E-PRTR dataflows and SEIS in the Netherlands Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Wim van der Maas

2 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 Outline  PRTR in the Netherlands  Process and dataflow  Three systems with useful experiences for SEIS 1.Integrated industrial reporting (e-AER) 2.Internal website with PRTR-partners 3.Aarhus implementation  Lessons Learned  Technology is not the issue, what are the issues?  Standardisation, Version control, What is in it for us?

3 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 Netherlands Pollutant Release & Transfer Register  Since 1974  The national emissions to air, water and soil of 350 pollutants  Two datasets per year (t-2 in March, t-1 in July)  Formal approved by the partners:  Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL)  Statistics Netherlands (CBS)  Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment  the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO).  On behalf of three Ministries  Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM)  Transport, Public Works and Water Management (V&W)  Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV)

4 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008  Overall coordination of the process  (70 emission experts, 10 institutes)  Infrastructure (websites, databases)  Spatial allocation of the national emissions  Report emissions to the Dutch government, EU, UNFCCC  LCP, EPER/E-PRTR, NIR, IIR CLRTAP/NEC, WFD etc.  One exception: Cap & trade emission reports (ETS)  Report emissions to the public   Tasks of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency:

5 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 Emissions of 1000 point sources (IPPC facilities, eAER’s) 650 source categories with national totals and activity levels Divided into 55 work packages (Emission Experts) 5 Task Forces:  Energy sector, industry, waste  Agriculture  Transport  Water  Consumers Data in the PRTR Diffuse sources Calculated individual sources IPPC-facilities (eAER)

6 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 Dataflow PRTR Facilities Internal website All reports e-AER Work package MDB’s Work package MDB’s Work package MDB’s Work package MDB’s Work package MDB’s Work package MDB’s

7 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 Dataflow PRTR Facilities Internal website All reports Public website Embargo sheet e-AER 1 2 3

8 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 Integrated industrial reporting (e-AER) 1  Since 1995 mandatory annual reporting by the industry  Integration of 11 separate questionnaires  250 largest companies voluntary  Questionnaire on paper of 100+ pages (fixed format)  Increasing amount of themes  air, water, waste, energy, noise, safety, soil...  250 (local) authorities for validation  at least 7 copies on paper  Digitised after validation into one database  quality problems

9 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 Integrated industrial reporting (e-AER) 1  An intelligent form (100+ screens)  Many checks and balances  Historical data also shown  A central database with historical and actual data  A web-site to:  Give user support (additional helpdesk)  Reporting of data (to spreadsheets)  Reporting of status information Your password and ID implies the information shown and read or write permission

10 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 Integrated industrial reporting (e-AER) 1  This months we will pass a new law to integrate E-PRTR with the other obligations: -Information on installations (LCP and to calculate national data) -On energy use (LCP, GHG) -15 pollutants with lower thresholds (< 90% coverage) -8 additional pollutants (TSP) -Combustion and process-emissions (GHG) -Biomass CO 2  And a tender to rebuild the e-AER to facilitate the integration of E-PRTR

11 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 Dataflow PRTR Facilities Internal website All reports e-AER Work package MDB’s Work package MDB’s Work package MDB’s Work package MDB’s Work package MDB’s Work package MDB’s

12 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 Internal website with PRTR-partners 2  Only accessible by PRTR-partners (extranet)  Down- en Uploads by the Emission Experts  Version control  Only the expert can upload it’s work package  Many automated checks during uploads  As many down- and uploads as wanted  Automated logging of all uploads  EmissionExplorer for overall checks  After an upload every partner can check ‘the whole picture’  To compare with previous datasets  To analyses trends

13 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 Public website (Aarhus implementation) 3 To inform the public about emission-sources in their neighborhood (and, by doing so, increasing the involvement of the public in validation of emissions  Bilingual  Integration of point sources and diffuse emissions  Integrated compartments (air, air IPCC, soil, water indirect and direct)  Maps per emission source, 5*5 km grid, per community (municipalities), water catchment area etc.  Emission Explorer, only one dataset, no activity data  All methodologies used, detailed exports

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38 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008  350 pollutants  650 source categories  1000 point sources  400 communities, thousands grid-cells …….  emissions  emission maps  200 methodology reports Public website (Aarhus implementation) 3

39 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008  350 pollutants  1250 source categories  1000 point sources  400 communities, thousands grid-cells …….  emissions  emission maps  200 methodology reports Maximum transparency? Public website (Aarhus implementation) 3

40 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 Technology is not the issue  Store once use many  Webservices / Central database  Capacity  PRTR 100,000,000 emissions  Ipod  Complete GIS Europe on street level 

41 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 What are the issues?  Standardisation

42 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 Datamodel ER Spatial allocation Pollutant hierarchy National emissions Source Categorisation Waste Datasets Activity- data Compart- ments Work packages Reporting obligations Installations & stacks Facility emissions & activity levels Facilities Competent authorities

43 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 What are the issues?  Standardisation  Just finished a study to explain the CO 2 -differences between ETS, E-PRTR, NIR-CRF  Version control (continuously updated!)  Timing of the various obligations  Process is dominated by the UNFCC GHG inventory  What is in it for us? (to get people moving)  Focus communication of SEIS  Business to Government (no)  Local Government to National Government (no)  National Government to EU (yes)  EU to the public (…)

44 E-PRTR and SEIS, Wim van der Maas, 2 Dec 2008 Concepts we benefited from  The owner has control  Central data-model  No storage of redundant information  Pro: consistency guaranteed  Contra: storage at the lowest level  Source categorisation  Very strict version control  Two datasets, always ‘JIT’, harmonise data  Forbid the use of spreadsheets for data storage or as a reporting tool