RAMEA in Malopolska Compilation and applications

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RAMEA in MalopolskaCompilation and applications
SCPnet Conference 2008 4-5 March, Birmingham (UK)
Malgorzata Góralczyk Polish Academy of Sciences
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Malopolska overview

• Economy and Society
• 3 271 206 inhabitants, area 1 518 287 ha, 215
  inhabitants/km2
• GDP per capita 2005 - 21 989 PLN 5463 EUR (GDP
  Poland100, Malopolska 85.3),
• Unemployment rate 11.3 (2006)
• Key sectors manufacturing (food, electrical and
  optical equipment, metals), trade, real estate
  tourism gaining importance
• Long term goal of Environmental protection policy
  in Malopolska is the compliance with the air
  quality norms by consequent reduction of air
  pollution and emissions
• promotion of ecological sources of energy
• reduction of coal use and increase of renewable
  energy sources use
• improving transport infrastructure (roads)

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Before the RAMEA project...

• Regional NAMEAs not available
• NAMEA for Poland prepared by the National
  Inventory Centre (not easily available)
• NAMEA for Poland prepared at Uniwersytet Lódzki
  as a basis for modelling (M. Plich The
  construction and application of
  economic-ecological models)
• EPEA compilation

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Benefits from the project

• Know-how
• Pilot RAMEA for Malopolska
• Interest from other regions
• Project results promotion at the local/regional
  conferences
• Implementation
• Coordination of data and analysis needs
• RAMEA book in Polish

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RAMEA for Malopolska
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RAMEA application environmental charges

• Program to improve emissions control system and
  fees collection
• The system of environmental charges (fees and
  fines) was introduced to internalise external
  costs and promote incentives for sustainable
  development.
• The charges are levied on
• gases and dusts released to the air,
• waste waters released to soil and water,
• cooling waters,
• waste landfilling,
• underground and surface water drawing,
• rain waters from the contaminated areas.

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System of environmental charges

• Announcement of the Ministry of the Environment
  (updated annually)
• The database is created by the Marshal Office for
  recording the reports from the companies about
  the fees for using the environment
• The reporting duty is compulsory for every entity
  that conducts the activities that lead to
  emissions
• The database consists of information divided into
  4 modules
• emissions to air (gases and dusts emitted to the
  air incl. emissions during the handling of the
  gasoline emissions from boilers fuelled by coal,
  coke, wood, oil, or gas combustion of fuels in
  engines poultry breeding )
• water drawing
• sewer emissions to water and soil
• landfilled wastes
• The reporting is based on the standardised forms

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Air emissions - unit fees per 1 kg in 2007 (1)

• 305.05 PLN (80.64 EUR)
• Arsenic
• Asbestos
• Benzo/a/pyrene
• Nickel
• Polichlorodibenzo-p-dioxins, polichlorodibenzofura
  ns
• 152.53 PLN (40.32 EUR)
• Mercury
• 1,1,1 trichloromethane
• Cadmium
• Chloro-fluoro-hydrocarbons (CFCs)
• Halons (1211, 1301, 2402)
• Polychlorinated biphenyls
• 108.95 PLN (28.80 EUR)
• Cerium

• 43.58 PLN (11.52 EUR)
• Chromium
• Cobalt
• 34.88 PLN (9.22 EUR)
• Acrylonitrile
• Lead
• 17.44 PLN (4.61 EUR)
• Manganese
• Vinyl chloride
• 14.53 PLN (3.84 EUR)
• Bismuth
• 10.26 PLN (2.71 EUR)
• Molybdenum
• 6.97 PLN (1.84 EUR)
• Benzene

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Air emissions - unit fees per 1 kg in 2007 (2)

• 4.57 PLN (1.21 EUR)
• Tin
• Zinc
• 3.06 PLN (0.81 EUR)
• Hydro-chloro-fluoro-hydrocarbons (HCFC)
• 2.31 PLN (0.61 EUR)
• Carbon tetrachloride
• 1.69 PLN (0.45 EUR)
• Carbon disulfide
• 1.19 PLN (0.31 EUR)
• Cyclic-, aromatic hydrocarbons and its
  derivatives
• Coal and graphite dusts
• Fertilizer dusts
• Silicon dusts (above 30 of free silica)
• Surfactant dusts

• 1.02 PLN (0.27 EUR)
• Aliphatic alcohols and its derivatives
• Aliphatic aldehydes and its derivatives
• Amines and its derivatives
• Azo , azoxy, nitro, nitroso compounds
• Cyclic-, aromatic alcohols and its derivatives
• Cyclic-, aromatic aldehydes and its derivatives
• Ethers and its derivatives
• Halons
• Heterocyclic compounds
• Inorganic acids, - salts and anhydrides
• Isocyclic compounds
• Ketones and its derivatives
• Metallic elements and its compounds
• Non-metal oxides
• Non-metal salts
• Non-metallic elements
• Oil mist
• Organic acids, - salts and anhydrides

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Air emissions - unit fees per 1 kg in 2007 (3)

• 0.47 PLN (0.12 EUR)
• Brown coal dusts
• Other dusts
• Polymer dusts
• 0.43 PLN (0.11 EUR)
• Nitrogen oxides
• Sulphur dioxide
• 0.35 PLN (0.09 EUR)
• Ammonia

• 0.29 PLN (0.08 EUR)
• Cement-limestone and fireproof material dusts
• Dusts from fuel incineration
• 0.23 PLN (0.06 EUR)
• Carbon dioxide
• Methane
• 0.11 PLN (0.03 EUR)
• Aliphatic hydrocarbons and its derivatives
• Carbon monoxide

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Future RAMEA applications

• Multi-faceted analysis of the industry/households
  environmental impact in the region
• possibility of focused action on the basis of
  analysis performed
• structural funds allocation
• Possibility of application of RAMEA in other
  regions
• Reorganisation of environmental statistics in
  Poland
• Reporting duties (EU, EUROSTAT, IPCC)
• Coordination of data collection
• Rise in the environmental consciousness on the
  regional decision-making level