCP data (by web-form) together with an explanatory file (Excel) into an envelope in CDR.
The overall aim of this process is to improve the quality of the European-wide data on Large Combustion Plants, in terms of completeness, accuracy, consistency and comparability.

6. Cooperation with the ETC/ACM
Cooperation with the European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change Mitigation (ETC/ACM)
Role: the ETC/ACM assists the European Environment Agency (EEA) in performing the tasks resulting from the Multi-Annual Working Programme (MAWP), followed by Annual Action Plans
Task leader Mr. Lorenz Moosmann (MBA) from UBA-Vie
Emissions inventory expert (CLRTAP and LCP)
Presentation:
Brief description of QA/QCs
Statistics of work that has been done up to now
Main errors encountered during the process and how countries have been reacting to them in corrections
A brief summary of the 2014 dataset

7. Thank you for your attention