1. Linking and Streamlining Reporting E-PRTR a register for industrial emissions 16 January 2009

2. Industrial emissions: E-PRTR, IPPC and sectoral Directives
Air Quality: EMEP
Water Quality: WISE
surface water
air
Production of paper and board and other primary wood products
Main Annex I activity
Production of pulp from timber or similar fibrous materials
Thermal power plant
Annex I activity
WWTP
Facility P, Operator P
Facility Q, Operator Q A B C F E D
cooling water
Other installation
Non-Annex I activity

3. Shared Environmental Information System
SEIS is a collaborative initiative of the Commission and the EEA together with the MSs, to establish an integrated, shared and sustained information system for environmental information in Europe serving two main purposes:
- improve the sharing of environmental data and information (or data impacting environmental policies) within Europe and provision of services to public policy makers and citizens;
- offer to MSs and EU institutions an efficient system to access environmental data and information to fulfil their reporting obligations related to Community environmental policies and legislation, avoiding duplication of efforts, overlapping and redundancies.

4. SEIS Principles
information should be managed as close as possible to its source
information is provided once and shared with others for many purposes
data and information should be readily accessible to end-users to enable them to access it timely
information should be made available to the public after due consideration of the appropriate level of aggregation, given possible confidentiality constraints, and at national level in the national language(s)

5. Summary main benefits of SEIS
Streamlining of data requirements and data flows
More informed policy decisions
Wider availability of information and better return on investment
Common standards, tools and services
At EU level: it will facilitate considerably the current streamlining efforts of data requirements and flows and data flows including better legislation. The MSs inputs will be more consistent and integrated. This will allow efficient EU-level analysis to inform policy discussions related to environmental issues and sustainable development using tools and services that are already developed under established programmes (eg GMES) or that will be developed due to the SEIS boost. This increase of European capacity will lead to more effective and integrated outputs at both MS and EU levels that can be used as the basis for communicating messages and actions against well-defined policy priorities.
At MS level: They will benefit from the streamlining and priority setting of data requirements and data flows that SEIS will facilitate with less duplication of efforts. The implementation of the SEIS principle 'report once use many' will enable the use of the same information not just by the small thematic or geographic communities of policy makers (<50 people) but by many other users: policy makers in other themes or sectors, informed public, researchers (>10000). This will render MSs investments for monitoring more cost-effective. Furthermore, MSs will benefit from the standards, tools and services that would need to be developed at European level for implementing SEIS (e.g. portals, viewers, information integrator for performing integrated analysis or for creation of metadata). Finally, MSs will benefit from cross-country benchmarking and from the multi-lingual communication that SEIS will enable.
At global level: substantial efficiency gains can be achieved by organising the SEIS in the EU in such a way that allows both MS and the EU to meet their policy commitments and evaluation obligations under the various international conventions and global initiatives. The SEIS will increase the credibility of the EU vis-à-vis international initiatives and programmes related to environmental data collection, management and exploitation such as GEO, GEOSS, Biodiversity conventions etc.

6. SEIS and E-PRTR SEIS and E-PRTR State of Play:
E-PRTR implements SEIS principles:
Electronic reporting,
Storage of information in database
Access to the public through Internet
Potential: Distributed E-PRTR
storage of data in national PRTR
E-PRTR website downloads from national PRTR
based on a network of public information providers sharing environmental data and information

7. What is EPER/European PRTR?

8. based on IPPC Directive
From EPER to E-PRTR
European Pollutant Emission Register
based on IPPC Directive
12,000 facilities
Triennial data (2001 and 2004)
50 substances and 32 different sectors
Threshold values about 90% of the emissions of the industrial facilities
European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register
2007 first reporting year
Annual data from 2009
Point sources emissions - 91 substances (including POPs) emitted from 65 different sectors
Additional information
Off-site transfer of waste and waste water
Emissions caused by accidents on the site
Releases to land
Diffuse emissions

9. System = data flow+quality control+register
The register is cost effective tool for:
Enhance harmonisation of data collection and transfer system
Monitor compliance
Setting priorities (knowledge based decision)
Raising environmental awareness
Existing pollutants inventories
PRTR

10. EPER ( )
POPs
E-PRTR (2007-)
Aldrin
Chlordane
Chlordecone
DDT
Dieldrin
Endrin
Heptachlor
Lindane
Mirex
Toxaphene
Dioxins and Furans
PCBs
Hexachlorobenzene (HCB)
* Hexachlorobenzene (HCB)
* PeCB
PeCB
* PBDE (Penta BDE, Octa BDE)
PBDE (Penta BDE, Octa BDE)
* Endosulphan
* Trifluralin
* SCCPs

11. How does the Register function
Data accessibility:
Tabular queries
Geographical queries
Graph chart
Data download

15. HCB releases to air

16. Data gap analysis I
Getting the numbers to match up:  making sure that what is reported now is based on common data and approaches and has cross checking and reporting on differences
Improving the accuracy of reported data: Includes a focus on actually using facility level data in national estimates and improving national statistics and the use of data from other instruments.
Removing reporting duplication: Focussing on what steps/changes are needed to reduce duplicative/redundant reporting elements.  Will include SEIS type eReporting ideas and some thoughts on E-PRTR and how this is integrated with NECD/CLRTAP National reporting (EMEP Database ) and WFD reporting (WISE Database).

17. Data gap analysis II Releases from diffuse sources
Gathering existing data
91 pollutants / agriculture, aviation, construction, domestic fuel combustion, fossil fuel distribution, SMEs, solvent use-road traffic
Compile an EU-wide inventory
When data is not available > Initiate corresponding reporting

18. A coordinated effort:
MS and operators cooperate to improve the quality of data
Community wide electronic database informs the public about important pollutants emissions, mainly from IPPC installations
Watch-dog: opportunity for the public to submit inputs, comments and information

19. Some further streamlining opportunities
Link and harmonise Facility ID (WISE-PRTR-IPPC-ETS) > SEIS
Traceability
Link numerical and descriptive data to spatial data > Integration of different database
Apportionment: point source (UWWT~IOWWT) and diffuse sources identification
Link emissions releases (discharge) and accidental releases (losses) into water bodies with discharge point ID and coordinates
Compare aggregated data (WISE) and disaggregated data (PRTR)
Eu-wide inventory for diffuse source (multi-pollutants, multi-sectors) > promote
POPs trends

20. Conclusions
EPRTR Regulation Art.5 & 9 contains rules for determining how to collect data
Operator is responsible for data collection and quality assurance
MS responsible for quality assessment
Best available information
Internationally approved methodologies
Importance of measurement for waste and water
Traceability
Data transformation according to different user needs (data aggregation) > POPs
Avoid duplicating reporting (SEIS and streamlining opportunities)

21. For more information…
DG ENV industrial emissions website
EPER >E-PRTR website
WISE
EMEP

22. Thanks for your attention
Dania Cristofaro
DG Environment - Directorate C Climate Change&Air Unit 4 Industrial Emissions & Protection of the ozone layer