1. The first Steering Committee on the Project “ POPs monitoring, reporting and information dissemination using Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) in Kazakhstan” Ministry of environmental protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan Centre for Sustainable Production and Consumption Elvira Ibrayeva, Deputy Director of the legislation and international cooperation Department Santiago de Chile 1-4 June 2009 Promoting for Development of the national PRTR in Kazakhstan

2. Existing Legislation base related to PRTR: (AARHUS) Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters Ratification Law of RK of 23.10.2000 No 92-II Environmental Code Chapter 5. Environmental monitoring and cadastres Article 161 - State fund of environmental information includes Pollutant release and transfer register

3. National system of the Environmental reporting Governmental Cadastres of the natural resources Environmental accounting Environmental monitoring

4. Adjustment Regulation Tools related to PRTR - Environmental impact assessment and environmental expertise - Permission’s system - Governmental control system - Environmental monitoring system Environmental statistic system

5. Pilot projects “Toward to PRTR system in Kazakhstan” Main tasks of the project: - To disseminate information about PRTR protocol among business, NGO, government -To prepare recommendation on jointing Kazakhstan to PRTR -To assess the public opinion on PRTR opportunities

6. Business reaction Yes Yes, but it takes time No, in future No Information official bodies Mass Media Meetings with civil society Nothing

7. Business reaction Yes Yes, but it takes time No

8. There is a need to inform civil society about PRTR; To start this activity as soon as possible; To provide round tables, conference, seminars for widely discussion on necessity of jointing Kazakhstan to PRTR Project’s results

9. In September 2007 was launched TACIS Project "Strengthening public participation and civil society support to implementation of Aarhus convention for Central Asia countries (CAC)”. In May 2008 the Kazakh NCC approved pilot projects in Kazakhstan.

10. One of the pilot projects is “Development of the national PRTR in Almaty city” Almaty was chosen as a pilot territory because it’s the biggest city in Kazakhstan and has severe problems with air pollutions. Taking in account that emission from transportation make up about 80% of air pollution in Almaty the activity of the project is focused on analysis of the existing legislative and institutional base for potential including in future in national PRTR in section “Non-point sources of pollution” a component “Emissions from transportation”

11. Main tasks of the pilot project: Analysis of existing legislative and institutional bases for potential including in future in national PRTR in section “Non-point sources of pollution” a component “Emissions from transportation” Analysis of statistical reporting system related to emissions from transportation Analysis of the existing and approved guideline for estimating emissions from urban transportation Comparative analysis of the guideline on estimating emissions from transportation that is used in Kazakhstan with international guidelines and approaches (UNITAR) Work out recommendations on improving the existing guideline on estimation of emissions from urban automobile transportation.

12. At the present time the project is in final stage. It’s planned to discuss at roundtable the following questions: -Recommendations on improving the existing guideline and submit them to the Ministry of Environmental protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan; -What agency (agencies) should make calculation of emissions from transportation and with what periods; -Where the data should be published; -Public access to results of calculations

13. Thank you for your attention Contact information: E-mail: e_ibrayeva@moos.kz