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2. 02.06.2005 | Folie 2 Reporting according to pollution registers Experiences in Austria Mag. Daniela Wappel

3. 02.06.2005 | Folie 3 Overview What is EPER? Implementation in Austria Difficulties and lessons learnd Future goals

4. 02.06.2005 | Folie 4 What is EPER? EPER is the European Pollutant Emission Register - the first European-wide register of industrial emissions into air and water Legal basis: EPER Decision on the implementation of a European pollutant emission register (EPER) (2000/479/EC)

5. 02.06.2005 | Folie 5 What is EPER? Reporting Requirements: Releases to air and water 50 Pollutants 58 Activities Reporting every three years First reporting year:2000 Second reporting year: 2004

6. 02.06.2005 | Folie 6 What is EPER? Most important goals of EPER enhance the awareness for environmental pollution compare emissions from individual facilities trigger industry in improving environmental performance enable the Commission and national governments to monitor the trends in annual emissions of large and medium sized industrial facilities provide scientists, local authorities and policy makers with a solid Europe wide emission database.

7. 02.06.2005 | Folie 7 Implementation in Austria http://www.umweltbundesamt.at/eper

8. 02.06.2005 | Folie 8 Implementation in Austria EPER-Regulation EPER Reporting of pollutant emission loads for the development of a European Pollutant Emission Register Federal Gazette: BGBl. II Nr. 300/2002

9. 02.06.2005 | Folie 9 Implementation in Austria Data flow EPER Facility Competent Authority Governor Ministry of Environment Ministry of Economic Affairs Umweltbund esamt European Commission / EEA Public www.umweltb undesamt.at

10. 02.06.2005 | Folie 10 Involved Institutions ~ 440 facilities ~125 local authorities 9 regional authorities 9 governors Ministry for Environment / Economic Affairs Umweltbundesamt EPER data flow

11. 02.06.2005 | Folie 11 Umweltbundesamt Tasks = federal environment agency = environmental expert authority consistency and completeness check technical implementation and maintainance of electronic EPER System submit EPER data to European Commission make EPER data publicly available

12. 02.06.2005 | Folie 12 Technical Implementation Electronic EPER System web forms accounts for operators and authorities different access rights + helpdesk + information workshops + internet interface

13. 02.06.2005 | Folie 13 Lessons learned main difficulties of the facilities identify / define EPER facility respectively reporting unit identify and distinguish between Main Annex I activity and other Annex I activities calculate or estimate the annual emissions differences between reporting obligations

14. 02.06.2005 | Folie 14 Lessons learned Main difficulties of the authorities unusual and strange way of interaction Plausibility check Without standardised guidelines reports did not contain any information about the methodologies the operators used to calculate the annual emissions time frame additional burden for the experts to their usual work

15. 02.06.2005 | Folie 15 Further development EPER  PRTR UN-ECE Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) under the Aarhus Convention signed by EU + 15 MS in Kiev at the Ministerial Conference „Environment for Europe“ on 21 May 2003

16. 02.06.2005 | Folie 16 Further development EPER  PRTR EPER Releases to air and water 50 Pollutants 58 Activities Reporting every three years PRTR Releases to air, water and land 90 Pollutants 65 Activities annual reporting Off-site transfers of waste Diffuse sources Public participation in decision making

17. 02.06.2005 | Folie 17 Further development EPER  PRTR  EPER has to be upgraded to a comprehensive European PRTR  EPER will be replaced by the PRTR

18. 02.06.2005 | Folie 18 Benefits of e-Reporting better transparency less mistakes clearer understanding and communications between respondents and regulatory authorities more timeliness increase costs

19. 02.06.2005 | Folie 19 Future Goals substitute paper based systems for reporting and administration with modern innovative electronic structures harmonise the reporting obligations on environmental information on national and international level minimize the burden for operators and authorities

20. 02.06.2005 | Folie 20 Future Goals Consider technical requirements of electronic reporting systems in new national environmental laws. Data Management System links several reporting obligations (waste, water, air) use synergies minimize the amount of data operators have to report Recorde data once

21. 02.06.2005 | Folie 21 International Solution EUDIN Crossborder Waste Transport EC Shipment Regulation (EEC) No 259/93: Notifiy Transport Notify Waste Receipt Notify Waste Recovery/Disposal Actors: Consigner (Exporter) Consignee (Importer) Competent Authority of Export Competent Authority of Import Competent Authority of Transit Paper based process: Time-consuming Error-prone

22. 02.06.2005 | Folie 22 Message Broker Data recorded only once, Data is electronically distributed to other actors – no human intervention Increase Speed Increase Accuracy Decrease Errors Decrease Cost

23. 02.06.2005 | Folie 23 International Solution Seamless integration requires Agreed-upon Document Standards Agreed-upon Business Choreography Proprietary solutions are ineligible International accepted standards are required UN/CEFACT offers solutions Reuse of document building blocks: Core Components Methodology to develop consistent business processes: UN/CEFACT‘s Modeling Methodology (UMM)

24. 02.06.2005 | Folie 24 Thank you for your attention! daniela.wappel@umweltbundesamt.at

25. 02.06.2005 | Folie 25 EPER questionnaire Registration

26. 02.06.2005 | Folie 26 EPER questionnaire Facility

27. 02.06.2005 | Folie 27 EPER questionnaire Reporting Unit

28. 02.06.2005 | Folie 28 EPER questionnaire Reporting Unit

29. 02.06.2005 | Folie 29 EPER questionnaire Activities

30. 02.06.2005 | Folie 30 EPER questionnaire Emissions into Air

31. 02.06.2005 | Folie 31 EPER questionnaire Emissions into Water