Was macht das Umweltbundesamt

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JOINT WORKSHOP Twinning projects EPER/Critical
Loads and Water Quality 4-6 September 2006 EPER
data availability Gertraud Moser Austrian
Federal Environment Agency
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Overview presentation

• First part Aims and results - Twinning project
  data reporting on acidification, eutrophication
  and integrated pollution
• Second part
• EPER (European Pollutants Emission Register)
• Introduction of the EPER website
• Future perspective E-PRTR regulation (European
  Pollutant Release and Transfer Register)

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Twinning project Data reporting on
acidification, eutrophication and integrated
pollution

• TWINNING Partners
• Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology
  Agency and
• Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Latvia
• Austrian Federal Environment Agency
• Technical University of Lund, Sweden
• Further involved Latvian institutions
• State Environment Service
• Environment State Bureau

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General data

• Project start 25 April 2005
• Project end 24 October 2006
• Last activities July 2006

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Mandatory results

• Component 1 EPER
• Preparation and submission of the Latvian EPER
  report (European Pollutant Emission Register)
• Component 2 Critical Loads
• Calculation and reporting of Critical Loads of
  pollutants on ecosystems
• (acidification caused by Sulphur,
  eutrophycation caused by Nitrogen and Sulphur)

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EPEREuropean Pollutant Emission Register
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What is EPER?

• EPER decision
• MS have to produce a report on emissions of
  Industial Facilities
• Emissions into air and water, if exceeding the
  threshold
• 50 pollutants on ANNEX 1 list of EPER decision
• Which Industrial Facilities?
• large and medium-sized industrial plants which
  are listed in Annex I of the IPPC Directive, and
  which exceed specified emission thresholds

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What is EPER ?

A process
A product
A start...
Towards the European PRTR

• EPER Database
• EPER Website

Facility
Collect
Country
Report
CEC/EEA
Compile
Communicate
Public
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EPER

• since 23 February 2004
• on the internet
• (250,000 visits in first year)
• www.eper.cec.eu.int

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EPER

• 10,000 industrial facilities all over Europe
• (15 Member States Norway Hungary)
• Emissions to air and water of 50 pollutants
• from 2001

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EPER-Website

• The public can search industrial facilities
• in its neighbourhood !!!
• by name of facility, city, postcode, activity,
  pollutant, member stateand location!

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EPER website

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Search - pollutants
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Copper 1
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Copper 2
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Copper 3
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Search pollutant and act
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Result pollutant and act
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Search - map
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Map search 1
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Map search 2
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Map search 3
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Summary facility
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Details facility
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European PRTR

• Time Table publication on internet
• Feb. 2004 data of 2001
• Nov. 2006 data of 2004
• Oct. 2009 data of 2007 E-PRTR
• April 2010 data of 2008 E-PRTR
• yearly