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Reporting according to pollution registers
Experiences in Austria
Mag. Daniela Wappel
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Overview
What is EPER?
Implementation in Austria
Difficulties and lessons learnd
Future goals
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What is EPER?
EPER is the European Pollutant Emission Register - the first European-wide register of industrial emissions into air and water
Legal basis: EPER Decision on the implementation of a European pollutant emission register (EPER) (2000/479/EC)
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What is EPER?
Reporting Requirements:
• Releases to air and water • 50 Pollutants• 58 Activities• Reporting every three years
• First reporting year:2000• Second reporting year: 2004
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What is EPER?
Most important goals of EPER
enhance the awareness for environmental pollution compare emissions from individual facilities trigger industry in improving environmental
performance enable the Commission and national governments to
monitor the trends in annual emissions of large and medium sized industrial facilities
provide scientists, local authorities and policy makers with a solid Europe wide emission database.
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Implementation in Austria
http://www.umweltbundesamt.at/eper
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Implementation in Austria
EPER-Regulation
EPER Reporting of pollutant emission loads for the development of a European Pollutant Emission RegisterFederal Gazette: BGBl. II Nr. 300/2002
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Implementation in Austria Data flow
EPER Facility
Competent Authority
Governor
Ministry of Environment
Ministry of Economic Affairs
Umweltbundesamt
European Commission /
EEAPublic
www.umweltbundesamt.at
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Involved Institutions
~ 440 facilities
~125 local authorities
9 regional authorities9 governors
Ministry for Environment / Economic Affairs
Umweltbundesamt
EP
ER
data
flow
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UmweltbundesamtTasks
= federal environment agency = environmental expert authority
consistency and completeness check technical implementation and maintainance of
electronic EPER System submit EPER data to European Commission make EPER data publicly available
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Technical Implementation
Electronic EPER System• web forms• accounts for operators and authorities• different access rights
+ helpdesk + information workshops+ internet interface
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Lessons learnedmain difficulties of the facilities
identify / define EPER facility respectively reporting unit
identify and distinguish between Main Annex I activity and other Annex I activities
calculate or estimate the annual emissions differences between reporting obligations
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Lessons learned Main difficulties of the authorities
unusual and strange way of interaction Plausibility check
Without standardised guidelines reports did not contain any information about the
methodologies the operators used to calculate the annual emissions
time frame additional burden for the experts to their usual
work
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Further developmentEPER PRTR
UN-ECE Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) under the Aarhus Convention
signed by EU + 15 MS in Kiev at the Ministerial Conference „Environment for Europe“ on 21 May 2003
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Further development EPER PRTR
EPER • Releases to air
and water • 50 Pollutants• 58 Activities• Reporting every
three years
PRTR Releases to air, water and
land • 90 Pollutants• 65 Activities • annual reporting
• Off-site transfers of waste• Diffuse sources• Public participation in
decision making
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Further development EPER PRTR
EPER has to be upgraded to a comprehensive European PRTR
EPER will be replaced by the PRTR
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Benefits of e-Reporting
better transparency less mistakes clearer understanding and communications
between respondents and regulatory authorities
more timeliness increase costs
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Future Goals
substitute paper based systems for reporting and administration with modern innovative electronic structures
harmonise the reporting obligations on environmental information on national and international level
minimize the burden for operators and authorities
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Future Goals
Consider technical requirements of electronic reporting systems in new national environmental laws.
Data Management System links several reporting obligations (waste, water, air) use synergies minimize the amount of data operators have to
report Recorde data once
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International Solution EUDIN
Crossborder Waste Transport EC Shipment Regulation (EEC) No 259/93:
Notifiy Transport Notify Waste Receipt Notify Waste Recovery/Disposal
Actors: Consigner (Exporter) Consignee (Importer) Competent Authority of Export Competent Authority of Import Competent Authority of Transit
Paper based process: Time-consuming Error-prone
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MessageBroker
Data recorded only once,Data is electronicallydistributed to other
actors – no human intervention
Increase SpeedIncrease AccuracyDecrease ErrorsDecrease Cost
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International Solution
Seamless integration requires Agreed-upon Document Standards
Agreed-upon Business Choreography
Proprietary solutions are ineligible
International accepted standards are required
UN/CEFACT offers solutions Reuse of document building blocks:
Core Components
Methodology to develop consistent business processes:UN/CEFACT‘s Modeling Methodology (UMM)
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EPER questionnaireRegistration
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EPER questionnaireFacility
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EPER questionnaireReporting Unit
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EPER questionnaireReporting Unit
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EPER questionnaireActivities
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EPER questionnaireEmissions into Air
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EPER questionnaireEmissions into Water
