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

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

3. Opening of the national PRTR
Successful Opening of national PRTR on in Berlin
link:
in June 09 about visitors
media coverage including
websites and blogs

4. Opening of the national PRTR
Successful Opening of national PRTR on in Berlin
link:
in June 09 about visitors
map search
OGC conform WMS available
OSM as background map
consequent usage of Open Source software

5. PRTR 2007
EPER 2004

6. Opening of the national PRTR
Successful Opening of national PRTR on in Berlin
link:
in June 09 about visitors
map search
OGC conform WMS available
OSM as background map
consequent usage of Open Source software

7. Data collection – Players in Germany
About 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

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

9. 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
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authority
Operator
Data flow

10. Data flow – Federal States
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Correction

11. Internet Portal www.bund.de
Data collection - ePRTR I II
III IV V VI
BUBE-Online
competent authority
operator
Internet Portal
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

12. Data collection – Deadline
Data delivery Federal State to FEA at
Data delivery FEA to COM at
Extension of time for data delivery to COM at
First correction phase data delivery at
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

13. 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

14. 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
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15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

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