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Guidance Document for the implementation of the European PRTR
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| Resource Type: |
document --> policy documents
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| Country: |
European Union
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| Year: |
2006 |
| Availability: |
May 2006
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| Author 1/Producer: |
European Commission Directorate-General for Environment
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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| Publisher: |
European Commission
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| Publisher City: |
Rue de la Loi, Brussels, Belgium
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| Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Contaminants-->Contaminants overview
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Remediation options overview
Diffuse pollution-->Contaminants-->Contaminants overview
Diffuse pollution-->Diffuse pollution overview
Diffuse pollution-->Monitoring
Diffuse pollution-->Processes
Diffuse pollution-->Regulation
Diffuse pollution-->Scales
Diffuse pollution-->Sources
Groundwater protection-->Groundwater protection overview
Sediments
Soil-->Soil Overview
Water and sanitation-->Water and sanitation Overview
Water resources and their management -->Water resources and their management Overview
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| Short description: |
Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the
establishment of a European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register and amending Council
Directives 91/689/EEC and 96/61/EC”1 (the ‘E-PRTR Regulation’) was adopted on 18th
January 2006.
This document provides guidance on the various reporting processes as set out in the
E-PRTR Regulation.
The European PRTR (E-PRTR) will implement at EU level the UNECE PRTR Protocol, which
was signed by the European Community and 23 Member States in May 2003 in Kiev and
which is a Protocol to the Aarhus Convention2. The E-PRTR will succeed the European
Pollutant Emission Register (EPER3) under which data were reported for the years 20014 and
2004.
The E-PRTR Regulation aims to enhance public access to environmental information
through the establishment of a coherent and integrated E-PRTR, thereby finally also
contributing to the prevention and reduction of pollution, delivering data for policy makers and
facilitating public participation in environmental decision making.
The Regulation establishes an integrated pollutant release and transfer register at
Community level in the form of a publicly accessible electronic database and lays down rules
for its functioning, in order to implement the UN-ECE Protocol on Pollutant Release and
Transfer Registers and facilitate public participation in environmental decision making, as
well as contributing to the prevention and reduction of pollution of the environment.
This guidance document does not address issues related to the establishment or
implementation of obligations regarding national PRTRs under the UN-ECE Protocol.
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Link to Organisation(s):
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EC European Commission
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 09/08/2007
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