EUROPEAN POLLUTION

A brief report is presented on the decision made by the European Commission regarding the implementation of a European Polluting Emissions Register and on two proposals, which aim to regulate and reduce water and air pollution. The decision requires member states to report to the Commission on emissions from all individual facilities with one or more specific activities. Some of the substances classified as pollutants are listed and the national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants agreed for each member country are indicated. 

Tarrason, L., S. Turner, and I. Flpisand, Estimation of Seasonal Dimethyl Sulphide Fluxes over the North Atlantic Ocean and Their Contribution to European Pollution Levels, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 11623-11639 (1995). 

The European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER) is the establishment of a European register with comparable data on die emissions from individual activities covered by die Council Directive 96/61/EC, known as die IPPC Directive. It is a useful monitoring tool and a suitable instrument for public dissemination of emission data and its effectiveness could be seen in die European effort to achieve die goals set in Agenda 21 of die UNECE Conference in Rio de Janeiro (1992), in the IPPC Directive (1996), and in die UNECE Aarhus Convention (1998). 

On January 25, 2000, die committee referred to in Article 19 of IPPC Directive gave a favorable opinion of a draft Commission Decision on die implementation of a European Pollutant Emission Register. The Commission Decision (2000/479/EC), to be referred to as die EPER Decision, was adopted on July 17, 2000. According to the EPER Decision, member states shall report to the Commission on emissions into ah and water from all individual facilities widi one or more activities as mentioned in Annex I to the IPPC Directive. The provided data will be made publicly accessible and disseminated on the Internet. Specifically, EPER is a publicly accessible register with emission data diat enables the Commission and national governments to monitor the trends in annual emissions of large industrial activities covered by Annex I of the IPPC Directive (Commission Decision, 2000). 

Commission Decision 2000/479/EC on the implementation of an European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER), Official Journal of the European Communities, L 192/36, July (2000)... 

There is an increasing offer of spatial in your neighbourhood type information. The European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER), online since 2004, is the first European-wide register of industrial emissions into air and water. In addition, real-time ozone concentrations are provided in interactive maps via ozone-webs and geo-referenced information is also available on biodiversity and protected habitats. 

Data on the emission of (mixtures of) chemicals may also be obtained from the European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER), which is the first European-wide register of industrial emissions into air and water (http //eper.ec.europa.eu/ (last accessed November 2009)). EPER gives access to information on the annual emissions of approximately 9200 industrial facilities in the member states of the European Union as well as Norway mostly for the year 2001, and approximately 12,000 facilities for the year 2004. It has the option to group information by pollutant, activity (sector), air and water (direct or via a sewerage system), or country, and even gives access to data on individual facilities. Such information thus has value for developing realistic emission scenarios for diffuse release and also at the local scale. 

European Pollutant Emission Register, EPER Review Report June, - Final Report, CEC, 2004, p.25. http //eper.eea.europa.eu/eper... 

Commission Decision of 17 July 2000 on the implementation of a European pollutant emission register (EPER) according to Article 15 of Council Directive 96/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC), Official Journal of the European Union, EC, 2000, No.L.192. 

European Pollutant Emission Register, EPER Review Report June CEC, Final Report, 2004. 

Pollution Handbook The Essential Guide to UK and European Pollution Control Legislation, National Society for Clean Air and Environmental protection, Brighton, UK, 1997, p.5. 

The Spanish version of the European Pollutant Emissions Register (EPER). The AACC have the legal competence to receive information on emissions from industrial complexes. After validating this information, AACC sent it to the MINAM. Only the emissions data for 2001 were available from this source. 

In July 2000, the European Commission announced that it would set up a European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER). This will cover emissions of 50 pollutants from about 20 000 industrial plants across the European Union. The EPER has the following main objectives ... 

E-PRTR European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register GMP Global monitoring plan... 

Decision 166/2006/EC created the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) [41]. The E-PRTR is the new Europe-wide register that provides easily accessible key environmental data from industrial facilities in European Union Member States and in Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. It replaces and improves the previous EPER. 

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