German PRTR Report 2007 Sabine Grimm Barbara Rathmer Holger Böken Federal Environment Agency 23.11.2018

Table of contents Opening national PRTR Data collection Data flow Technical problems of the data report Solutions and agreements 23.11.2018

Opening of the national PRTR Successful Opening of national PRTR on 3.6.09 in Berlin link: www.prtr.bund.de in June 09 about 56500 visitors media coverage including websites and blogs 23.11.2018

Opening of the national PRTR Successful Opening of national PRTR on 3.6.09 in Berlin link: www.prtr.bund.de in June 09 about 56500 visitors map search OGC conform WMS available OSM as background map consequent usage of Open Source software 23.11.2018

PRTR 2007 EPER 2004 23.11.2018

Opening of the national PRTR Successful Opening of national PRTR on 3.6.09 in Berlin link: www.prtr.bund.de in June 09 about 56500 visitors map search OGC conform WMS available OSM as background map consequent usage of Open Source software 23.11.2018

Data collection – Players in Germany About 10.000 operators 16 Federal States and Federal State Coordinators Many competent authorities i.e. Federal State of Sachsen with 17 competent authorities Many other authorities (air, water, waste, mining, landfills...) Federal Environment Agency (FEA) as national Focal Point and Operator of the National Register and the PRTR Public Portal 23.11.2018

Data flow - Overview Industry Federal State FEA EU Operator FEA Quality assurance / National Register Collection Confidentiality Federal - Operator FEA EEA / COM authority Data flow 23.11.2018

Data flow - View of Federal State Industry Federal State FEA Other auth. EU Other auth. water waste Other auth. air Comp. Operator authority Fed. State FEA EEA / COM Operator Coordination Comp.. authority Operator Data flow 23.11.2018

Data flow – Federal States Oth. Auth. e - - Oth. Auth Operator Comp. A. . - Operator Fed. St. Comp. A. Coor. Operator . - Oth. Auth. Oth. Auth. - Oth. Auth. Oth. Auth. Oth..Auth. Operator e Comp. A. . - FEA EU Operator Comp. A. Coor. Fed. St. Operator . - Oth. Auth. Oth.Auth Oth.Auth FEA EEA / COM Operator Comp.A. . - Operator Comp.A. Fed.St.Coor. Operator . Data flow Correction 23.11.2018

Internet Portal www.bund.de Data collection - ePRTR I II III IV V VI BUBE-Online competent authority operator Internet Portal www.bund.de Internet presentation FEA XML3 EU XML1 operator’s software A BUBE-Offline B C Federal State Agency W1 W2 XML2 XML4 TIS other systems BUBE Electronic software tool Nationalwide Online-system Data collection for operator Check up routines for operator and competent authorities Transfer Federal State/FEA by Export/Import XML Integration of other mandatory report Cooperation of FEA, competent authorities, industry

Data collection – Deadline Data delivery Federal State to FEA at 15.2.09 Data delivery FEA to COM at 30.6.09 Extension of time for data delivery to COM at 24.7.09 First correction phase data delivery at 7.9.09 Quality assements in DE 1st round at mai 09 2nd round at mid june 09 3th round at end july 09 4th round at beginning september 09 23.11.2018

Technical problems Confidentiality for pollutants of the same pollutant group (16 facilities) Confidentiality for activities (47 facilities) Limitation of 255 characters in method used / method designation (62 facilities) Missing country code for hazardous waste outside / address recoverer / disposer (91 facilities) Confidentiality for hazardous waste within country or outside country (11 facilities) Other (13 facilities) Upload of 4095 German facilities into CDR Failure of Upload of 240 German facilities into CDR 23.11.2018

Technical Problems - Details - Solution 1. Confidentiality for pollutants of the same pollutant group Error after check up vs validation tool: „A pollutant is not allowed to be reported more than once“ Consequence: no upload into CDR > deletion of 16 facilities Position DE: each confidential pollutant is replaced by respective pollutant group according to COM statement in 2007 Position EU: Reporting sums of pollutants of the same pollutant group Conclusion: argumentation of DE is accepted Agreement PRTR 2008: adaption of German XML Schema kkkkkkkkkk 23.11.2018

Technical Problems - Details 2. Confidentiality for activities Error after check up vs validation tool: „An activity can not be classified as confidential“ Consequence: no upload into CDR > deletion of 47 facilities Position Legal service COM: all information publicly available under the IPPC directive cannot be confidential under PRTR-Regulation Position DE: PRTR-Regulation also covers installations and facilities that are not covered by the IPPC directive, consequently the system must be able handle this situation 23.11.2018

Technical Problems - Details - Solution 3. Limitation of 255 characters in method used/ method designation Error after check up vs validation tool: Incomplete compliance validation – no details! Consequence: no upload into CDR > deletion of 62 facilities DE: field in database both for method used and description EU: field in database set for a maximum of 255 characters Solution PRTR 2008: new field in the German database 23.11.2018

Technical Problems - Details - Solution 4. Missing country code for hazardous waste outside/ address recoverer/disposer Error after check up vs validation tool: Incomplete compliance validation – no details! Consequence: no upload to CDR > deletion 91 facilities DE: bug in german database Solution PRTR 2008: new field in the german database 23.11.2018

Technical Problems - Details - Solution 5. Confidentiality for hazardous waste within country or outside country Missing information within country or outside country Error after check up vs validation tool: Incomplete compliance validation – no details! Consequence: no upload into CDR > deletion of 11 facilities DE: ongoing clarification Solution PRTR 2008: new field in the german database 23.11.2018

Validation tool – incomplete No error warning: limitation of 255 characters in method used/ method designation No error warning: missing country code for hazardous waste outside No error warning: missing river basin district No error warning: missing nace code No error warning: missing geographical coordinate No error warning: missing building number Validation tool needs improvement 23.11.2018

Conclusion Complex data flow due of the federal structure Data flow handled by complex data base Changes in the setup needs ~ 18 months before COM reporting deadline Improvements due to next reporting round DE will deliver list of deleted facilities to COM DE will adapt the XML-Schema and the data model Discussion confidentiality of activities ongoing as legal discussion, but: if just one legal case justified, the COM’s IT-system must be able to handle this situation 23.11.2018

Thank you for attention. Sabine Grimm s. grimm@uba. de www Thank you for attention! Sabine Grimm s.grimm@uba.de www.umweltbundesamt.de 23.11.2018