5th Joint UNECE Task Force

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5th Joint UNECE Task Force EIONET Workshop on
Emission Inventories and Projections, 19 October
2004

• Quality aspects
• of
• EPER
• Bernd Mehlhorn

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EPEREuropean Pollutant
Emission Register
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EPER

• EPER is based on Art. 15(3) of IPPC-Directive
  (1996)
• ...and a Commission Decision (2000) on
• the implementation of EPER

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What is EPER ?
A process
A product
A start...

• EPER Data base
• EPER Website

• EPER no.1
• EPER no.2
• E-PRTR 2007

Facility
Collect
Country
Report
CEC/EEA
Compile
Communicate
Public
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EPER

• Rep. year report to Comm. internet
• 2001 June 2003 (15 MS) Feb. 2004
• 2004 June 2006 (25 MS) Nov. 2006
• 2007 Mar. 2009 (E-PRTR) Oct. 2009
• 2008 Dec. 2009 ( ) May
  2010
• E-PRTR European Pollutant Release and Transfer
  Register

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EPER website

• 15 MS NO HU
• 10 000 industrial facilities (IPPC, Annex I)
• 50 pollutants above certain thresholds
  
• Emissions to air and water, Transfer off-
• site by sewers of pollutants in water
• Internet launch on 23 Feb. 2004 (EPER 1)
• www.eper.cec.eu.int

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EPER Guidance Document

• The quality of the reported data is the integral
  result of the seven following aspects
• timeliness, completeness,uncertainty,
• comparability, consistency, transparency
• and the emission determination metho-
• dology (M, C and E).

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EPER Guidance Document

• Class M (measuring)
• emission data are based on measurements
  using standardised or accepted methods often
  additional calculations are needed to convert the
  results of the measurements into annual emission
  data

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EPER Guidance Document

• Class C (calculate)
• emission data are based on calculations
  using nationally or internationally accepted
  estimation methods and emission factors, which
  are representative for the industrial sector

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EPER Guidance Document

• Class E (estimate)
• emission data are based on non-standardised
  estimations derived from best assumptions or
  expert guesses

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EPER Guidance Document (5)

• 8. Reference to available emission
• determination methods
• Atmospheric Emission Inventory
  Guidebook,
• IPCC Guidelines, EEA, US-EPA, UK, Australia,
  OECD, OSPARCOM, IPPC-BREF documents
• ...

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EPER, review report

• All MS have reported
• Electronic validation tools are useful
• EPER data cover often high shares of emissions
• Additional meta-information increases
  usefulness
• High interest of the public

• - Not all countries sub-
• mitted complete data
• - Gaps for landfills, pig and poultry, metal
  surface treatment and some pollutants
• - QA/QC procedures have to be improved (harmo-
• nised methodologies)
• - Translation of website ?

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What to improve ???

• More guidance for the facilities (bottom-up
  approach!!) on
• Which pollutants are relevant (upgraded sector
  specific pollutant lists)?
• Which standard method for a selected pollutant?
• How to find and use international guidelines, as
  e.g. IPCC Guidelines

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EPER

• Support documents !...done under EPER
• 1. Diffuse air emissions from landfills (CH4,
  CO2)
• 2. Air emissions from pig and poultry farms (NH3,
  N2O, CH4, PM10)